The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-09-23

ticket the PEOPLE would have none of it.
The very suspicion that there was faint
of ITibupisns about the original Citizens
movement helped to make it unpopular
If there is one thing more than another
to be emphasized in any sort OF citizens
movement, it is that Liberalism is not to
be in it.
1t is objected that this is craftsmanship.
Stop minute. Reflection will show that
it is nothing of the sort. When men put
themselves forward as Liberals, in an In
dependent convention, that is partisan
ship. They show that they are not in the
Independent movement, that they do not
want to support good men for office ire
spective of party, but to. put forward
Liberals because they are Liberals, and
thus, while claiming that other people
are partisan, they are partisans them
selves.
Partisanship was introduced by Liberals
in the meeting in the Fourth precinct.
If they had attended as in harmony with
the Independent movement they would
not have introduced Liberal politics and
contended for their object from Liberia
standpoints. The very proposition to
make the nominations OF one councilman
from each political party, was introduce
ing partisanship into the movement.
The Liberals who did this have them
selves to thank for being heavily sat
down upon. After attempting partisan
arrangement, to complain of the partisan
ship of the meeting, is but renewed ex-
: l.
Here is the scheme of the Liberal faction
with the Tribune outfit behind it,: Get
each precinct to nominate one council
man from each party. That will secure
a Liberal from the First, Third and
Fourth precincts making three. The
Liberal organization can unite on men OF
their own crowd in the Second and Fifth
precincts numbering six more, that will
make nine or majority of the council
and the trick is played.
Well it will not work. Therefore the
Tribune is in a rage. This might have
been, managed with the committee of
fifty, seeing how it is composed, but it
can not be effected now. So the Liberal
organ is returning to its own, and is now
trying to praise the work of the men
whom few days ago it was burning up
with the fire of it's pretended wrath. And
more than that, it is endeavoring to turn
away from the Independent movement
persons previously known as Liberals,
but who have identified themselves with
the reform organization, and who, it
they are men, will stand to thelr guns
and cast off the T7rib7fne woke
Until the ticket is fully matured TIE
HERALD is waiting and watching. The
Liberal organ is on the back track to its
old gutter. Let the issue be made clear
and sharp. The very need of com bina-
ton of good citizens TO effect municipal
reform is the administration, touse
q mild term, of the officials who
were the special pets and picked speci-
mems of Tribune Liberalism. Against
that class the people are uniting. Their
gorge rises at the thought of any more of
it. If the Democrats and Republicans in
their primaries can endorse the Independ
ent ticket, that will mean the doom of
Liberalism and the deliverance of the
city. The fight will be simplified to a
contest between the remnant of the Lib
eral faction and the united forces of the
better elements of society. Such con-
fiics is awaited with anxious anticipation
by the taxpaying people and they are
eager for the fray.