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Show i ises to pirn throe electoral votes in thu next election to the democratic party. Tlieu it .lud'ii MksnK! i and Mr. I'mh m ow and .Mr. Annni: l'uvrr ran go with tin' same appeal and with tin; 'nno aiiiinent to the republican reua'.e, that s-nato will !e thbie to con-hub con-hub t whether it would nut b,t better J nl'er nil to tnkfl a rhsnee of getting , three electoral votes lor the repubiiran , Ciiiilulatu." I ItwmiM he a dad thing for t lie Tri- biiii.i I ) base a delifgatiun of republicans or a ileli--ition of democrats spesiuii'f I ,,r I l'h in Va!.liiii!'t')li. Jlereloforti Hln'oa repubik';iu adiniuistriition hits com i into l ower it iia fallou on its nirfs ai d eiied out "On, mighty Tri-, Tri-, m:ir: Wlnl in liiy ill in relation to uil'.i'ii -i .ii i t i!i Ar.-t !o;.i a deu.ocratlr nduiini trail,,., tra-il,,., ;. n ,w ii not I in Wa li-in li-in -ton il !.! fiilie-i upon itn :ac .Hid ,n nsppiiiint i.m- "" !,,; : :,i , Tr.btine: U h I co:;imii:iN haxt tinci fur til v s-n nt. Speak thy miver-W):i miver-W):i tlut li...' s'.'ivj may lianten to iai nine thy j il.i! tl.efV.abiiHiimr-it of parties will leave noue in iiii.jeciioii to t!;e luoru-j luoru-j iii.; it',, tutor, and it will b compeiled to ' i esc aek i !ot!i vi ' ileli'ii.'itioin rep-' rep-' re,eiiUi:g tt;e ;;. nt p..,tii;i iTgani.a-I iTgani.a-I t:on .-:i:il! c tivey to W avliiirtoii tiio ,i.hc, ol i!,e people of l'tah. It. would !m pi, r.-i ;i,r t.i ii to I o able to retain its ,;,! p, ,.',; ,,.). and it would gladly defeat a woiienl iii.it ibna'ci'S to retire it from iii'tuenha! c- ir.i l or this rea-d.in rea-d.in n i imuiiiption is too wild for it to i'lil.iLrc :?i. and no ai-ertiou is too rut k-tu-s f, r il to j.-ut fottli. . ... t TI1K I'AMfAHiN OK ASli SI V i HIM. Ti.e Tribune routimies to counsel its readers from a platform of assumption. It makes no difference to it if tho facts assumed are ridiculous, contrary to rea-on and opposed to plain evidence; evi-dence; if truth bus to be laid on the rack to furni'-h evidence; the paper is bent on maintaining the old order of things, and everything must yield to that one object. It devotes a column aud a half today to its fancies regarding the plans of the mormons, basing tho w hole nightmare fabric on the assertion asser-tion that the people's party was disbanded dis-banded as tho beginning of a conspiracy con-spiracy against the rights of the geutile people It says: "If, at tbe word of n man, a party disbands, what is to prevent that party from reuniting tit the samo word? The dissolution was not well done; it was too sudden a death; it was too spontaneous spon-taneous by half; it happened to come in the wrong way." rJJhls is a sort of back-handod assertion, asser-tion, to be sure, but the Tribune ia just i. ' 1- iui- t bouie with the hypothetical ," ag with any positive presentation of fact. The idea intended to ba conveyed con-veyed is that tita people's party was disbanded at the word of one man. There is no foundation whatever for tbe assertion. The history of the movement move-ment is so fresh that it is surprising to find the Tribune attempting to distort it in that way. The dissolution of the people's party was the natural result of tbe conditions that had arisen. The renunciation of polygamy had done away with the necessity for the maintenance main-tenance of political parties on religious lilies. Numbers of iulliiential gentiles d and accented tho tact aud had aut about organizing the two great national parties. Tiis people's party were anxious to have the old religious re-ligious controversy done away with; they saw that tho gentile republicans nn t tho gentile democrats were in earnest, earn-est, and so they dissolved their organization, organ-ization, leaving their members free to unite with the two great parties. j There is no ev i.leiice of one man die- tafion in the matter-, but because events ' moved swiftly the Tribune insists that they were engineered by an autocratic (antral authority. Our morning contemporary con-temporary should remember that events always move rapidly when tiia time is 1'ropitious. We might refer it to the history of the adoption of thu reciprocity reci-procity clause tf the MoKinley bill ns Ro il!igi''S?tn of Uie rule uovrrning the matter. The subject had been presented pre-sented to the ways and means commutes commu-tes but had been rejected. The lull went to the senate, aud then Mr. liLAiNK wrote h.s historic letter to Senator Fuie. it was not supposed that anything could be done, but the j time was ripe. When the proposition was brought before the people there was an instant response, from all sides the public was heard from, aud in a few days it was a foregone conclusion conclu-sion that the policy would be, adopted. In a very few reeks after tho Mibjeet w as sprung the great republican party was committed to it. This did nut result re-sult from auy dictation. Tho conditions condi-tions were favorable a"id they only i)edod to bo pointed out. The swiftness swift-ness of the movement did not detract from its gounoneas, and, in fact, w rendered possible only by tho fact that tho couutrv wad ready. The samo was true in Utah. Everything was ready for a chance and w hen the conditions were brought clearly to the attention of the public miud a rapid change was unavoidable. So much for the premises upon which the Tribune bases its predictions for the future Now let us east about for the juotive which prompts the paper to ilraw such pictures.. This ).-, found, we think, in the same aitine. The paper has a purpose of i s owi ia eeeking to stop party organization, and that purpose looks out at us in the following fol-lowing paragraph: "If Mr. Dyek, Mr. I'Aiii.EYWif.i.i.viis and Judge Jl'DW ran go next winter armed with a petition asking for staie-bood staie-bood to the democratic nous, and can assert that that is the wish alike of saints and sinners in Utah, of everyone every-one except a little disgruntled and unreasonable un-reasonable band, the democratic house will be rery apt to listen with much consideration to a request which protu- |
