Show t y IT CAUSES A COMMOTION IT is 18 very amusing to watch the th 4 antics of ot the Liberal leaders over t overt the solid soUd and Immovable platform of the Peoples People's Party It has made madea mad mada a great commotion among them Their endeavors to decry It are evidence evi- evi f dence of or its effects upon them and th their ir fears tears of ot its influence upon rea- rea real real reasonable l l Dable and conservative men mep ot of all persuasions persuasion Some of them use useF F reported such expressions as these as 88 report report- reported reported ed in their organ Oh HOh Fudge HiS Itts It s all rot Its guano all the way through Its Its a mere sham etc r- r Others describe it thus 1 tAl As fine g declaration of ot 0 uk j i 5 pIes ples as any in the world but en- en entirely entirely en entirely platform without heart The plat plat- form contains some excellent things but why did not this party exeCute them years ago It strikes me that the Mormons purloined their platforms from the Liberals I should say the Peoples People's Party ha had stolen the Liberal thunder The platform is good to catch flies with etc These remarks are funny when placed side by side If the plat platform platform platform form is rot it is Liberal rot If It is all fudge il it is Liberal fudge If it is guano all aU through it is Liberal guano If it is isI I mere sham ft It it is Liberal sham So with other reported remarks of prominent Liberals they are areC C contradictory and indicative of dis- dis disorder dis dis- disorder disorder order in the Liberal mind The organ itself now e explains plains that it means to say the Declaration ot of Principles is composed of two parts I One part is stale rubbish the theother theother theother other part is stolen from the proper owners We laugh the first part to scorn the second part we reclaim as our own So 80 that the platform is not all rot rot or all sham or guano all ail the way through but only so only only- AO o in part and that is the first part which the organ says it laughs to scorn forit for forit forit it is stale Well here hereit hereit hereit it is The basis of free government is the right of ot the people to govern themselves The object of the Federal Con Con- Constitution Constitution Constitution is to t secure a free govern govern- ment government to the people of the United States wherein aU ail all people shall be protected in io life lite liberty and property and in the enjoyment of every right essential to their happiness and not inconsistent with the rights right of others We regard the Constitution as a acred sacred charter of human liberty we revere its principles and declare our unwavering allegiance to the government and laws made in pur pur- pursuance of its provisions pro visions That is the first part of the Declaration Declaration Declaration of ot Principles of the Peoples People's Party That is what the Liberal organ says Bays is stale rubbish which it laughs to scorn and that other Liberals as 88 radical as their organ denounce with such choice express express- expressions ions a as rot rot sham and guano guano Wen Well we are not surprised If the Liberal party of Utah has ha I any principles at all an they are hostile Local self government in inthis inthis inthis this Territory it has labored to des des- destroy destroy destroy troy Free ree government as set forth In the Constitution and the Declara Declara- Declaration Declaration tion of Independence is stale rub rub- rubbish rubbish rubbish bish in its eyes because it pr pre pre- precludes precludes eludes control of Utah affairs by Liberal politicians The fhe Liberal organ has admits admit admitted ted in so many words that the die die- d 7 A male and d t of voters female already effected is part pr of off the Li Liberal eral policy and that the he total disfranchisement of all Mw Mori Mons mODS by means mt ans of a similar test teat joath oath to that of Idaho is part of tile the r Liberal purpose This is a coi con confession that the arraignment of that Of- Liberal party in the Declare is true One of the chief ch tools of the orga organ la is represented in it as paying Baying This arraignment is a tissue of misrepresentations Well he and the organ for it they can quarrel it- it it out between themselves x We Weare are more than ever pleased pleased Y with wieh the platform because it l h hr r made this Liberal ferment Ail All All- j been said by its T opponent goes to show that it cannot be he a sailed successfully and while the worst elements among them seek aeA f t tto to pelt it with vile words the f thoughtful recognize it as good wd I praiseworthy in principle and d i to claim it aa as their own Whatever they may say it is the Peoples People's De- De Declaration De 2 of Principles which thay- thay A Awill will stand by firmly and w whid 1 7 j their candidates ee will wUl have to pledge then elves to support y r |