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Show WHEN IH E. The Ogdcn Standard, which has recently re-cently shifted from a people's parly organ or-gan to a republican paper, quotes from the platform of The Tim ex, enunciated at the time of its change of proprietorship, proprietor-ship, to show that The Times is committed com-mitted to the support of the republican party in Utili whenever a readjustment on national issues takes place here. It says: Immediately after tho election lu Nov unber last Tiik Salt LAhR t.miik announced Its policy pol-icy as republican In national politics, and liberal lib-eral In ternt rial affairs, "until such lime as a readjustment ol party lines shall lake pl ioe in t'tah;" t.icn it would espouse str.ilht republican re-publican prln Iples both at home and at large. We take tills occasion to remind Tiik Timks that such a readjustment Is now taking pla e -in ta t has taken plaee In Og h u and Weber county where nearly' all progiesslve movements move-ments in Utah take their 8ta-t and that "the party of progress and civilization, tho hope nnl sheet anchor of the people" the grand old republican p.-rty Is thoroughly thor-oughly organized for active work lathe future. Those who believe that "the gre.it principles underlying the pa ty that save ! the country from secci-slon and treason and bankruptcy, are the guiding stars by which the American ship of state must sail lnt the port of se tirity and potency," have brought aintut. the present condition in Weber; aud hundreds of young and old men who have not heretofore, owing to the peculiar aud unnatural political conditions condi-tions obtaining in Utah, given to the subject much thought, are now studying the prln-lple.) of the two natlnn.il parties and jo.uing the republican re-publican party "the party that gave to tie world the declarat on of emancipation: emancipa-tion: the party that lent undying prestige to our form of government for other nations to emulate." And they are I in solemn earnest, to . They will bo found in the ranks doing their duty ' when cowards quail aud sorehead, and mugwumps sulk and ! snarl." They will be republicans ' so long as a single soldier survives of t he inspired host I that followed GKASTand Siikuman and Shkh 1 dan and the other gieit 1 -aders into the deadly fusilades and the poisonous marshes ' and the cruel prisons of the south : so long as I Hopbists and traitors aim a fat il td at the I industrial prosperity of this country: so long j as the bullwhtp aud shotgun rem;iin pot -nt I 1 campaign arguments in the solid south; so long as ignorance controls intelllge-ice and the sab 0:1 the scho d :" for just so long will the republican party's glorious mission remain unfulfilled. ' Hail the Standard waited a day longer it would have found in The Times under the caption, " The Ogdcn Democrat and Other I)cmocrats."a precise pre-cise delinition of this paper's position with regard to the political situation in , this territory. The Times is not blind to the fact that a change is going on. Neither is j it loth to reckon with it. Hut the spasmodic spas-modic movements in Ogdcn and other, cities, though more substantial than former attempts in the same direction, are not convincing that tho time for a reformation of parties is already at hand. When it conies Tiik Times will make good its promise. |