The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-26
CALLS FOR A NEW PARTY.

CALLS FOR A NEW PANTY.
\ good many voices are being raised
in the East at the present time in favor
of the organization of n new National
party. Mr. Ryerson w. Jennings con
tributes a plea in this direction TO the
New York Evening Post. claiming that
"'if the time is not ripe for new po-
litical party, it surely never Will be.
He claims that five million Democrats
are heartsick and weary over the action
of the Democrats III Congress who
came 30 the support of Speaker Cannon
in the recent assault upon him and
upon the House rules. He claims that
there is IN equal army of Republicans
who are dsgustcd with their party
tactics, citing the vote of Republican
Representatives against the rules as
proof in that direction He shows that in
the great voting centers OF Sthe East the
partv name counts for nothing, but is
simply used by one boss or the other
for the purpose of Doodle and self
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Mr.. Jennings draws especial attcn-
tiou TO the fact that in the Presidential
campaign of last year there was really
little TO choose between the National
platforms of the two great parties.
And he undertakes TO show that by
reason Of this coming together of the
two chief parties to the neglect of the
real issues before the people, the people
arc discontcnted with both and are
ready for the formation of a new
party. He gives instances Of the turn
ing down of various officials by their
own party, both Republican and Demo
people have lost confidence III both
parties and those who stand as the
representatives and spokcSmcn OF those
parties.
We beg to suggest that the chief
reason given by Mr. Jennings for the
formation Of third party has already
been anticipated in Utah. Here, by
reason of the neglect Of both Of the
old parties Of the vital issues at stake
here, the third party which hc calls
| for was organized IN Salt Lake in 1904,
! Both of the old parties here, as in the
East, but moro conspicuously here
than in the East, because the grievance
was greater and the neglect of the old
parties more shameful shamcfully ig
norcd the main issues and the loyal pco-
| pie of this community assembled them
selves together 10 speak for loyalty,
! for the equal enforcement of the laws,
for the keeping of pledged faith and
for squarely meeting the vital issues be-
| fore the people, There was and is here
"A corrupt cccleslasticism which AFRO
! gantly dominates in all public affairs,
in the civil and municipal governments,
III politics, in business, and in the social
affairs of the people Both of the old
parties seemed TO have no more fcrvent
desire than to get under the shadow of
| that ccclesiasticism and pick up the
crumbs and half -gnawed bones which
might be thrown from the priestly
table. The spirits Of thousands of coun.
try-loving men and women revoltcd at
the nauseous and seIviIc attitude of
the two main parties toward that ag
gressivc and oppressive hicrarchic rule.
They therefore came out of the old
parties, forming themselves into a new
party called the American party. This
American party is the party Of
progress. of reform, Of clean business
methods, of loyalty. and Of aspiration
toward purity Of life and honor in
public affairs.
If the people of the East have any
genuine desire TO form a new party
they can form it, basing their organiza.
ton on the same lines as those laid
down by the American party here, and
affiliate with the American party for
the best interests of the Republic
We believe, as Mr., Jennings states
that the time is ripe for the completion
Of the organization Of a new party
I throughout the United States. And the
people Of the United States at large
can do no better work for themselves
and for their country than to affiliate
with the American party Of Utah and
spread its principles throughout the
Union.
With lead, wool, and hides on the