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Show calamity, to lie done away with at the carlie-t pos-ii,!e day, the speakers d.-ela:-iii'' that the be.-t use they euiild make nf the political freedom newly proclaimed to them ; Ijy the ehlll-eh leaders was to use it in tltc over;;,: ..-. id" a wasteful and insulting munieipal administration. administra-tion. They therefore organized l'.r the coming municipal campaign under the name of the Citizens1 i Alliance, saying their local affairs were of more importance to them than .National politics, and for the. present they won hi not a Hi Mate ' with either the Ueiitihlican or thei Democratic party. This does not meet with the approbation of the church, however, and it is likely that the movers in that meeting are about to be w hipped into line by the church power and taught that the church-granted liberty that was proclaimed has limits not to be overpassed. An indication of this is the following from Tin-: Pi'-oi. Pi'-oi. t;u, the exponent of "the authorities:" author-ities:" Any man who will countenance, encourage, or wink at the formation of local political organizations not in touch with the two national parties, shows conclusively that he has not the good of our fair Territory Terri-tory at heart. No one will question ques-tion but that the time is ripe for division on national party lines. Utah's position is n. peculiar one, and the conditions which confront us are unusual. The two great parties have each an anxious, interested eye upon us. So that any side splits, divisions, or factional movements will tend to create distrust. The Republican and Democratic parties are in power. If Utah receives any national favors it will he at the hands of one or both of these partus. They are now waiting to sec the people of the Territory honestly align themselves and stand strong, linn and constant to the party whose tenets they espouse. They will utterly ignore and refuse to recognize anything but the national parties. Therefore, any step or movement which tends to divert the people from joining these parties is unwise and untimely" untime-ly" and should be avoided and frowned down by every good citizen. citi-zen. All of which shows that the church has a very well-defined pro- O.VtV O.Vi OF ITS OLD THICKS. After qnynxn several of the in-enutious, in-enutious, liot-heacloil si.neclios (fill clumsily "iloctored" before they saw print,) uttoreil by the members of the so-cnlleil "Citizens' Alliance" at ft recent meeting in this city, the Tribune swells up big and blurts out the following nonsense: That is rather a timorous way to put it, and indicates tiiat the brethren at Brighanl are not quite sure that the church really means it. The evident purpose, however, is to test the matter to some extent, and see how far the church will really allow them to go. The result re-sult will be awaited wi'h interest, and will of course indicate about bow far the people of Brighiim City will be permitted to act for themselves. If this movement is not squelched by the church of course it will win at the municipal election against all comers; hut if it is downed, it will show that the gramme in politics, from which it does not propose that its members shall depart. That programme seems to be, in brief, that the Paints may call themselves Democrats or Republicans as they will, but must be either one or the other, and shall not wander into by-paths to the weakening of the strength that it has been contracted shall be delivered de-livered to each of the National parties. The Brighi.ni City people who imagined that the freedom in politics which the church leaders had proclaimed to their henchmen meant indeed freedom were, it appears, ap-pears, woefully mistaken. And all that is so much a matter of course that it is marvelous that they should have ventured to act on any other basis, or on any basis that presumed pre-sumed the perfect liberty of the citizens. Tribune. Sept. oth. The foregoing re-hashed bosh w ill sound doubly ridiculous to those who understand the situation here.. ohurch is still in control, resenting the independent attitude of the "kickers" and able to use the "suckers" for its nnn purposes as of yore. S. L. Tribune, Sept. ."ml. What a mixture of slush, ignorance ignor-ance and twaddle! Before the jack opens its mouth to bray it should have something clear in its mind to bray, or a definite object in view to bray at. There are between 3o0 and -100 voters in this city. This "alliance" cannot show thirty-five voting members; not ten per cent, of our voting population. popu-lation. Their strength is so limited that they do not even intend to place a separate ticket in the field. But in the face of this, the Tribune has the gall to say ''if this movement is not squelched by the church of course it will win at the municipal muni-cipal election against all comers, but if it is downed, it will show-that show-that the church is in control." j But we can atTord to pardon the weakness of our contemporary's argument on the grounds of unparalleled un-paralleled ignorance. We believe that if even the Trilntne fully knew the anti-water works faction it so poorly champions j and the present groundlessness of their "kicks," it would boot itself all over the country for ever putting its foot in this pi-tty quarrel. the outgrow out-grow th of a declaration of a broil- j promoter of tins city. that he "would oppose any project, whether good or bad, attempted by the Mayor." The following article appeared in the Tribune two days after the piece ! quoted nlove: A day or two ago we gave the fiction nf a meeting in Brigham Citv, which demanded a new deal j n:id actual political independence; ! that denounced tl.f present inuniei- pai ollicials, and declared that i ihoir retention in oftke i3 a public , The Tribune thus makes a great big I ass of itself, and is the laughing-! stock of the entire community by this vapid exhibition of how thoroughly thor-oughly ignorant it is on our local affairs. A defense is literally uncalled un-called for from us: the Trib own words choke off its intended rabid ideas bufore the end of the paragraphs are reached. But as to The Bi oxeh. We have simply stated our candid opinion in reference to what we considered to be the interest of promising Utah and our fair City of Homes. In those expressions, we consulted no one; and are unconscious if we : do or no not echo the opinion of the ! church authorities. Those are our own honest sentiments, which wc ! fancy we have just as good a right to utter as the EdUorof the Tribune ! has himself. So, hereafter, as heretofore, here-tofore, we intend to exercise this independent, inalienable right of free speech whenever the occasion requires, notwithstanding the appalling ap-palling fact stares us square in the ! face that we may expect to be mocked and scoffed at for so doing, bv the gem rous, conciliating, big-' big-' hearted, broad-minded, "truly-! "truly-! American" Salt Lake Tribune . The Bhioham City Council, in- eluding the Mayor and Bet-order, is : composed id three Kepubli cans ami two men who lean strongly in that direction, but who have not yet ! declared themselves: one pro-' pro-' nounecd IVmoerat and one who5e sympathies run that way; and two ! independents; and yet the "kick-1 "kick-1 ers," in the face of these incontrovertible incontro-vertible facts, have the brass to declare that I ho Democrats are rcspou-iblv for the water works and 1 the wav in which thev were put in. " |