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Show Political Parties in Utah. The Salt Lake Herald still continues its dirty partican assertion that the Republican party and the Liberal party in Utah mean the same. Referring to comments of a New York paper on the recent election in Utha the Herald: says: The Times correctly classes Liberals and Republicans as affiliated in principle, and points out that it was the perversity of the former faction which prevented the Republicans form casting a majority of the votes. Admitting that 80 or 90 per cent of Liberals who are Repiblicans in national politics, the Herald confesses that if the Liberal party were to disband, the contest between Republicans and Democrates would be much closer and more interacting than the late struggle was: nevertheless, the Democrats have no linger any nervousness regarding the politics of the territory. The Salt Lake Times, after branding as a lie the asssertion that the Liberal and the Republican party ave aims in common, proceeds to deny the statement that 80 or 90 per cent of the Liberal party will become Republicans when the Liberal party disbands. It says: Now let us take a glance at this statement that 80 or 90 per cent of the Liberals are Republicans. It is a rosy estimate, but it is too high by a good many. There is no doubt that 80 or 90 per cent of the intelligent men in Liberal ranks are Republicans, but if any body thinks that the Republican party will ever secure such a proportion of the votes cast by the Liberaals last week his is very much mistaken. There is a large element that voted with the Liberals that is always Democratic in every community and will be so here. The Republicans will get a very large percentage of the thinking, industrious, conscientious men who have operated with the Liberals, but when the "rounder" element comes to be counted it will be found with the Democracy. This will cut down the Republican percentage of the whole to perhaps 65 per cent. The criminals, the loafers, the tin horns, and all the "scum of the earth" who voted the Liberal tickets will go over almost solidly to the Democratic party. It has been so in every city on the continent, and will be so here. Democracy always appeals to that class and always secures its support. The Republicans do not count on it and are seldom willing to make any overtures to win their votes. Judging from the class of Liberals who have taken sides in the division movement, one is led to believe that the estimate of the Salt Lake Times is about correct. So far the better class of Liberals have allied themselves with the Republican party, while the carpet-bag element have turned Democrate, and is it not fair to presume that this rule will be kept up? |