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Show A POINT WF.Ll 1 A li KV. Thk Times is in receipt of the follow ing letter which puts some festures of the present political situation in such a strong light that it can scarcely fail to arrest the attention of liberal republicans: repub-licans: St.TT.AKCrnr July IS, l)l-In the peculiar situation ill an.:lra polltlrally In this tcrrlti.ry It will not he consMereri out of pla e to ak a Iww ijn-tionH. as timru may be otners who wouUl te iiiad ot a Uttlo Information. As toutreiH now si ami, the two (.Ti-at national nation-al parties, rpuMli an and deniorratln, have an oi'rfaut.illo:! in the t'l.-rttory. The poopla's a-ty h .pili.-lii.nilti.l, uU t:.' lltH-ral parly has pr". li I'Jy d. Ti'. no. n.11 L':t t'.vo ."i-.:ut!i's. S'lm-nlt an.! loll Lk-i. I t s.ieve tM.. 1'. a fair ftnt.-nont (if ti ceperl fit-:at'on. I liii M-'.lahlv M-'.lahlv Informal' that a lanro percentage of the libi-ral purty wan orlmnaiiy n-pubik-an and that as at pr a. lit eon"lltutu,l, posnlhly threo-fourthRof threo-fourthRof all IIh nie.nhprH are n-puh!lt an,the Kreat malnrlty of those who left the party he-loiu'lng he-loiu'lng now to the deniocratlo parly, lnvlew of Ihl.-t situation, wonpl It not he wlndom. polltU ally npeaklnx Uj look around and as-ci-rtalu if poHliil.' the why of all these tallies. Chalrn. in O. W. Poworeof tie lll.eral party Is a democrat ot llfo Ions' reputation, an or-Kau!.er or-Kau!.er and H worker of ri'Cnxnl.tia ability, I iocs It not loo a little peculiar to -e ta body of the liberal party republican, while the head of th.i organization Is a democrat ! Ono morn question: Is it a fact that at a certain tin etli.ir of the democrats of the liberal party, at which Chairman Powers was presont and at w hich It was d i hied almoxt unanimously to orirnlw! the democratic party In Ibis territory, terri-tory, that Mr. Powers stated that he tent limart and tout tt-iffy them, but tkal he could do wore tfood for the demorrutk imrty, a$ chaintan of the liberal lib-eral porty, than an an out and out detnorrttt? or that in other w ords, O. W. Powers and tho democratic leaders, have an underHtaniilnit that he Is to uohl together the republican Winn of the liberal party and sruj all the democratic, contingent lnt the rank of tha democratic party. Of course a few of tho knowing ones will remain with Powers, but they w ill know when to put their ballots at tbe August ulec-tion. ulec-tion. Perhaps thin may account for the midden chatiKO of ben.rt, politlc.nly, of the manager of the Tribune. A known deinoi rat formally yours, h suddenly chanifes his coat and nroi'l.'ihna hltnartlf a reimtillra!!. nlid Is hn- lua the strength of tho prena to hold tho re-publicans re-publicans in the lilmral party. ( ibicrvi. t'irt roports of the moetinirs of two political parties, how tho Tribune elves our democratic f .len.iii notices iu - jrU white a re-pubd-'-in me tin.; l tiisniksed with a lino I'eople haT" wonderod at the efforts of the l't-iifd to Identify the iibtnal party with the republican: is It not a cry of "catch thief, to cou'r up Powers' manipulation of pulitlcal wires, that lead Into the democratic camp? la there nny.ne soft enoiiuh to imiitrine for a mo-r.eut mo-r.eut that Powers' final destination Is not thy : democratic t a:op and ttott if he can succeed in holJtnj the liberal republic ins aloof from the republican party ami sending his democratic friends where ttev balonir. he will havo ac. conip'lshed a political scheme worthy the deft hand :.f the doughty Mich. gander. It Is an a Knowled .'ed fact that in all tha miuini; camps tho republicans are iu the majority, if tho voters werti 1 B'-paraled on parly 1m- s. V v. this account for iha democratic ainthy in l'ark City: that they feel, let well "noutrh alone; as lor.gr as they remain 1 b'ral they hurt tho repub.i-can repub.i-can party. iud at the prnjier m mont the democratic dem-ocratic contlni;ent can recede the wiiik and help their friends. I believe tha leading spirit of the democratic party In l'ark City li rustlcatins In Alaska, feeling ijuitu happy at the Kenoral outlook, Huppo u our rep itiiicau fiienda in the liberal lib-eral party t il:e the p.,n to axcertrm how tneny truw blu d." '.ocratH taey have with them and t:et at the tin inwanliii s. of tht-, i ffoi' to rapture Die territory for thi deuiocratic patty. Allot which is re-ptctfully suhmittaii bv a KKl'l'HLICAN, |