Show NOT 8UEPKISINO 1 Some surprise has been expressed tha I the Republicans have made such sligh headway in this county They havi I labored hard among the erstwhile member of the disbanded Peoples party but havi I I enlisted very few and the success amon tho Liberals i no better Some an wondering why this is why there is not 1 flocking around the Republican banre I something like the movement towards th < Democratic standard It occurs to us tha there should beio occasion for surprise in this The explanation should bo easy As to why the exmembers of the Peoples party do not take kindly t the Republicans cans nobody who has read political bistorj can ask for a reason The People I party was made up nimost oxclusivclj of Mormons and Moons have been the special object of hatred of Republicans The latter begun heir career as a political organization wivha fulmination against the Saints and wa gelieve no Republican platform plat-form has been framed since I860 when the famous twin relic of barbarism plant was inserted which has not contained an attack upon the Mormons And what IE also true the Republicans have lived up t their professions in this matter waging vagng determined and at times vicious and vindictive vin-dictive warfare against the Saints We dont refer t this now for the purpose ol deterring any Mormon from joining the Republican party We mention it merely as a historical fact and for the purpose pur-pose of furnishing the readiest explanation explana-tion why the old Peoples party members do fold not rush pellmell into the Republican foldBut I But now a t the matter in question It may be true the Republican party is composed I com-posed largely of the wealthy classes but it does not follow that a the brains and progress pro-gress are with them also The Democrats are not of the poorer classes of American citizens but among them may be found men of wealth of influence of progressive ideas that are the pcers of the proudest and highest in the Republican party and if we shall turn to that bright galaxy of names which iu the sphere of statesmanship statesman-ship or on the bpttlefield have spread a halo of glory over tho American names as many will be round t be Democrats as Republicans All Democrats we repeat are not of tho poorer classes of our citizens but it i true that for the most part the common people are Democrats This so far from being any causo of shame to the Democratic party is it glory I claims just that viz that it is the party of the people It i pledged to their interests it demands equality for them before the law it claims for them tho right to be their own custodians of their liberties it denounces favoritism by which one class of citizens are made wealthy at the expense of another an-other through unjust and therefore vicious discrimination it proclaims the reign of democracyof the people it insists that the vote of the man in his cheap coat shall count as much as that of the millionaire in his velvet one therefore the people trust it love it and the classes the pseudo aristocracy of the land correspondingly hate it because it threatens t strike down their special privileges and put them upon an equal footing with their fellow citizens It i no reproach to have it said Your party i composed of the common people peo-ple or to put It in rather in Jlegant Republican phraseology of the ragtag and bobtail when we remember re-member what the common people have lone in this world I i they who have made it a world worth living in In the I unequal contest with kings and aristocrats I they have succeeded in wrenching from I their limbs the fetters with which they I I tvere bound and not only did they assert their liberties but they have maintained them and have established them upon such i principles and protected them by such a I system of government at least in this land hat never again will either an aristocracy Dr kings a t lay unhallowed hands upon their freedom With them all great reforms re-forms commence and struggle upward until they bless mankind We cannot all forget that it was the common people who first listened gladly to the teachings Messiah and who in the face of opposition opposi-tion which seems to us appalling faithfully adhere to the grand truths entrusted to their keeping until the world received hem We remember too that the Messiah Mes-siah himself was of the common people Ee was the Great Commoner wo may say md i would appear that GOD designed to how His contempt for human wealth for human aggrandizement for ah arti fcia distinctions of classes by causing His Son to come up from among the common > people We shall not be ashamed to be found standing among the common people sinc we are in such goud company |