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Show ag of the Situation. Inthe midst of the rejoicing which followed the and Democratic the November elections, ground-swell they brought us, one dissonant note was heard, one discouraging word was spoken ; and to this effect, that the victory was too great to last, and that, before the Presidential campaign of 1892, we could be relied or to perpetrate some folly set* ting it all at naught. Four short months have passed, York. If New York comes to on it, his nomination would be sui- of a child, put forth with sincerity, All of us in the West and South are bimetalists; all of us are friends of ernment; standard; enlightened to give them and an honest, national admini-~ stration. of public affairs; above all, to reduce the war to a peace footing, opening the kets of the world to what we and, tariff marhave to sell, lowering the cost at home on Py ee had in thirty years, what we have to buy, and, by this potent blow at. monopoly, bringing the country back to nor- mal and healthy conditions indispensible to the wise determination and. beneficent application of all other. policies. On such a programme there could be, there can be, no manner of doubt about the result. ; One more defeat of the Republican party endsit, and the many. dangers encompassed by it, spreading out before us a gratifying assurance of national prosperity and glory, achieved through a just government of all the people; but a victory for that party, brought about by our incapacity to direct a situation made to our hand, may set the clock of reform back another quarter of acentury, overwhelming the present generation of Democratic leaders in irretrievable disgrace. The people are wiser than the politicians. Given mformation to see, they rarely go astray, and, however they may be misled by fleeting chimeras of discontent, they are vety apt, in the long run, the truth. In one sense, to get at at least, they are disinterested; they nourish no sentiments growing out of individual disappointment or expectations, and have no private axes to erind. They are beyond the reach of merely personal influences, and, therefore, they are better able to take Byioleeouie and sensible view ofastate ofcase afterit has been the double, enemies all of us expanding needs of the country require, and that the country will assimilate, a still larger circulating | medium, and look largely to silver as the basis of the currency which is to succeed the retiring national bank notes. Twenty-five ridors. Otherwise, the outlook Democrats and Farmers, and Pastry, just as they would ~ a3 ESSE) a 2% es { >Ki x ei : p % 4 New 3 Story u ro fA sy Pn a _ - " Lie SS dest Ay ie 7 - og . a ee ava A oF i 7 ‘ A : 2 3 a aEi a Se Yen so F E R U T I N R U F “ day Brick (Clayton opposite South Temple Block of Carpets and SPECIAL BABY CARRIAGE MARCH Wall dance. CALL o Paper. SALE FOR = DAYS! ee 10th TO 17th. The First and ONLY BABY Carriage Sale in Utah. any other time. 1 ™ %@ "Don’t Forget. Attentive we 20 per cent a than and polite clerks in atten _ oe SURE. | | distinc- tion in the Government have done their perfect work. Excessive and unjust taxation is the original, the fruitful source of all our ills. We. have expended ten years getting to-. gether on this paramount issue. At last we are together. We stand upon high, upon solid ground. Victory, ifnot within our grasp, is yet within our sight. Is it possible that any sane Democrat anywhere can believe it good, or wise, to abandon this position of advantage, reached afterso much travail and outlay, and to advance through a morass of uncertainty upon the rifle-pits and masked batteries of an enemy, who laughs in his sleeve as he waits to welcome us with bloody hands to hospitable graves? Thinking Democrats will never which do not need to be reconciled = ee Where is kept in Stock the finest line of Merchandise born of the fears of those among us who aremoved by an unwholesome terror ofthe Alliance. The Democratic party isallthat stands between the people and anarchy onthe one hand and oligarchism on the other. It has always shown itself equal to the emergency. It will doso now. for a year, or more, stipulating on-. ly for good- natured tolerance among all good eas and for = No. 45 W. FIRST SOUTH STREET, consent to this. Nor will they be diverted by any specious arguments fully presented to them. Hence it is that those of our friends who But, in order to do so, it must be have been for three months of unoff with the old love before it is on common heavy work and _ strain, with the new. One thing at a time boxed up: in the Capitol at Washis as good a rule in public as in priington, will findnot a little instrucvate life, and it will be quite time tion, as wellas relief, by conta@ enough to consider how we shall with their constituents. We are cross the river of our discontent, much mistaken if the free air of both as to a nominee and a finan. God’s country does not prove an | ical policy, when wegettoit. Inthe effectual antidote to the fetid atmean time, all possible latitude mosphere of the Congressional corshould be allowed for differences ~ would not be very radiant. Two points of disturbance are being advanced to mar our counsels. | 7 =ri Sas 5 But as to conclusions, years of class Cakes 112 PEAR ST., SALT LAKE CITY. in this is the extent cfit. In the matter of legislative detail, as the best fiscal means of reaching these ends, there is no agreement because there has been no adequate discussion and there is no general knowledge. The people of the West and South are sorely distressed and perplexed. % LAKE CITY rally together in defence of their conntry’ So. flag and at their country’s call. , Deseret Bakery, _ WEBB & FEVERYEAR. . Orders at home or abroad promptly filled. Bargain Sales every of the single, on SALT Alliance meet on common ground and are a unit in buying our Superior Bread, THOMAS SLEIGHT, Paper Box Manufacturer, ante?) believe that the Prop. NOTICE. Republicans, In Touching silver, this is to be said: Parker, Nain ‘Street, : Depot for Saitt Lake City Brewery Lager Beer, RS cidal. In that event, the party will be compelled to quit New York al-_ together, and to seek for a nominee | elsewhere; for nothing could be more absurd than the suggestion of setting aside Mr. Cleveland, and and already signs are not wanting substituting Gov. Hill, or any other that point to the verification ofthis New Yorker, in his place. When we sinister prophecy. leave Cleveland we leave New York. The road before us was, and it is -In the interval, however, the exso still, plain, straight and open. President should be treated with There stands across it the flimsy— the respectful consideration alike and rotten fabric of the Republican commanded by his public services record; an obstruction so slight and the obligation we owe to the that it would seem that the hands single Democratic President we have Ss. ‘ FINEST BRANDS OF WINES LIQUORS: AND CIGAR Men are nothing. The details of fiscal policies change with the changing wind of commerce. But principles of Government are for aye, and the Democratic party will be battling for the right long after we are passed away. the might topple it over. Back of it our promise and our duty await us. To restore to the people their lost control of the purse-strings of the Gov- Chas 1S of 1892. next National Democratic Convention resisting thenomination of Mr. Cleveland, or seriously divided up- ° ner Exposition ws OTE Able Se tt Watterson’s to the adoption of some, as yet undefined, but altered, policy as to. silver coinage. Touching the first of these, the rej flection ought to lessen the anxiety of those opposed to it that it depends largely, if not wholly, upon the action of the Democrats of New ae GBe Fountain Saloon, Rascality, jingoism and fraud, when we meet together to decide as tc what is best to guide us and who is best to lead us in the great struggle a Henry | a final union against Reedism and |. One of these relates to the renomination of Mr. Cleveland; the other of Warning. al Words DEMOCRAT. rat. UTAH T'o be found on the Pacific Slope. All the LEADING PIANOS i im ali grades. “ : 4 —— | The Unequalled Steinway Pianos and (Nason & faraiin Organs, Without a peer, every sy in stock, Sheet Musie * endless | ee _ eee ee a rr STRINGS, KEYS, BOWS and all parts ~ of every instrument, Iigh and low priced, as well as intermediate, constantly on hand. ue ise ge — eae 2 |