Show BEWARE OF NONPAETISAN SHIP A new doctrine has sprung up in Salt Lake City within a couple of months which is i that if a citizen is a party man and believes in party government he thereby loses all title to respect and his character as an honest man This doctrine is promulgated by a few gentlemen gen-tlemen who have associated themselves together as a nonpartisan committee seeking to get control of municipal affairs af-fairs They are respected citizens as a rule and have been successful in a business bus-iness way but there is not one of them to whom the people do or can point as being preeminent In civic virtues Not one of them is a public spirited man In the sense of devoting some of his private means to the founding of chairs in our university or other educational institutions the name of no one of them is connected with any public benefaction ben-efaction Whence their superiority to those citizens cit-izens equally respected and equally successful in business affairs with them Does their superiority come from the fact that they have segregated themselves from the people as well as parties They are not known to have wielded any innuence on the body politic poli-tic heretofore in truth they have been indifferent to political matters They have associated themselves together asa as-a conclave whose aim is to dictate those common affairs in which all the people are directly concerned but without consulting the people Their talk about country before party is but the cry of the demagogue nothing else They ask the people to forsake their parties and to follow their lead They object to what they term partisan parti-san government because they cannot control the regular political parties they would have the people run after false gods whose prophets they themselves them-selves are They do not trust the people peo-ple let the people beware of them |