The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-08-27
PROVO CITY.
POLITICAL HARMONY.

necessary 10 success III pOllGlCs. a ~
htical party is an aggregation of indi- |
yiduals acting together for the accom-
plishing of one object. All the MEM
bers Of any party do not think alike at
first, but they get together, and if IN
earnest for the welfare of their party
will discuss different subjects each |
from ms own standpoint, giving due
weight to the opinion or judgment OF
his fellow, and after full discussion
uuite upon the form of expressing the
consensus of opinion of whole, or the
Judgment OF policy of the majority,
and this being done, all working to-
gether for the common end, on the
lines marked out by the majority.
Our primaries or other meetings OF
voters are very important meetings. 1t
is there every one alike has the right
and opportunity to express his views;
they may be crude, unwise. immature,
or even wrong, but that is the place
for their utterance, and ii needful cor
rection, or for preparation for their
development.
Primaries are like the meetings for
practice of members of band of music
who have to perform together in pub
lie. 1t is there that they must learn
harmony. One may be irstclass
performer, but his instrument may be
a shade out Of tone which will be in
stantly discovered when he practices
with his co-performers. 1t is the i'm
perative duty of every member to at
tend every band practice, not merely
to learn tunes but to practice
upon them 30 as to learn to
soften harsh notes, to secure
an uniform degree of loudness In
each passage, correct every defect in
his own performance, and every one
learn to fit in his proper place, at the
right time in such manner as to Gre
ate the greatest harmony Of a diversity
of instruments, all sounding simultan-
eously. If the leader or any member
is an egotist who is constantly sound
ing his own horn" in and out of sea-
son, although be may be very good
sololst, he will be nuisance in a band.
He must learn to attune himself TO his
fellows, if together they expect to dis
course sweet music.
The most fruitful source of diSsen-
p,,A.ssNssA pSnAUlOS Io- we hdSo eoo
many solOists-too many men who as
pire to Office by 'tootiDg theif own
horns" too many slate-makers, too
little assertion of the masses of the
people at their primaries.
This is especially noticeable In the
republican party. The sweet music of
the Tribune is drowned in an effort to
extinguish the "Trumbo' of republic
canism. New organs" are making day
aud night hideous all over the state, in
an effort to make people believe that
the quintessenee of melody is to be
found in the bass notes of "silver
Trumbo" as though all the other in
struments in their band were only
brass and most terribly out OF tune
when they do not harmonize with its
discordant brsying.
We are attuning the instrumen is of
democracy now. We are about to ap-
pear before the public at Ogden on the
5th proximo Next Saturday night we
will select our performers for that oc-
casion, and perhaps we may choose
the tunes we want them to play. 1t
will be a good time to practice to-
gether, or at least to sound the key
note of the music we desire them to
perform on that occasion. If in the
view of a majority We desire them to
suggest the names of men for U. S. |
senators, let US say SO, II we desire
them to keep silent on that subject, let
us tell them not to play that tune. If |
we have q choice OF men for any or all
of our state officers let them know our
choice. If for any reason we prefer to /
delegate our expression of choice to
their judgment, let us say so.
Democrats, meet in your primaries
and elect your delegates and tell
them what you dele7ate them to do,
and after we have discussed the situa-
tion and every man and women who
has matured views differently from his
neighbor, ii there are any such, has
aired his or heI views, let US get close
together in perfect accord, and send
cur delegation solid phalanx armed
10 the teeth W ith the invincibie armor
of an united pop pular will.