Show t DONT TRY TO RAISE THE DEAD It is a matter of regret that any attempt at-tempt should be made to revive the old antagonisms which were so disastrous dis-astrous to this territory Yet that this Is working among a certain class is assure as-sure as that the great majority of the people want the dead past buried forever for-ever The agitation of the woman suffrage question has brought it to the surface The correspondence to an eastern paper from this city has tended to revive this feeling it comes from no good motive and it points to no good purpose The terms Mormon and Gentile ought to be expunged frcm the political lexicon as those distinctions should be banished from business and legislation Why bring them again into common use Let it be distinctly understood that it is from a few of the former members oC the Liberal party that this effort has sprung The responses from the other side have been made in reply and in most indignant form There might as well be an understanding on this subject at once If the great work of the past few years is to be counted for nought that ought to be known If it is an accomplished fact that ought to be recognized And there should be no dubiety about it one way or another That the Peoples party divided on principle seems to us so clear and so completely established as to be prac tically Indisputable If ever a people who worked together in the same party separated more thoroughly into two divisions di-visions we never heard of it If any fault can be reasonably found with them on this score it is with their too heated zeal when discussing the questions ques-tions on which the national parties differ There are no more ardent Democrats Dem-ocrats or resolute Republicans than are to be found in Utah today and they I were formerly associated closely in the I Peoples Party The doubts that have been recently raised are not only Insulting to their integrity but they are positively absurd ab-surd in their puerility in face of the patent facts The theory which some people appear desirous of upholding forwhat purpose 4s best known to themselvesthat the body of the people peo-ple of Utah can b4 swayed hither and thither by religious influence wielded by a single individual cannot be substantiated sub-stantiated by any authenticated fact If any people on earth have given positive > posi-tive proofs of the sincerity of their convictions con-victions and their determination to act upon and stand by those convictions It is the former members of the old Peoples party The change from a Democratic to a Republican majority of votes in Utah ds harped upon as though there was but a single string to be touched in the I tune of the explanation The influences influ-ences that brought much greater changes all over the United States are entirely Ignored in accounting for what took place in Utah The unpopularity worked up against I Cleveland in which many prominent Democrats foolishly joined the effects of the hard times the disastrous decline de-cline of silver the great fall in the price of wool which helped to down the Democracy and raise Republicanism Republican-ism everywhere else are not considered con-sidered in the case of Utah Oh no It was church influence we are told The Herald has pointed to the figures of the elections which most positively refute the fiction that Democrats were turned Republicans by church influence influ-ence and we call attention to them again The Democratic vote of 1832 was retained in 1S94 and an addition was made of over 4000 votes Can anything I thing like that be shown elsewhere i This was in spite of the church influence in-fluence said to have been used In fa vpr of the Republican cause All this will be thrown away on people peo-ple who have set their heads to think or at least their tongues to say that church influence prevailed They cannot be convinced against their will But candid people will concede that similar causes operated here that prevailed pre-vailed elsewhere and they will see that as a matter of fact the Democrats of 92 remained at their post in 94 and made great accessions to their Tanks and therefore while nearly the whole country showed great losses to the I Democracy Utah did not swerve Republican Re-publican gains came from other sourcesthe Liberal fc > arty and the floating element There is no good ground for the fear felt or pretended by a few agitators who are trying to raise the dead The animosity which was killed by the settlement I tlement of old disputes should be never revived We are fairly divided in Utah on political questions Call us Democrats Demo-crats Republicans or Populists but do i not bring up the old distinctions As to woman suffrage it has no real i I bearing on this unpleasant matter The women will vote on their own convictions con-victions There is no reason to charge I that they will be swayed by any other j influence The opponents of the measure meas-ure not being able to advance any real arguments resort to this play upon the fears of former Liberals It is a shabby I and paltry subterfuge unworthy of men who are selected to aid In framing the fundamental law of the state We protest against this unmanly attempt at-tempt to provoke anew the old conflict con-flict Let those who want to draw out against the majority of Republicans and Democrats on an anti Ionnon crusade do so and show their colors boldly We appeal to the honorable exLiberals who have seen the honesty and sincerity and ardent zeal of their associates who were formerly of the j Peoples party to oppose and expose the wrong now being done to these allies It Is an imputation upon them that they do not deserve It will do no good to any person or any cause I It is unworthy of just men And we denounce it as false in its theory and vicious in its methods r It should be treated as something to be despised and ridiculed and too preposterous for sane people to entertain |