The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-31
DON'T TRY TO RAISE THE DEAD.

ola antaSonlSmS which were SO DIS
astrous to this territory. Yet that this
is working among a certain class is as
sure as that the great majority of the
people want the dead past buried for
ever.
The agitation of the woman suffrage
question has brought it to the surface.
The correspondence to an eastern paper
from this city has tended to revive this
feeling. 1t comes from no good motive
and it points to no good purpose. The
terms Mormon and Gentle ought to be
expunged frcm the political lexicon, as
those distinctions should be banished
from business and legislation. Why
bring them again into common use?
Let it be distinctly understood that
it is from few Of the former members
of the Liberal party that this effort
has sprung. The responses from the
other side have been made in reply and
in most indignant form. There might
IS well be an understanding on this
subject at once. IF the great work Of
the past few years is to he counted for
nought, that ought TO be known. If it
is an accomplished fact that ought to
be recognized. And there should be no
dubiety about it one way or another.
That the Peoples party divided on
principle, seems 20 us so clear and so
completely established as to be prac-
tically indisputable. If ever people
who worked together in the same party
separated more thoroughly into two di-
visions, we never heard of it. If any
fault can be reasonably found with
them on this score It is with their too
heated zeal when discussing the ques-
tions on which the national parties
differ. There are no more ardent Dem
ocrats or resolute Republicans than are
to be found IN Utah today, and they
were formerly associated closely in the
Peoples Party.
The doubts that have been recently
raised are not only insulting to their
surd in their puerility, in face of the
patent facts. The theory which some
people appear DESTROYS of unfolding
forwhat purpose is best known to
themselves-that the body Of the peo-
pie of Utah can be swayed, hither and
thither, by religious influence welded
by a single individual, cannot be sub
Stimulated by any authenticated fact
If any people on earth have given posi-,
tive proofs of the sincerity of their con-
victions, and their determination to act
upon and stand by those convictions,
1t is the former members OF the old
Peoples party.
The change from a Democratic to
Republican majority Of votes in Utah
is harped upon, as though there was
but single string to be touched in the
tune of the explanation. The influ-
ences that brought much greater
changes all over the United States are
entirely ignored, in accounting for
what took place in Utah.
The unpopularity worked UP against
Cleveland, in which many prominent
Democrats foolishly Joined, the effects
of the hard times, the disastrous de-
cline Of silver, the great fall in the
price Of wool, which helped to down
the Democracy and raise Republican
ism everywhere else, are not con-
sidered in the case of Utah. Oh no. 1t
was church influence" we are told.
The Herald has pointed to the figures
of the elections, which most positively
refute the fiction that Democrats were
turned Republicans by church infiu-
ence," and we call attention to them
again. The Democratic vote of 1892
was retained in 1894 and an addition
was made of over 1000 votes. Can any
thing like that be shown elsewhere?
This was in spite of the church in
f1uence' said to have been used in IA
vor Of the Republican cause.
All this will be thrown away on peo-
pie who have set their heads to think,
or at least their tongues to say, that
church influence" prevailed. They
cannot be convinced against their will.
But candid people will concede that
similar causes operated here that pre-
vailed elsewhere, and they will see that
as a matter Of fact the Democrats of
'92 remained at their post in '94 and
made great accessions to their ranks,
and, therefore, while nearly the whole
country showed great losses to the
Democracy, Utah did not swerve. Re
publican gains came from other
sources-the Liberal party and the
floating element.
There is no good ground for the fear
felt or pretended by few agitators
who are trying to raise the dead The
animosity which was killed by the set
II Of old el,o,,15
revived. We are fairly divided in Utah
on political questions. Call US Demo
Gratis. Republicans or Populists, but do
not bring up the old distinctions
AS to woman suffrage, it has no real
bearing on this unpleasant matter
The women will vote on their own con-
victions. There is no reason to charge
that they will be swayed by any other
influence. The opponents of the meas
ure, not being able to advance any real
arguments. resort to this play upon the
fears of former Liberals. 1t is a shabby
and paltry subterfuge, unworthy of
men who are selected to aid in framing
the fundamental law of the state.
We protest against this unmanly at
tempt to provoke anew the old con-
fict Let those who want to draw out
against the majority of Republicans
and Democrats on an anti-Mormon
crusade, do so, and show their colors
boldly. We appeal to the honorable
ex-Liberals, who have seen the honesty
and sincerity and ardent zeal of their
associates who were formerly of the
Peoples party. TO oppose and expose