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Show lined to reduce the republican vox i" this county. In describing the course of the democratic leaders and especially especi-ally of tho;r organ during the campaign, cam-paign, in seekinf to create the impression impres-sion that the republican party was identical with the liberal party, you might have used terms of much greater seventy than those you did employ. 1 did some "stumping'' lu the interest of republican principles, and while so occupied oc-cupied have been asked how it ws possible that I could engage in political politi-cal work for the libera, s. This question ques-tion Involved the proposition that I hau becomo a traitor to the religious organization organ-ization with which 1 had been identified identi-fied all my life, and was enganed in an effort to destroy the liberties of my former for-mer coreliaionists, and the disbanded members of the people's party with whom I was formerly a worker. The enormty of the injustice done to a person whose former political principles prin-ciples and atlilifttions and whoso roll-gious roll-gious faith and connections are what mine have been, by being placed id such a light befoie that part of th world that has known him best aud longest, can be appreciated only by a man who views the matter from the same standpoint as does tho injured individual; in-dividual; and ascertain as there exists in nature the principle of retribution, just so certainly will the ntroeity of falsehood that has represented the republicans re-publicans of Utah as being liberals under another name, re-act upon its circulators and endorsers. When the old-time voters of the people's party learn that in order to win their support they have been deceived de-ceived into the belief that tho organization organi-zation which claimed to advocate advo-cate the grand principle of Lincoln, Grant aud Garheid, was in fact engaged in furthering the conspiracies of the rule or ruiu clique, which the mass of the people" of I tan have come to dotest so heartily, they will not be Blow to manifejt their abhorrence ab-horrence of such campaign methods, and of tho political creed wnicn sanctions sanc-tions them; and thereafter they will regard with distrust the source from which the blanderous representations cmauated. The real streegth of the republican element in Utah is not even indicated by the election returns. For twenty years the people's party was engaged iu contending against what it n guided as the eiicroncbuieuts of a succession of republican administrations, and it was scarcely to be expected that its disbanded dis-banded mouthers would, iu the brief time that has elapsed since the cessation of that contliet, educate themselves out of the prejudices it had engendered in their minds, far enough to train under the banner of tho party they so long regarded as an oppencnt to be resisted. Again, until within a few months past, not a single newspaper supported by a people's peo-ple's party constituency, was an advocate of republican principles. I Every home journal from which the voters of that party have drawn instruction in-struction or inspiration iu national politics, pol-itics, has been democratic in tendency, until within a short time. The reasons why people's party journals were all democratic in sympathy made the same sentiment almost universal among the members of the party. Chief among these reasons was the hope that democratic demo-cratic success in a presidential election might result in ameliorating conditions in Utah which were objectiouablo to the members of that organization. Abstract political tenets have had very little to do in creating tho sympathy sympa-thy for the democratic party which prevails among the ex members of the people's party. Democracy, in a greit degree, owes its prevalence in Utah to conditions which the liberal party is seeking to perpetuato, conditions which every patriotic citizen should wish to see abolished, quick ty and forever. In fact, the democrats of Utah are not democrats iu the true sense. Their belief is a mongrel creed, the like of which cannot be found elsewhere in the Union. Four democrats out of every live in Utah are protectionists. It is indeed doubtful if one in ten would vote to remove the tariff from wool and lead. Four out of live refuse to aeeept Vau lluren'a strict interpretation of the constitution, con-stitution, insisting rather upon tho liberal lib-eral interpretation of it which republicans repub-licans believe in. Out of these two differences grow most, if not all, the others that divide the national parties; yet in relation to them the overwhelming overwhelm-ing sentiment among ex-people's party voters is republican rather than democratic. demo-cratic. The traditions of the members of the people's party, the discipline they have had as commonwealth builders in these mountain regions, the analogies of their religious faith. their convictions respecting the best methods of human government, and their whole cast of mind, all tend to make them republican rather than democratic in politics, when their consideration con-sideration of the subject shall bo from a standpoint of philosophy and principle princi-ple rather than of prejudice, and when they shall fully understand what really are the teachings of the two great national na-tional parties. 15. F. Ci VMiNUS, Jr. Salt Lake Cut, Aug. Gth. The rol.t.cit! Situation. To the editor of Tin: Tim r.s The. editorial iu your issue of Tresday evening even-ing is au excellent and truthill st:ite- ; ment of tiio iuauiuif causes that com- ! |