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Show THE LIBERALS IN WEBER COUNTY. Manlpnlat.d by Plae.-lluatar., tha Strlag-t Pall.d from Salt Law. Headqaart.ra. Ogden. July l'J, 1891. F2wtor The Times Dear Mr: I am. a constant reader of your paper, commend com-mend itt course and am in fullsyrapathy with its spirit of republicanism; hence I have no apology to offer to anyone whether they belong to the Ogden democratic-liberal ring or the Salt Lake Kicker's club of the office-holders office-teekert, office-teekert, and irreconcilable of high and low degree. The Times position on local political politi-cal issiits is unassailable, aud its hun-dredt hun-dredt of readers in Ogden agree with it. Ogden is a republican city by a majority ma-jority of three or four to one on a straight issue between republicans and democrats. The people of this city (not the office-seeking brigade and would-be would-be party bosses) are now in fact divided divid-ed into parties; they are either repubii-cant repubii-cant or democrats, and all the sophistry and unreasoning rant of the pauper press of Crdrn or its deuocratic "liberal" "lib-eral" (God save the mark) backers will not avail to defeat the division on national na-tional party lines. On Saturday evening lttt, as you know, and at your able Ogden corret-; corret-; pondent will alto inform the renders of The Times, the Powers-Baskin-Kiesel part? held a meeting in the Grand Open house in this city, whitA they called a liberal rally. It is immaterial, however, what it was called, so long as the fact remains that the ooject for which it was assembled ty itt manager was not attained. It may be stated as fact (1) that the crowd was small and unsympathetic; (2) that whatever of enthusiasm was manifested came from the Salt Lake visitors aud the local maaagers who were pra.ant; (3) that b litical control of Weber county. It rest with real republicans to Bay whether Weber county shall be carried car-ried by the republican or the democrat!!. demo-crat!!. By no possible combination of circumstances can I'w mugwump or "liberal" party wiu. Your sincerely. K. A. Liin.EFiF.LD. a very large majority the audience was composed of sli'sight-out republicans and democrats who were present out of curiosity (1) that the rally was really a tint failure, ho far aa necoinplishinr uny good for the docayiii.'j lio rat party; (,' that tho only tiiinjf clcsily demonstrated was that at the coming August election either . the republican or tho democratic party will wiu iu Ogden City aud Weber county. I desire to record it ai my opinion, which I beiiee is the opinion of every candid and thinking nun, either rf publieim or democrat, that the liberal party v.iil cut a sorry figure in the coming com-ing election; that the said parly (or remnant of a party) will not come within with-in gur.shot of electing either of in candidate;. can-didate;. J f peak advisedly when I as-H'rt as-H'rt that the liberal parly Is being manipulated man-ipulated by disappointed place-hunters and that the firing are being pulled from tho Salt Luke headquarter. I can como ai near proving this asertioti ai I could hae done if called upon a few yeart ago, when the old tight was on and when I aaid, la my liberal newspaper news-paper that the ttringi attached to the people's party were pulled Hr the mormon mor-mon churrh leaders in Salt Lake City and that the rank and file of the party voted unquestionably as their leaders dictnted. I believed that assertion when made, and now believe that it w!is true theu, and also beliere that today every movement of the liberal party in Ogden City and Weber county is dictated by unprincipled political manipulators in Ogden and Salt Lake. Now, Mr. Editor and your readers, the republican party has a regular organization or-ganization in Ogden City aud Weber county, and the 'party haa placed a ticket composed of republicans in the held and made an appeal to republi- cans for support. The question now to be considered is: Are these nominees good men and sincere republicans ' And if there be no proof to the ron-1 ron-1 trary, it must he detiuitrly shown tuat they are unworthy to receive the vote every citizen who is a republican from principle and not from tuitish and unworthy motives. A few words concerning the late lib-' lib-' eral party. In Us day it had a mission - to perform and performed it well. Its primary and avowed purpose wat to overthrow polygamy in Utah and in-, in-, tore obedience to the laws of the United Slates obedience to all laws. Perhaps it is unnecessary to discourse with fullness full-ness and particularity upon a them which should be familiar to most readers read-ers of newspapers, but I feel like say-' say-' lng something about the local party to which I wa attached for so many year, whose principles! cherished aud whose victories I helped to win. Just now I desire to go on record a saying that ' then existing circumstances and conditions condi-tions were a full justification for the ' maintenance of the liberal party; that lor many year it wat the only political organization in this territory which elf-respecting and law-abiding American Ameri-can citizen could consistently atliliate with. Those ware the reasons that actuated act-uated roe and a large majority of the lonmormoo citizen of Utah. Hut there wat another clas in those days who, while posing at liberals, were very careful to be conservative to the extreme verge of cowardice in the face of the enemy. It it needless to descant at length, upon thi phase of the question. ques-tion. I only call attention to it for the purpose of tayiug that, as a geuoral proposition, the cowardly conservatives of the old timet are today (when the danger is over) the bravest of the brave rampant liberals while the fighters who bore the brunt of the battle, who tacriliced time and money and personal comfort for a prinoiple, . are now, when the battle hat been prao-tically prao-tically won, with few exceptions found ranged on the tide of one or the other of til two great national parlies of the country. Lo not infer that I wish to be understood a expressing the belief that no men of principle are left in the liberal organ zatiun, for I know better 1 really think that a very few of them are honestly mistaken and do not reason from cause to etTeet. Sumo of them are honest bigots and fanatics, as are some of the mormon w ho belonged be-longed to the ex-people's party. Other are honest enough but shallow, and some are neither honest or actuated by principle. Such an aggregation of in- congruous elements cannot hope to do more than divert attention from the is-turs is-turs of the living present by unworthy appeals to the credulity and prejudices of the people who are unfamiliar with the political history of Utah, aud by working on their fears, by drawing dismal dis-mal pictures of disaster yet to come, when the mormon people shall have . taken theiratand as republicans or democrats dem-ocrats w hen. in the near or remote future, fu-ture, this territory shall become a sot-erign sot-erign state of the American union. It is an old and trite saying, that the time to cro.ss a bridge is when you reach it. The statehood bugaboo need not frighten any one iu thi day or generation. gen-eration. No doubt there are many intelligent in-telligent person who honestly doubt the sincerity of the mormon leaders and people; there are many others (and 1 am one of them) who have the most implicit faith iu their sincerity and are willing to trust tbstu. To me the talk of what the mormons might, could or would do if Utah were a sovereign state seems most puerile. To my mind it smacks of moral cowardice; such sentiments senti-ments are unworthy of any man possessing pos-sessing the genuine spirit of American independence, I do not care to dwell long upon thi point. Utah will be admitted ad-mitted into the sisterhood of sovereign states wur n the time comes, and until then, or while I am alive, 1 propose to go right along about my business as an independent American, in love with my country and my family, striving to inculcate in the heart of my four American boyt (ol the niuth generation of their race on this continent) tbe principles of freedom, of reverence for the good and an abhorrence of ail that is false and untrue. I have no fear that my boys will ever be called upon tu defend the honor of the nation from any twaii'ts that shall be made upon it l.y Uotmont or tho (Lt'cendtnt ct M o-rt.o;;4. I believe tint whet Utah s.iall t'o admitted to wear the W'Tii of statehood more wi 1 be no mure loyal or patriotic common-wealth common-wealth to uphold tho dag aud contribute contri-bute to the glory of the American nation. na-tion. A few word more and I will leave the subject of Mormon incrity. The highest representatives of the United States government in Utah have not hestitated to trust Mormons Weiiu they have pledged themsslves to obey tbe law. Judges Zano and Henderson, Hen-derson, eminent jurists and pure men both, have recorded themselves, and only in a very few instances have they had tbstr confidence abused. The republican party of Og'ien city ! and VVener couuty has a right to expect ex-pect tbe votes of republican. It invites in-vites republicans to vote lor republicans republi-cans as such. It is my belief, and I apeak now aa one having had some political experience, that those protested pro-tested republicans who at the coming August election bolt tbe regular ticket will in time to come be known as bolters. Their excuse (that they were afraid of what the movement might do at some time in the indefinite future) will not be received bv those who shall etand by the party in iu tint contest with tbe democratio party for the po- j |