The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-11
A SUDDEN CONVERSION.

A SUDDEN CONVERSION.
1t is gratifying to learn that. some
of the best and truest men of the
Liberal party, considering the full
situation, declare that the time has
come when a full trial of the people of
Utah on the American plan should be
made" That is what their organ has
to say upon the subject and it adds:
I'VE subscribe to that view" This is
very quick change of heart on the
part of our contemporary, and sug-
gests the idea that it is as sudden as
that conversion which it has been ac-
customed to charge up to- the old
Peoples Party as having occurred in
Single night"
1t suggests another familiar saying:
Let there be a test Of sincerity"
That the best and truest men of the
party mean what they say, and are
sincere in their desire to dissolve the
faction that has held out SO long
against the general sentiment, we have
no disposition to doubt The sincerity
of the Tribune, however, ought to be
tested and it should be put on pro-
baton before its protestations are
accepted as genuine. 1t is apt to cry
dissolution to-day and cohesion to-
morrow. 1t shifts it's position and
tactics with the occasion, and it's sud
den repentance is open to general
suspicion.
On Thursday it warned men with
Republican instincts" to mot pay any
attention to the vote throughout Utah
which has possibly given the territory
a Republican legislature" On Friday
it pointed out that fact as 1.-The germ
of great hope" and as proof that
the people voted for a Republican
legislature though their leaders were
anxious for statehood through Demo-
cratic sources. One day it rallied at
the people as voting as ordered by
their leaders. and the next as having
done some thinking for themselves.
First it declares the people were
"dragooned by the church into voting
contrary to their belief in their best
interests" and second that 1.-The re-
turns indicate that the hands of the
church were withheld and the people
voted precisely as they felt"
There is another reason why the
Tribune's sudden conversion may be
taken cum grano sails. That is, its ad-
vice to "the best and truest men in
the Liberal party" to try division as
IAN experiment" and to be on the
alert so as to appeal to the Ameri-
can sentiment again. or, in other
words, to run UP the Liberal black flag
after it has been pulled down. In it's
own language: '1f they lower it now
and events establish that it was too
soon, they will raise it again"
That is the sort of tactics we might
expect from this source, because it is
what it accused the Peoples party of
contemplating when the dissolution of
that organization was determined on
after many debates extending over two
or three years time The Peoples par
ty was entirely disbanded; the Liberal
party should make its dissolution also
complete. If that course is decided
upon, the Tribune will no longer be the
organ of the dying faction and it's
shilly shally advice will not be needed.
We recognize this movement as gen
uine on the part of 1.-THE best and
truest men of the Liberal party" and
we are sure they will be welcomed into
the Democratic and Republican par
ties with which they will severally af-
filate. And when evidences of sin
cerity are offered by the late Liberal
organ and persons of its ilk, after
awhile they may be received into fell
lowship as Republicans, Democrats or
Populists or what not. 1t is very graf
flying to know that the end of Liber-
alism is so near.