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Show THE LIBERAL, COXFERENCE, It is expected that 5000 people will meet this city in answer to the call of the liberal territorial committee, on the 20th instant. Among the questions proposed for ! consideration are the following: . j 1st. Is it deemed advisable for the nuera! ! ariy to nominate a delegate for congress I 'next fall? 2nd. If not, shall the liberal party wage n active campaign next fall for the local offices ? 3rd. Is the liberal party ready to advocate advo-cate immediate statehood for Utah? 4th. Is it the judgment of tho liberal yarty that the time lias arrived to divide on party lines in Utah? Without being in the confidence of the Tarty leaders -we can safely predict that the first question will be decided in the negative. J"he liberal party will not put up a separate candidate for delegate to congress, and this will make the fight an intensely interesting cue, between the democrats and republicans, .nd it will show besides, for the first time since the beginning of the division movement, the true strength of the two parties. Since such jnen as Governor Thomas, United States Attorney Vakiax, Secretary Sells, Judge 1'atlock, whose resolution hastened this ctlon, and many other promluent liberals, auean to support the division candidate for .n;;resa, a liberal nominee would make a aorry showing and represent nothing but loredooined disaster. The leaders of the liberal party are too shrewd and politic to make any such exhibition of their weakness without corresponding benefit. It is safe, therefore, to say that the liberal party will not nominate a delegate to congress next Jail.; As to the other tltree questions, we opine that the conference will decide to wage au active campaigu for ihe local offices; will renounce statehood and declare that the time has not yet arrived to divide on party lines in Utah. 3f the liberals intended to do differently why would they come together at all since they may join their respective national parties w ithout unnecessary eclat. At any rate the conference wiil be a most interesting meeting and perhaps the most .American way of arriving at a full and free xpression of opinion. In the meantime it ! plain that the real question underlying all others is no longer the old one, how far, but . ' how much longer? |