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Show THE BEE 4 to THE BEE. Ihe difference and heal up the believe that any prisoner arrested on wound, but their effort a Hrm to be in merely circumstantial evidence should vain. The be presumed Innocent until proven faction to be comped rf more liberal men, guilty', this being the evident Intention who are willing to bury' difference in of the basic principles of Justice, Any the interest of party; but they are in- acts that savor of the method of the sulted, Ignored and repulsed by the Fanleh inquisition are entirely repreradical element of the McCune faction. hensible on the part of anv official In This fact would no doubt give the Re- this free country. A the defendant In seems to have nble counsel, they may publican a chnnce for a wnlk-awn- y the coming campaign, if it wn not for take some action In this case. th fnrt that the party of Lincoln is a hojwlewdy divided a Is that of JefferThe making of hisson. The division of a year ago and tory Is proceeding In the factional feeling between the difthis country now at a ferent cliques of the Republican party very rapid rate. Events are dally antl-McCu- Kntoml it I hr l'ol Otter t Salt Lake CHjr. for tranmUHluii through I he mall, a McunJ cla matter. Kates of Subscription: Any part of the United States. CsnaJj 12 ui nr Mexico. one year, jwsia,t paid coun and all Kng'and, France, Germany, trirs. embraced in Universal oiul 2.W Uur paid Union, one year. New Subscriptions may commence at ny time during the year. ff the Paper I, not desired Itcyond the elate for. the publishers should le mtl-fle- d by letter, two weeks or more before sub-M-ril- eil theterm expire. Remember that the pub Discontinuances Ushers must le notified by letter whtn a subscriber wishes his paper stopped. All arrears must le paid. Address all communications to ne at-em- s have militated against harmony and perfect organization. And the endeavor of the Silver Republicans to return BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, and partake of a high tariff love feast 307 Auerbach Block, Salt Lake City. seems at present to be futile. There are some Republicans who will never J. N. PJWERS Editor forgive those who thought the interests of Utah and her people are above SATURDAY, APRIL a. 1S99. the dogmas of party. Radical People. Some of the people in this state are altogeth- er too radical in their Feme of the officials office Mho gained through the general demoralization of politics in this state during the last few years, have time and again demonstrated their unfitness for the positions which they occupy. We have had occasion several times to rail attention to the actions of some of these demagogues in their official capacity by which their utter unfitness could be clearly realized if the deluded voters Mho aided in their election care in the least. Several times a couple of these officials, Mho, by the May, leave their duties to be performed by deou-tiehave made themselves especially conspicuous in their pernicious activity in politics during the time supposed to be devoted to official duties. Others of the countv officials have shown themselves to be careful, painstaking men, partisan opinions. A great many of them believe the parties were organized simply to aid them in getting their personal opinions in the ascendant. They think that the party platform must go just as far as their opinions and incorporate nothing more or less. And If at any time a member of their party thinks he cannot consistently support the party platform, and wanders off to fall down and worship false gods, they read him out of the party and forever refuse a consent to his reentering the fold. They forget the old saying that refers to the fool never changing. They also forget that some men have consciences, and that the exercise of the rights of citizenship is a conscientious duty with them. This radical class, happily, does not consti- yvho should be commended in the course tute a majority of either party in they have taken since their election, Utah, but they are perniciously active, and they yvould undoubtedly be enand possess the ability to make a con- dorsed by the people if there yvas not s, siderable lot of noise and fuss whenever they do anything. Just now, on the eve of the city campaign, these radicals are getting into evidence, and, besides causing numerous in the rank and file of the parties, they are giving the party leaders considerable worriment. In the Democratic camp the division caused by the senatorial contest, and consequent reading out of the party of the minority Democratic legislators and their friends, has been resultant of a number of radicals in the McCune faction; They Mill never consent to the nomination of a candidate M ho in any May opposed their chief in his late aspirations. Some of the cooler heads are scheming heart-burnin- gs a suspicion extant that they yvere owned by the men yvho seek to become the Crokers of the Democratic party in Utah. Last yveek the daily papers published an account of another one of those acts yvhich has aroused the indignation of a number of the people. A prisoner in the county' jail, according to the published accounts, yvas given a companion in the person of an employee of a company interested in his prosecution, and all manner of lies and threats used in order to extort a confession from him. This, yvith the full knowledge and aid of the sheriff. And a number of these facts have since been brought out on the trial of the prisoner referred to. We important transpiring that Indicate changes near at hand not only in the oil I leal but in the business and social world as well. Our political and industrial systems seem to be steadily and surely undergoing a revolution. There is a breaking ayvay from the old political parties and a general feeling Is groyving of the need of a neyv party that will concern Itself with social and industrial questions. The old parties do not seem equal to the occasion. They do not satisfy the needs of present conditions. The Democratic party Is In a state of hopeless disintegration yvhile the Republican party is little if any better off. The recent municipal elections throughout the country are strayvs yvhich show the yvay the political winds are blowing. They will not afford much comfort to any of the old parties. In the city of Toledo Mnvfir .irinf-- whom some rail a Social by a decisive maist, yvas jority. This is a significant fact yvhen until we have municipal ownership, then stale and finally national ownership. It will take time but the trusts and syndicates by their acts will greatly hasten the end. One thing seem certain. If the peo. pie do not become the owners of the franchise the syndicate will and then the masses of the people will find themselves In Industrial servitude. We have no fear that the American people will submit to this latter condition. A a It seems more matter of likely that they self-protecti- on will choose the former. This docs not mean the advent of Socialism or a general distribution of the property of the rich among the poor or that men who can not or will not yvork are to live off of the Industry of others. It pimply means the ubris-in- g of the people to protect themselves agnJnst the encroachments of a small oligarchy of capitalists; to protect themselves and take possession of their own. ownership has proven beneficial to the people yvherever it has been intelligently tried. It is backed by logic and good business sense. Municipal $ $ S As bearing on this question of municipal oyvnership yve quote the following In from an eastern trade journal: England, you have the telegraph rnn by the government, as the postoffice is. In Scotland you have in the city of the street railroads and gas plants owned by the people and operated for the benefit of the people by the municipality. In Australia you haye most of the it is remembered that he had been re- great franchises oyvned by and run for party the benefit of the people. pudiated by the Republican machine, and that both party machines Most men admit the principle of evodid their utmost to defeat him and that the vote yvas the largest cast in lution as a layv in material nature. the history of the city. Mayor Jones They yvill admit that progress is always ran on an independent ticket and re- from the simple to the complex, as Herceived the solid support of the entire bert Spencer says. labor vote. He stood for municipal Now, this principle of evolution is oyvnership of public franchises, and be- yvorking in our social, business and polieves that the city should oyvn its litical life, just as it has been and is street car lines, gas and electric plants, working in material nature. Those, therefore, that believe that yve etc.; that it should not grant franchises without adequate compensation. His can continue as we have been going election shows that the sentiment of are manifestly in error. The higher law has decided for us the great mass of the people of his city that yve must go on, and that yve can is with him. In Chicago a mayor representing no more stop improvement and progsomewhat similar principles has been ress than we can command the sun to and in the city of Detroit stand still. The more intelligent nations have althe people have already' declared in favor of municipal ownership. It all ready' rejected an aristocracy of birth. goes to shoyv that the people are think- The next step yvill be to reject an ing; that they are convinced that some- aristocracy of wealth. Future generations will only acknowlthing is yvrong yvith our industrial conditions and that the old parties are edge an aristocracy of intelligence, of offering no remedy' for the evils. It invention, of culture, of art. And this is not so far off as some may be that this is only the beginning of a movement yvhich will not cease think. s re-elect- ed re-elect- ed CJlasgoyv |