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Show pose of the Herald. Now let us take a glance at this statement that 80 or 00 per cent of the liberals are republicans. It is a rosy estimate but it is too high by a good many. There is no doubt that r'O or 90 par cent of the intelligent men in the liberal ranks are republicans, republi-cans, but if any body thinks that the republican party will ever secure such a proportion of the votes cast by the liberals last week he is very much mistaken. mis-taken. There is a large element that voted with the liberals that is always democratic) in every community and will be so here. The republicans will get a very large porcontage of the thinking, think-ing, industrious, conscientious men who have operated with the liberals, but when the "rouuder" element comes to be counted it will be found with the democracy. This will cut down the republican percentage of the whole to perhaps 65 per cent. The criminals, the loafers, tho tin horns, and all the "scum of tho earth" who voted liberal tickets will go over almost solidly sol-idly to the democratic party. It has beau so in every city on tho continont, and will be so here. Democracy always al-ways appeals to that class and always secures its support. The republicans do not count on it and are seldom willing will-ing to make any overtures to win their votes. Aud this presents another view of the political situation that decent people peo-ple should carefully study. Those who have not yet joined either party should .should understand that if they cast in their lots with the democrats they will eventually find themselves voting with the riff-raff of the city. Those who have gone into democracy will lind that they have made their beds with the "tough" clement of the city. This is a perfectly correct statement of the situation. sit-uation. The democratic) party which the !' raid speaks of as "the great party of the people." always shows up in every city as the party of tho slums. There aro good men iu the party, but somehow it is repulsive to the average citizen to think of joining a political organization that seems to go down by choice into tho dens of iniquity to secure se-cure npporters. (otrLKMON or parties. The Herald quotes from the New York Times in refereueo to the late election in Utah. The extract shows that the Times takes a very sensible view of the situation here, but it has evidently drawn its ideas on some points from the Herald, for it asserts that the liberal ticket was supported mostly by republicans and that republicans repub-licans were responsible for such effort as was made to keep the old antagonisms antagon-isms alive. The Times did not know the truth that tho liberals were officered by democrats; neither had been informed in-formed of the suspicion that the democratic demo-cratic leaders had an understanding that the liberal party was to bo used to injure the republican party. Commenting on the Times' utterance tlie Herald says: The 27mm correctly classes the liberals liber-als and republicans as alllliated in principle, prin-ciple, and poiuts out that it was the perversitv of tho former faction which prevented the republicans from casting cast-ing a majority of the votes. Admitting that HO or 00 per cent of the liberals are republicans iu national politics the Herahl confosses that if the liberal party were to disband the contest between be-tween republicans aud democrats would bo much closer and more interesting inter-esting than ths late struggle was; nevertheless the democrats have no lontrer any nervousness regarding the politics oi the territory. I'tah is democratic, dem-ocratic, and we believe permanently so, in spita of the combinations which can be foimed to defeat the great party of tho people. Tho first sentence of that is very cunningly cun-ningly worded and it is intonded to convey the idea that there is a similarity similar-ity between the peculiar principles of liberalism and those of republicanism. The Herald has been engaged in that business for a long time but its crookedness crook-edness is finding it out There are more republicans than democrats in the liberal party; there always have been, and all that any paper can say honestly is that a. majority of the liberal party are republicans. When the Herald Her-ald or any other paper says thst "liberals "lib-erals and republicans are afliliated in principle," it is simply a gross misstatement, mis-statement, the purpose of which is so plain and so fraudulent as to condemn the journal publishing it. bo much for the statement and pur- |