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Show show that with a fair and earnest align uieut here, the rest of the territory can-nut can-nut be permanently divided on miut basis. LAST IWUHT'S MKKTINU, The republicans of ralt Lake as setnbled last evening in mass meeting to the number of loOO and resolved that the time had oome for the organization of the party. The meetiug was a stir-ling stir-ling aud au earnest one. There were some present who were bent on disturbance disturb-ance but the vast majority were serious and determined to do the right. A report re-port of the proceedings appears elsewhere else-where in this paper. Jt is not the purpose pur-pose of Thk Times to review the speeches that were made, but it desires to call atteutiou to a few of the salient points of the discussion. Mr.Ai.i.KN stated that party organization organiz-ation would mean a republican aud democratic party with a third party comprising a majority of the votes of the territory. That statement will not bear analysis. There have been two parlies, tho liberal and the people's. The disintegration of one meaus the disintegration of the other. When the members of the people's party shall have allied themselves with the democratic demo-cratic ami republican parties there will be uo people's party; it will be wiped oiii, as completely as the liberal party itself. But JrnGK Dixon comes forward with tho statement that tho Tote of the members of the church is controlled by the church aud that when an opportune moment should arrive for the consummation consum-mation of some sinister design, tho mormon mor-mon vote would be cast solidly at the dictation of the ollicers of the church. Thk Timks claims that there is no foundation or reason for that assertion. ft has all due respect for the views of those who differ from it, but it would point out the difference between tho conditions of the past and those that are to rule iu the future. The churcn element and the gontile ele- manl U...!,,!..... 1 I - , - uoiiuivio fccu anayeu against each other, and tho members of the church have naturally voted to-' to-' gether al all times no living man would have expected them to do differentlybut differ-entlybut there is nothing whatever in that fact to warrant the assumption that tho church makes slaves of its members. Every statement made by men who ought to know contradicts the assertion; every snap of evidence sets the seal of error upon it; reason cries out that it is wrong; justice demands de-mands that it be not assumed to be correct. F.very principle of right rises up to insist that a spirit of fairness shall rule; and gentlemen gen-tlemen who desire to be fair caunot refuse re-fuse to recognize and accept tho good faith by which the mormon people are prompted. If there had been nuy doubt upon this poiut in tijii mind of any man, it must have been dissipated by the utterances utter-ances that feH fr-mi the lips of Apostle John Ilenry Smith at the meeting last j uight. That address left no ground whatever for the alarmists to occupy. In spiritual matters aloue, said Mr. Smith, did the church aim to control its members, hi civil affairs each was a iree agent, i tiers were no chains upon any member; the mormon people were not . slaves; "and," said tho speaker, "I am as free a man as Judge Ibxo.i himself." The close and respectful attention i given to Mr. Smith's speech showed I that it sunk deep into the minds of all j present; ami Thk Ti.mks has uo hesita- j tion in asserting that it cleared awav ! doubt from the mind of every man w ho I was at all inclined to be just. And that I Speech, in its other features, was as! magnificent a republican appeal as any I one could wish to listen to. It was ai trumpet call to the people of this terri-! tory to lift up the republican bauuer ! aud rally aroiiud it. i Soma of the speakers who opposed j organization stated that so far as Salt j Lake aud Weber comities were con- ! cerned they were ready to admit that I party division would bo safe, but they i fear the ' cow counties." This was i tantamount to a complete surrender,! for no mn will seriously undertake to |