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Show I"L1BEKaL" LHSEETV. It is amusing, although dfegui t-iup t-iup to witness the wiatb of the "Liberal'- gang over the freedom cxetcbed by tome unterrified "Uberal" n-orkingmen at the poll. They pimply acted with tljat liberty whlcJi "Liberala" have been urging upou members of tiie People's Party for years. But nothing is too vile for the "Liberal" organ to say of them, nor too filthy to jielt them with. They are "scrubs" (that pet epithet of the organ's chief blackguard) black-guard) "traitors," "sneaks," "camp followers," freebooters," "disgruntled "disgrun-tled knaves," "unsavory birds of 111-omcii,'' 111-omcii,'' a "corruptible horde," disgraceful dis-graceful weights," etc They are "to be marked and avoided for al time to come." A "Liberal" writer who had tlie hardihood to intimate that there was a cautc for tlie .dkaHection In the "Liberal" ranks, is aMted "What kind of a scrul are you?" He is accused of inventing something to "plead in justification of their dirt," and of 1-eing "a knave or an nss," while Ids mild utterance! are denominated "gitlierifl!."' All this comes from tlie. 'American gentlemen'' who have ax-umtd the right to dictate the political action of Utah's citizens, citi-zens, and who are continually talk-fKJ,' talk-fKJ,' lug about an imaginary "Church ' f jp M " ' a virtue to be iudejiendent f.5v of the People's Party, why is it a : Kg vice and a crime to be independent ? of lu" mfccalled "Liberal" party? g ' Why i it praiseworthy to cut loose jw! trota tliealleged couuh.' of "priestly aEk.5 leaders," and coudemualilc to throw SHiJ.- f 'le dictation of telf-constituted ImPF i political autocrats? sE- There has been a great deal of fSsf,' nonsense and abuse over thepre- 'BPp tended doriomination of the Church mSh? iu the political atl'uirs of the Tcrrito- flw ry.'We pexk from actual knowledge Sr& when we wy tint the whole pre- ij W lence is without foundation. In ? e" -, plainer language the charge is a He. 5 f i -Hut is tliere auytiiing in the prc- I E 4f feedings of the People's Party that, "i r-5 even by the distortions and perver- t fions common to the "Liberal" . mm i organ, ran be made to rank WSs Willi """ coercive and tyrannous Kr3 conduct of these "Liberal" black. SMS guards who assume to control the I pfg. votes of free citizens? ! jT Who made them the judge of ! Pgr. men's minds and actions? What right have they to say how any citizen shall or should have cast his luihH? Who apjeinted them the custodians of the iieople's consciences? con-sciences? And how Ion- will respectable re-spectable men in this Territory cringeand crawl under the crack of the Tribune whip? We defy any of the gtug to -rove wherein the Church leaders have coerced or controlled any caucus, convention or voter during this Augus. election, or censured any man for the manner In which he j casthts ballot. But the "Liberal" whip has been whirled and snapped, and the "Liberal" bouuds have barked and howled, and the "Liberal" "Liber-al" blackguards have emptied their larrels of billlugsgateovcr refractory members of their iarty, till every respectable "Gentile" ought to rise iu disgust and indignation, and cast off the yoke of the presumptuous ruffians who assume so much authority, au-thority, and determine to make a decent organization, free from the libelous aud'uupriucipleu crew that justify fraud, abuse all who differ from them and attempt to dictate the allairs of the whole Territory. The "Mormon" jieople niay be simple, easily led aui generally unsophisticated, un-sophisticated, but they would not submit foran hour tj the gross effrontery, ef-frontery, tyrannical dictation and scurrilous abuse which -Liberals" take quietly from their would-be rulers, nor curl under the lash which is so frequently and vigorously vigor-ously whirled about the ears of ".Liberals" who attempt to be free. "Church dictation," even as falsely described by "Liberal" scribes, is not a tenth part to be so much resisted re-sisted aud despised as the assumption assump-tion and abuse of these impudent "Liberal" despots. |