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Show FAVORS' ADHERING. TO -NATIONAL PARTY LINKS. gait Lake,-.City, Nov. lGth, 19.05. Editor Truth!' In your issue" of No vember lith, after discussing the victory vic-tory of tho American .party In the recent re-cent electjoh and thftdlylslon In the Republican' ranks, -you 'add:, ''Now Hooking to the futUroVV Nex'tfyear there will be a state clectldh.'embers of congress, members of 'the legislature and county o'ttkerfi aro lo bo elected. The 'American party flushed with victory, will spread over the state. Next' year they might elect tho county ticket In Salt Lake county and several sev-eral other counties, they, might elect the entire members of tho legislature In this ahd other counties. What is the opposition, the -Republicans and Democrats, going to do to stop them? , Are wo going back tp .the condition of Liberals and People's party, which wo thought wo had left a dozen year's' ago?" To your last question, as one of young Utah, I answer, an-swer, I sincerely hope not, nothing could be gained for Utah or her people, peo-ple, either Mormon or non-Mormon, A by returning to tho old fight. I grant you, Mr. Editor, that .one party or tho other may gain a 'victory, in one or more electlohs, but every yictory(?) of that kind will be to the detriment of the state and her people. Such victories vic-tories no true" lover of the stato wants. "What Is tho opposition, tho Republicans' Republi-cans' and Democrats going to do to stop them, tho "Amerlcan"(?) party, you ask. I cannot answer for tho Republican Re-publican party, nor havo I authority to speak for tho Democratic party, but as one member of tho latter party 1 hope that tho party to which I belong will meet In convention next fall and nominate a full Democratic ticket, for every officer who Is to.be elected, and that every man nominated will be of tho dled-ln-the-wool, un-washed, un-terrified- kind, -As -I write I fancy J can hear voices saying, "If you nominate nomi-nate a ticket you will loose." Nover mind, If wo loose it won't bo tho first tlmo that we havo lost, not by several; sev-eral; and it is far better to loose lighting light-ing under yourovfn colors, If you have made a good fight, than It is to win and not know what colors you havo been fighting undof. It has been said that an Irishman nover knows that ho is licked unless ho is knocked out and even then ho has his-doubts.-Tho Democratic party iif Utah is not knocked out. Wo hayo. had some hard I licks, but wo are- still in tho ring fighting. For argument's sake, I will grant that tho "American" party will carry, mind ,you, for argument's sake only, every 'city and county in tho stato within the next two or three years. Should such a victory for tho "American", party occur, which Is not possible, .Utah, Hko other states In tho Union, must eventually return to national na-tional party lines, Democratic and Republican, Re-publican, " U. S. Grant, In tho campaign cam-paign of. 18B5, said, "Wo will fight it out on' these .lines if It takes all sum-Amer." sum-Amer." As one member of the Democratic Demo-cratic party;. I say vyo will mako tho fight' pn national party lines, in .this stato if it takes fifty years. ; W J FLO AN. i |