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Show A Letter From Mr. Silver. EniToi: The Timev. The folio-wing thoughts arc my own: It is very possible and altogether probable that they arc the thoughts of very many others, not only in Salt Lake City but throughout the whole territory. How it appears to others I know not,' to nit; it seems that one can no more help his thoughts than a hungry man can prevent, himself from partaking of food wheu it is placed before him by some generous gener-ous soul for the purpose of appeasing that hunsrer. When but a boy I thought, acted and spake as a boy, but when I became a man I thought it time in some particulars at least to put away boyish things. Think, however, I must, and think I did. And I suppose 1 shall have to keep qu thinking while memory, thought and being shall last. Were I, howe ver, to 'express all the thoughts that have, rushed through my nwnd of late, by some I should be called a crank. Less than two years 6ince 1 dared to express a thought or so to our then "city dads," which was as true as man and wife are one. (At least they should be one.) It was only the other day that' a gentleman of some prominence in the community told me that for so expressing myself I was considered con-sidered cranky. He said: "You told them too much truth." Now, Mr. Editor, you know that I must be very careful in the choice of words. In this civilized age of j politics, etc., it becomes one I suppose to mix things just a little, i. e. much error with little truth. Well, sir, though cranky by some I mav be considered, I shall venture, if ! you will allow me. through the colums of The Times to express a thought or two now uppermost in my mind. I think the time is near if it's not already come when mormons and gentiles alike should put away boyish things and become men. I imagine that not much longer is it possible for the three separate political factions in Utah to exist, namely: Liberal, republican and democratic parties. I think this because of the action taken toward the republican and democratic parties of Utah by the late conventions at .Minneapolis and Chicago. It occurs to me now that every eitizen of Utah professing to be republican, be he mormon, Jew, gentile, black, white , or otherwise, with out any unnecessary delay should unite with the real American organization and that every citizen claiming to be a democrat should unite with the American democratic organization. And at the forthcoming November election the two separate parties, each put in the field the brightest, best, and most moral man of their party that can be found for representative represent-ative to congress. A man that will faithfully represent the best interests of the whole territory independent of priesthood, church or party sympathy, and at the polls each voter be truly loyal to his party professions, the two parties fighting it out on purely re-publicau re-publicau and democratic lines. Then together to-gether which ever party wins we will shout glory! glory!! hallelujah!!! Respectfully, Joseph Silver. Salt-Lake Citv, July 7th, 1SD2. P. S. The aim and object of some particular particu-lar democrats here in Salt Lake City is without with-out doubt to make Utah a democratic state. But 6uch, I believe will miserably fail if every republican will only be loyal to his professions. J.S. |