Show LOCAL newspapers STANDING thic THE salt lake tanas has squarely put itself in line with the newly organized republican party iu in this county and may accordingly be regarded as the particular organ and champion of the movement the herald of course to is as valiantly democratic this gives each national party a local journal in which to expound its doctrines and defend its policies an and u it may be certain that whoever from this time on is unable to compare to the satisfaction of his bis own mind the respective spec tive beauties of the policy of centralization with those of the doctrine of states rights as well as the soundness sou nd of the policy of protection with that of free or freer trade will have to admit that his own unwillingness alone stands in the way the issue to is made and the lines are drawn the bloodless contest is sure to be interesting and it ought to be instructive the attitude of our anti mormon morning during these pregnant days is one of singular con sis tency it has many a time and oft repudiated the charge that it is an democratic antidemocratic anti sheet and it would fain masquerade as the true lover of any and a nd all parties who possessed the one qualification of undying hatred to the settlers and the people of utah yet it has ever been a republican organ at heart beart land and has championed with its ablest endeavors the cause of the grand old party in even its most radical features hence it contented itself with mildly ridiculing the democratic movement which came into active life here two weeks ago it apparently it care what the democrats did anyway it could still be outwardly liberal 11 1 1 and more staunchly republican but what a change when the leaven began to work among the republicans Republic anal then its fury knew no bounds it accused many ot its old time friends with hypocrisy suggested 9 ug improbable bargains that had bad been made railed balled at the stupidity of its sometime adherents who showed an inclination to break the leading is strings with which it had held them and finally it came out with studied insults and brutal innuendoes against the men who had bad fallen under its dippl displeasure assure it has succeeded therefore in the short abort space of three weeks in im proclaiming itself not nos only anti mormon but also democratic antidemocratic anti and anti reau republic bli can it to is left almost without party and hence without policy its floun demings in the depths of desperation would be pitiful if they were not so ludicrous it is now more defiantly than ever the enemy of the ad advance vance ment of the territory aud and has again given proof of what we have always claimed that peace was its nightmare and incessant Inces hate and warfare against the general prosperity the food upon which it reveled and gorged itself |