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Show ITS MISCONCEPTION. Replying to Tho Tribune's sizing up of tho political itualiou in Utah, showing show-ing that thero is no such thing in this Stato as n,Rnpublican party or ft Demo-gnit Demo-gnit i(i' party, the Mormon church being in complete control of both, the Ogdon Stmldanl (issumes that Tho, Tribuno went with tho American party because "The Tribune "element of the Republican Republi-can party" wns defeated in the nomination nom-ination of John C. Cutler for Governor. Thai is a complete misapprehension, both of motive and of fact. For, Tho Tribune was not. backing the candidncy of cither of tho competitors for the nomination; nor was the determination to found .the .new part' reached after tlmt convention, but months before. Tho mooting in Bamberger's Hall in tho spring of l!)()l, to protest against the impiftal ions in the scandalous testimony delivered bv President Joseph F. Smith in the Smoot case, determined by altirm-ntive-vote -to .found a new party; and as soon as. the timo camo in the fall of that j'oar, that determination wag put into practical form. The nomination of Mr. Cutler clearly almost avowedly by the church influence, was merely an incident in support of the proposition that tho church can control in politics, and does control. TIia Stanrlfirrl nqkc trhnf Thn Trihiinp has gained by. leaving tho Republican party. The answer ie, it has gained a self-respect that was impossible while doing political parly scrvico.for cedes-insts. cedes-insts. To the plea that "within the party" is tho place to fight party evils, the reply is that it was :v condition not only "within the party," but in both parties, and controlling tho whole Stato; it was, besides, an absolutely controlling control-ling condition, resistless, overwhelming. And The Tribuno, in going with the American party movement, has achieved splendid results in awakening the people peo-ple to their rights, and to tho true Re-" publican view that they.nre of right free from all ccclesiasticnl or other extraneous ex-traneous control in their civic, their political, po-litical, their business, and other temporal tem-poral affairs. The Tribune" is an educational edu-cational force outside of tho old parties such ns it could not possibb' hope to bo whilo within either of them. If it were jn the church Republican party, for instance, and fought the church dominance, it would be charged with "soroheadism" because it could not run things to suit itself, whenover it objected lo the church intrusion and monopolization; and it would bo invited, in-vited, with sneers, to lcavo the party if it didn't liko the party nction. So thero is absolutely nothing in ihat view. "Reform within tho part', " with unscrupulous un-scrupulous arrogance fully entrenched and nmplc voles to sustain it, deliverable deliver-able at call, is a delusion and a snare", and whoso trusteth therein is sure lo get an eye-openor which lendcth to blackness |