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Show cide. Under these conditions the burden of proof is placed upon those who maintain the theory of a plot being in existence; and if you could get right down into the hearts of the people you would find that this feature of the situation is finding a lodgment there ami that coulidcuoe is springing up front il . This is what leads to the nni versa! tialilicatiou of all expressions of doubt, aad it is an infallible sigu that the new order of things, not the old. is to rule here in the future. The movement caunot be stopped. When spring cuiu s the bird begin to take Might nud vv ing their way northward north-ward from ttieir southern hiding places. The. migration is slow at first; cold blasts greet those that first venture and keep others back; but bye and bye nature na-ture teaches them all that the time for them has fully come and their winter haunts are soon deserted, ror forty years a political winter has reigned iu Utah but the spring is now hero and a migration from old to new political haunts has begun. Tha liberal meetings meet-ings and manifestoes, ami the newspaper newspa-per pillorings are the cold blasts that keep some of the geese back for a lime, but shortiy all will find that the summer is upon them and that they must move il' they would be "iu it" iu the futuro. IT CAMNor UK IIO.NE, To those who are striving to keep alive the old issue here, Tub Times would say that it caunot be done. Tho liberal democrats may hold meetings, the liberal republicans may hold meetings, meet-ings, and both may bold meetings together. They may raise lunds, issue manifestoes and crack the whip, but the new movement will roll on irresistibly. irresist-ibly. If any evidence upon this point is needed it is found iu the retreat of tho men who are opposing party organization. organiza-tion. That they have retreated cannot be denied. It has been but a few weeks since they publicly proclaimed j.thut they did not believe tho church '" was sincere in its renunciation of polyg-' polyg-' amy. The agitation that has been iu progress has developed the fact that the groat majority of citizens do believe be-lieve iu the sincerity of that renunciation; renuncia-tion; aud the opponents of party organization organ-ization have fallen back upon their reserve works. They admit that polygamy, as mi institution in Utah, Is dead. Individually this admission is almost universal, while the liberal committee uses langinigu that is tantamount tanta-mount to the same tiling. Hut these people insist that the mormon mor-mon vote is iu tho bauds of the priesthood, priest-hood, and that their is some bidden purpose behind tha expressed desire among people's party nien to atliliate with the great national organizations. organiza-tions. It is admitted by all candid men that if the people's party is sincere tho mission of tho liberal party must be regarded as closed. On every hand we hear this declaration: "If they are sincere sin-cere it is all right, but what evidence have we that they aru?" Now, gentlemen, let Tiik Times ask you ona question: What evidence have you that they are not sincere? Lot it follow this up with auother: What have you to oil set the many evidences of siuceriry that do exist? These are (juestions which the public has a right to demand au answer to, and a liberal yell, be it remembered, is not au auswer, but a confessiou of weakness. weak-ness. You say that the voto is priest-ridden. priest-ridden. The only ev idence in support cf this that you givo us is that the mormon vote has always been solid. Has tliere beeu any time since the liberal lib-eral aud people's parties were organized when you did not expect ami count upon ils being solid? Were not tho conditions such that it had to be solid? Hid you expect the mormons to divide while they were fighting in a common cause and while the rest of the community com-munity was solidly aud determinedly righting against them? It is admitted that the mormons have heretofore voted solidly. Jt is acknowledged, acknowl-edged, we think, that they could uot have done differently; but The Times respectfully submits that there is not in that fact any foundation for the charge that the vote is priest ridden, in the fense in w hich that term is being used in the present discussion. Those who wish to hold that the vote, under past conditions, has beeu controlled by the church are welcome to do so. It is reasonable to suppose that common interest mado tho v ote unanimous, and not ollicial dictation from the church; but, iu any event, it is unreasonablo to jump at the conclusion that tho church authorities would exercise any such influence now when the church organization organ-ization has everything to lose aud nothing noth-ing to gain by such meddling. Let it be rcmuiubered that if the church is to have a future, if it is to retain re-tain the allegiance, even the respect of its own members, it has to walk along the straight line of honesty in this matter. Laying aside the question of principle entirely, we are confronted by the plain fact that the members of the church cannot afford to put it in such a position as would follow a maui-lestation maui-lestation of bad faith now. Outside of all the evidences that we have of the existence of good faith, is the plain, straightforward logic which teaches us that bad faith would be sui- |