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Show MEN WHO AUK i;iorAIB. We know of men In this city who are btill clinging, with mure or less tenacity to the liberal party, who, if they would adhere to the positions assumed a few weeks ago, would now bo with one or the other of the national parties. When the agitation for party division was in its earlier stages and when events bad not progressed as far as to the dissolution dissolu-tion of lha people's party, there were scores who declared that they would cease to be liberals if the mormons would disband their organization and thus show themselves to be ready to unite with the democratic and republican republi-can organizations. Many have accepted accept-ed the dissolution of that party as satisfactory sat-isfactory evidence of the good faith of its members, but there are others who hang back, frightened by the unwarranted unwar-ranted assertions that are made in behalf be-half of liberalism This reference of tho matter will probably come to the attention of numbers num-bers who took such ground before the dissolution of the people' party, but who have not yet made good their promises. We would ask them to stop and inquire if they are acting fairly by themselves or tiie community. Let them search their own minds aud see if they are uot being led into a course of action contrary to the dictates of their reason. While the people's party yet remained intact, they saw clearly that the disbanding of that party was all that was needed to justify abandonment of tho liberal organization, but now they hesitate because the opponents of division follow their regular habit of ec mbatting the sincerity of every step la'tau by tho rtormou people. They are led 'v-iy bv the frdse assertion asser-tion that the people's party was dissolved dis-solved in a day, without preparation t.ud without warning, forgetting that tho action was tho mature outgrowth of conditions which had been forced upon the atieution of thinking men, and wbiloh they themselves had readily admitted ad-mitted to be so strong that they would yield if the people's party would first fcubnVit to the logic of the situation. The Timks would ask this clas of men to go back over the grouud and pia.ee themselves in tho position that they occupied a few weeks ago, and answer an-swer if there bo any real reason why they should deviate from the course wh'ch they then marked out for themselves. them-selves. Remember that tho interests of Utah are al stak in this matter. There are few indeed who do not admit that the linal settlement of the old controversy contro-versy will be a blessing to the territory, but if every opportunity for its settlement settle-ment should bo rejected, after every condition had boon ftillilled, we would never reach it. The men who get i'p a demand for the dissolution of the people's peo-ple's party as the standard by which they would bo guided aud who have since held back from accepting their own terms are unf.iir to Utah, unfair to meu who are laboring for the best interests in-terests of Utah, and amazingly unfair to themselves. If they will review the matter dispassionately they cannot fall to appreciate the unfairness of which they staud convicted. |