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Show i the day for the Tribune to enter any I left behind claim for credit la the matter. The cnly thin? that that paper did was to send a delegation to Mr. lloint to bi g him not to express his Indignation at the attitude assumed by it. lis reward was his warning statement state-ment that no party could be maintained on tho gos'iul of hate. The paper rais-reprcsua-ed him in that connection by quolir.fr him as saying "When the. tiiiio comes for you to divide." Ha did not say that, the tenor of his remarks in that conuection being "as you divide,, I want you to unite witn the republican party." Mr. Hour's Npecru was a trumpet call to republicans, and the Tribune cannot escape from the shame of its own position both toward the meeting and toward the party. The city is to be congratulated that the time, has come when such meetings can be held here; that we uow have the republican party organized so th.At such speakers can be invited to come here and arrangements made for their meetingn; that the conditions con-ditions which kept national politics) out of tho territory have all passed awav; and that the hand of death is on the throat of the organization which would purputuate old bitterness and strife. It is a great dny fur I'tah when such meeting1! can be held, and all true men rejoice in it. CACSK FOH COMiKAI'l lilKIN, An evening print makes itself ridiculous ridicu-lous by formally congratulating people that the city was able to have a meeting to hear Mr. Hoitit epeak. What kind of a city does it suppose we have here? There has never been a time when a promi'ient speaker has iailed to draw a Salt Lake audience, no matter what his subject. There have been plenty of gathering's of that kind in this city right alonpf. In moving froti; Colorado to Salt Lako City it i.as ne; r been necessary neces-sary to consider thai you wero going out of the world, aud those who think I so should "take a tumble." The Tribune. Tri-bune. That is good! For cool effrontery it rather excels. Does the Tribune mean to be uuderstood as saying that Mr. Iloitu's great speech of Tuesday evening even-ing wouid have been delivered here if there had been uo organized repub- lican party, iiow many republican speeches by outsiuu oiutors have the people heard in this city? What part did the 'Tribune take iu advertising Mr. Llouit's meeting? Thest a.e poitinent f.iej,tiou3. ' Vi"j are unable to tiiul that such a meeting was ever held hero before. Old residents resi-dents tell us that they cannot remember remem-ber that such a meeting ever before occurred. oc-curred. Perhaps there has been oue, but the Tribune's assertion that 'Hhere have been plenty of gatherings of the kind in lbs city right along" is certaiu-ly certaiu-ly faine. This was a republican meel- ing, arranged by a republican committee commit-tee for the purpose of teaching republicanism republi-canism and securing adhesion of voters to the republican party; and that was uever before done in Salt Lake City. The Times claims it is a good thing to have such speeches made here. The Tribune, does not care to deny tint it is a good thing, but that paper wat very careful to refrain from advertising the meeting. The event had been announced for a long time but no word concerning it appeared ap-peared in the liberal orgau. The ouly reference to the meeting, as far as we have observed, appearing in that paper prior to the time set for it was in 'l ues-day's ues-day's issue in w hich it was stated: "Tho republican meetiug at the theatre this evening will be a rather sick affair." It did not evea mention Ih i uarpo of the ii -fti,n!r;e'i gentleman who was to ad-tiiess ad-tiiess iu mecnug. It is a littlo iate in |