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Show Norm -to imr in.vt omhb. Tho hope of the liberals teems to be that tin y wiil be aUs to f l'pia between the (li'iiiociailc id republican p.ir!ins mid capture th unites tt the Ai'guit lcitiuu. Tlu-y Co iot hcsiUto to givo utterance to that tope, and it is r n every day occurrence to hear it discuss ed among them. When they meet seceders who have determined to co-operate with otio or the other of the national parties they urge this hope on them ns an argument to draw t'oem back to the librial organization. This bopu of securing the ollices is the only rosl excuse that the party ean find for attempting to. continue its own existence, and yet in its published utterances utter-ances it declares that it in lighting for a j principle. The language used by the officers in their address to the ono biTi-dred biTi-dred meu whom liiey ak to servo fh them is: ' Every true patriot shojd adopt for his motto, My couutly before my party.' " That aounfds ..-!--MrU(. .. but it V does v not -WVO with the curbstone argument. From tho published appeal it might bo presuif od that they thought it necessary in ho Interest of their country that lloy ihould oppose something, but what tfst lometbing is tho reader fails to umter-itaud. umter-itaud. Tho liberal party has opposed iho mormon party, but tho latter is uo longer iu existence, and the liberals, if they go iuto I ho campaign, will make the tight against thu democratic and republican parties, neither of which has sny more interest in the mormon church than it has in any other religions organization. organ-ization. There is absolutely no principle prin-ciple that the party can sustain in such a contest excepting that of standing t ogether to win power and secure ollice. There can therefore, be no element of patriotism animating it its sole object must be, as stated in the private talk of its members, to get tho otliccs, and its published appeal can ba uothing ie.,s than buncombe. |