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Show A OI.AKINU IMONSISIKNCT. It has been but a few weeks since the Tribune was calliug on the mormon people to give som sign that they wer ready to abandon the people's party and co operate with the two great political po-litical organizations of the country. It distinctly stated that that would inaugurate inaug-urate a new regimes here aud set up politics on national party lines. The plain inference was that it would welcome wel-come mormons to the republican party if they were ready to come in and loyally loy-ally support the party. Every reader of tho paper wdl recall its utterances on the subject, and will recognize the iucousisteucy involved in its present position. Now that mormons have come into the republican party anl unequivocally anootmced their intention of co operating operat-ing with it, the Tribune heaps abuse upon them, declaring that they are not suitable political associates for any one. A more inconsistent position was never occupied by a public journal. No better evidence of the good faith of the mormons could be asked for than has been furnished by the course pursued by them since the party movement started. They are the ones who are ready; it is the Tribuuo following that needs to advance. The attitude of that paper shows that it would accept nothing which would involve in-volve an abandonment by it of the party of which it has been the exponent. If the church should follow up tho utterance ut-terance of its members and teachers by a solemn declaration that trio political polit-ical notion of its people could not and would not be interfered with, the Tribune Trib-une would simply cry out that the declaration was iusincere and call upon its followers to stand together on the old lines. All that can be accomplished by this unjust and absurd course is to keep a certain number of people out of the new movement for a short time. The liberal party canuot be held together by such methods. There is no other ground upon which its maintenance can be urged, and it must therefore continue to disintegrate rapidiy. A large majority of the republicans have left it, aud also a largo majority of the democrats. There is no liberal jiarty today. Some oflice holders and some others w ho are afraid to call their souls their own, with a sprinkling of sincere men w hose eyes hav not been opened arc clinging to the w reck and the Tribune Trib-une is trying to make them believe they are aboard a sound ship. |