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Show THE LOCAL POLITICAL FIELD. ' Uitiier on recount of a confi dence that the "Mormons" of Utah will shortly bo disfranchised, or I-rause I-rause of the fact that long continued i harmony among the uncongenial and contentious elements that were amalgamated beneath tho carpet lag emblem during the last city campaign, warring factious are fast forming in the "Liberal" camp. Of course if the "Mormons" are all to be excluded from participation in the political privileges that, under the CosKitution, belong to American Ameri-can citizens, the motive which produced pro-duced temporary unity of action among the rank and file of their ft-es, will be w holly lacking. A glmce over tho local political i field reeals a remarkable scene. j With what they believe to be good prospects of success, some of the minority are working for the disfranchisement of the , members of the party which is in the overwhelming majority. ma-jority. This minority comprises one of the mot extraordinary conglomerations con-glomerations of disjointed and incongruous in-congruous parts that were ever seen engaged in united action in the politic)) of this country. It-publican political htck-, who tried to gain a hviug by their wits where they formerly redded, but failed for lack of capital to start ith; Democratic Demo-cratic schemers who became odious to tho commuuiiios that came to knov tbem best, and showed their respect for public opinion opin-ion by running away from it; prohibitionists and preachers who pO"-d at their former homes as op- jwnenu 01 me rum trallic, Lut who, in Utah, engage in a Saturday Satur-day night political jollilicaUou in company with jalojn-keepen, until ' they forget that Sunday follows the I Ml day of tho week; greenbackers. goidites and silver money men; freo traders and protectionists; Catholics, Protestants, infidels and Jews; Sanday school workers and gambling den proprietors; class, leaders an J banko steerers; colporteurs col-porteurs and libertines, all thee with maay other elements between r ' and among whom an equally strik- J , J in5 contrast exists, iucluding a sporadic sprinkling of honest men, a . were gathered into the fold of the "Liberal" party for the rurpces of ' the late cily cli clion. If the disaster of disfranchle- i incnt shall actually be precipitated j upon the "Mormon" people by the - effertsof their enemies, it will bea , ., 3 coiiSolaiion which will go far to- f 1 1 w ards of&etling tho deprivation for 'j j tho former to realize that one result j of it is to relieve them of tho neces- 2 j eity of mingling In political contests 1 with such undcanncss. This is, 1 Indeed, a world of compensation?. "Sof, that Its commou opponent may loalbly be placed hors de combat, a commotion is agitating tills mass of warring niaterialsr untll it presents something of the aspect of a menagerie, which, in a moment of common com-mon terror, has huddled together in the samo retreat, but engages in the uproar natural to the animals included in-cluded in it, as soon as the danger is past. There were very few lions embraced In tho aggregation which went to tho polls under the carpetbag carpet-bag emblem, and what few there were seem to have retired out of sight into tlie woods of private pursuits. pur-suits. But in the local arena ofpub-lic ofpub-lic life and political strife there area few tigers, more hyenas, with wohes and jackals in cufllclent abundance to take caro of such ofTal as may fall within their reach in the w ay of municipal patronage. As was to have been expected, mutual confidence is an Impossibility Impossi-bility among the members of the "Uberal" party, lbe crimes by which its leaders won the election aro notorious-, and the extent to which candidates and party woikcrs participated in and endorsed these 3 (Tenses, woulJ,ex elusive, of all other causes, spread distrust and demoral- ritlmi Bniftnc thm- Tliprpfhrw It . Is tlie common practice among the prominent members of the"party, ' in and out of office, for each to speak of the other In terms that correspond with the knowledgo which each has of the other's cam-algn cam-algn methods, and general moral qualities. In proof of the light in which prominent "Liberals" think and speak vf each other, it is only necessary neces-sary to read the city papers for a short timo back, and li'ten to the talk on the street. If present indications indi-cations presage correctly the Immediate Im-mediate future, It Will not lw long before factious of the party now iu power will rise up against each other with more hatred and bitterness than they liac displayed towards the People's Party, reiterating against each other charges of corruption, a suspicion of which ncer existed against officeholders office-holders of the latter. If a fraction of what Liberal" leaders say of each other, or of w hat tho chief "Liberal" organ says of office holders of its party is true, the political speakers who warned the people of what would follow "Liberal" "Lib-eral" success, are abundantly justified justi-fied in saying, before ninety days of that party's rule hae expired, "I tsld y ou so." This being the case so soon, what may we expect before the two years' term ends for which the city must remain under tho control of a municipal munici-pal government, some of the members of which arc denounced by their own organ and constituents as dishonest? It may even happen that honesty-loving "Liberals" will work to scat the contesting People's Party members, that al least one clement of probity may be injected into the control of municipal affairs. |
