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Show is j r a iLot? Tiik Tnifs, night bufuro last, published pub-lished a lengthy card, the burden of n hieh whs that some true liberals wero playing their party falso in order to build up the democratic party. The coinmilliination showed the curmiiiif baud of a lawyer. We think, without much effort, w e could locate tho author. Indeed, wo think the authorship lies between Judgu Jlr.NNKTT and Mr. Au-TIM Au-TIM it Hi' n. Of course, we know uolliin about it, except by putting this and that together, ami drawing a natural nat-ural conclusion. Tho communication amounted to nothing. It, too, must have been written with tbo shadows of tho approaching defeat darkening around it, The Tribune. Tho subject matter of tho foregoing cannot be dismissed so flippantly. For tho benefit of the Tribune we will say that neither Judge Uennei'T nor Mr. Disown wrote the card referred to. It was written by one who is enlisted in th cause so ably champlouod by those gentlemen. That is, though, a secondary ! m.iU.u ; iUa treat question is: Is it true that u'lidgu I'u'.Vi, I. i U holding tho lib-, lib-, orj pa.-ty t ahor fur the purpose of crippling the republicans? TiiU is the quusitic.a presented by the card that Tine Times published, and it Is on that will not down. Wo must bear In mind that the judge Is a politician politi-cian of the most cunning order, and if he desired the sneers of the democrats such a scheme would not be too subtle for him. There are many circumstances that give color to tho charge; and, while The Time I slow to jump at eouelu-sians, eouelu-sians, it must state that it is bocoming more and more convinced that thure Is something of truth in the assertion. When this democrats began their work of organization It was stated that Jui.ge I'uwKii.s was with them. .It is etn said that he had agreed to subscribe sub-scribe to tho fund for the purchase of the Hi raid. As the day passed ou ami tho democratic leaders wero aked why I'owkhs did not come out they said it was thought besi to keep him in tho background, back-ground, as his past relations with tho liberal party might injure the Cause. Iluring this period of waiting Tiik Tim ks sought an interview with the judge. He promised to prepare a statement state-ment for tho paper defining his position, posi-tion, but it never was prepared. After tho lapse of a few days, It was whis- I ...... .. n. I n..ll,n..Ajll,nllKl,n,l Iciuu liinuiu uun rili iiotui tiib uo ut.. gone back to the liberals or determined to stay with them, and the noxt morning morn-ing he came out iu au interview in tiie TiU'Uno. favoring tho maintenance of the liberal organization. Now, it is apparent to every man w ho knows anything about Salt Lako politics poli-tics that if Judge Powkks at that time had openly allied himself with the democrat', dem-ocrat', his act would have practically disrupted the liberal organization. The democrats would have sulierod from such a disruption. A largo majority of the gentiles of Utah aru and always have been republicans in priuciplu, and ilt h liberal frty had been disbanded at the begiuuiug of this light an army of republican workers work-ers would have been turned loose in the work of evangelizing Utah. Tho democrats got their best workers away from the liberals, and it wis to their interest to have the republicans held bak. Judgo Po.vkhs was the man who could do it, and it is perfectly reasonable to suppose that he was ordained or-dained (if there l"s been any "ordaining" "ordain-ing" in this light) to lead that branch of the democratic light. His record in Michigan shows that ho is consecrated to dctnr erfey and that h" is a willing servant of the party at all times. Look at the history of tho movement since Judgo Poweus declared his adhesion ad-hesion to liberalism. Havo you observed observ-ed the tactics of the democratic lh raid. a paper that is annexed by the men who made the deal with PoWkus, if any was made. There are still a great mimhor of the rauk and file of democrats demo-crats iu the liberal rauks, the proportion propor-tion of votes remaining above as it was bofure. If Pow kks was sincere in his course he did tho democratic cau.se an injury by taking a position that tends to keep voles away from it; but the Herald is careful not, to tread on his toes. The burden of tho democratic organ's cry is that the liberal party is the republican party. Notice the opening open-ing paragraph of its report of tho liberal lib-eral convention: "Tho liberals, or moro properly speaking, the republicans, held their county convention yesterday." Such demagogy is exactly in line with th supposition that tha democrats are eugagad In a plot to use the liberal party for their own benefit. Judgo Powers' speech declining the nomination nomina-tion for tho legislature also gibes with tbi tueory; and at every point where I di aiOOiatio piani 0.1110 to the surface 1 evident Liuuiug to show tho existence 1 of such a piot is furnished. Wo do not kuotv bow such tat ties w ill strike the intelligent people whom it is designed to hoodwink, but we do know that every self-respecting republican should look into this matter and make sure that he is not being made a catspaw of by the democrats before consenting to continue another hou? with the liberal party. |