The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-03-11
No Claim On Either.

The Liberals of Utah are invited by
their organ to do some hard thinking. y
That is. the so-called Liberal Republicans
are so invited; it is not clear whether any
other members of that faction are in
cluded, but we should Judge not They
are told that Kit is probable if they want
any friends they will have to look else
where for them than among the so-calIed
Republicans of the territory"
This has special reference to Office
holding. 1t is elected by some alleged
facts in regard to applications for official
positions. Governor THOMAS OF course,
is patted on the back, although it is stated
that through his appointment, straight
Republicans control every territorial
board.7 The grievance appears to be that
in official appointments Republicans do
not recognize liberals as members OF
their party.
Well, why should they? Nothing is
clearer than that the Liberal faction in
Utah is separate and distinct organiza-
ton from both the Republican and the
Democratic parties. The Democrats are
even more pronounced, ii possible, than
the Republicans in repudiating the claims
of Liberals who pretend to belong to their
party. The Chicago convention illus
trates and emphasizes that.
AT one time there might have been some
show of consistency in the claim that
members of the two great parties were
united on a local issue. But that day is
gone. The conditions have changed.
The reason, or excuse, whichever you
please, for the fusion of these discordant
elements no longer exists. The faction
which remains OF the party that fought
for local purpose, keeps on its war
paint and fourishes its weapons when
the battle is long since over and even it's
smoke has passed away.
Sometimes, in various parts of the
country, Democrats and Republicans will
unite to effect municipal reform, or cor
rect some temporary local wrong. They
are separate and apart on general princi-
pies and party interests, but fuse on a
special occasion to meet some emergency
requiring men to combine without refer
ence to party affiliations. But when that
purpose is effected they go back where
they each belong. That is not the case
with the Liberal faction. It is a separate
and continuous organization. It opposes
Republicanism and Democracy alike. 1t
not only stands in that capacity on city
and county affairs, but last fall fought
the Democratic and Republican parties on
the election OF a Delegate to Congress.
Its members, therefore, have no right to
recognition by either party. Not until
they come out and are separate and have
no connection with the obnoxious thing,
can they be regarded as anything but
Liberals who are neither one thing nor
the other. Neither Democratic flesh, nor
Populist fish, nor Republican fowl. They
are just Liberals, nothing more.
For this reason both Republicans and
Democrats are justified in repudiating and
opposing the efforts of Liberals to obtain
offices in the gift of the people or the ap-
pointment of some public functionary.
And it is simply one more specimen OF
Liberal gall when any of them seeks to
gain position as a Democrat or ReDub-
lican, or pretends that one Of IL = has a
c'-i-~ nrnr e'+i-~v ply