Show political clubs v the peoples party has come to recognize the value of political clubs as serviceable adjuncts to elections the organization of these clubs has been unshed in salt lake city with unwonted vigor due no doubt to the stimulus of the approaching municipal mun cipal election there but organization elsewhere should not be left to await tho coming of a time when they are indispensable to the saving of the party at an election they would be of great value here As educators in political matters as awakening an interest in tho most solemn of citizenship as enabling young men and old to give a reabon for the vote they cast and the way they cast it as educating a man to distinguish between the principles of his own sarty alleged principles of is opponent as a means of educating young men to become orators and eloquent in the defence of their rights and their friends political clubs would prove invaluable how soon we may absolutely need them here EO one can tell but we should be ready for tho hour the number and importance of offices in the gift of the people increases very fast it may be sometimes difficult to get a suitable person for some positions and if we may judge from the frequency which some young men in the past have had positions thrust upon them and have contrived to thrust upon themselves or six persons there are no young men in the territory qualified to hold positions of trust we do not say emolument for in the main young men can do better burily than by accepting public office this condition may be due to the fact that some young men hava not in the judgment of other young men shown themselves qualified to hold office we will assume thia to be the case and say that the organization of political clubs will remove the cause for placing all the in a few bands and we sincerely trust that another legislature may not feel that it ig compelled to keep all positions amonso its awn members because of the absen cof proper material the same is truo of many cities and counties people grow to look upon certain persons as the only ones qualified for positions aad A is not to ba wondered at if the incumbents themselves shall share in an opinion so unanimous moreover aad above all the effect of the dabs will be to solidify the party politically to draw out the lat ent ability that fears to come forward now lest some person grown fat through political favoritism shall rise up and say he is fishing for office it will procure what is essential to the long life of every political party a rotation in office without which the incentive to work is gone it will make our youth capable of maintaining their rights and it will bring out on election day the strongest and heaviest vote that can be secured by any means so far devised As the winter evenings adar t of time for this work it would not ba a bad idea for the party leaders here to set the ball rolling soon journal |