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Show seeing the inevitable and speedy division di-vision of political parties in this territory terri-tory on national lines,' have organized a democratic club in this city for, work and discussion on their side of the line. Will the republicans accept the challenge chal-lenge and follow suit? We shall see what may follow in the wake of the pending November election. WAIT FOB NOVEMBER. "Revolutions never go backward;" nor will this rule be roversed in the case of the Mormon church. Whatever of hidden motive or insincere professions profes-sions may attach to priest or people in the recent promise to obey the law against polygamy, the solemn promise itself is an accomplished revolution in a political, social and religious aspect. We have looked in vain through the columns of the church papers to find in them evidences of a proper appreciation apprecia-tion of the far-reaching effects of Wil-ford Wil-ford Woodruff's manifesto and its public endorsement by the body of the church, in conference assembled. Courts and creeds, the pulpit and the press, find the puzzling problem of the last thirty years in Utah materially simplified, and each waits for the other to give direction direc-tion to the new departure. We boast of our independence as a people, and yet we cowanlly "wait for the wagon" of popular applause before we dare to express our considerate opinion of sudden sud-den movements which interfere with prejudged ideas and partisan ambition. In the matter under consideration, however, how-ever, it is due to truth and to the Intrepid In-trepid chief justice of Utah to say, tha his quick appreciation of the importance of the church movement in its sudden change of trcnt, found in his case prompt expression arid action. Already, sagacious democrats, fore- |
