Show ANOTHER DISPLAY OF liberalism THE liberal organ in this city makes a greit great flourish of trumpets over a letter said to have been written in may 1890 by mr jesse B barton ogden and picked up in CI cimarron marron new mexico coby by a person named lyon it will be remembered that mr barton entered suit against the tribune some time ago for libel and that josue issue in the matter has been procrastinated in the usual way with the defendants there is no libel in the publication pub libation of this letter providing it is genuine and that the tribune has not garbled and otherwise improperly manipulated it mr barton will no doubt look after that himself but the tribune attaches great in to the letter and considers it throws thrown a whole flood of light upon certain events and endeavors to magnify the matter so as to make a monster mountain out of a diminutive molehill mole bill here is in the communication alleged to have been received by the tribune D fane from a liberal eliberal CIMARRON N M feb 5 1892 my dear sir I 1 see it stated by the newspapers that it is suspected that the national democratic committee is providing means for carrying on the campaign ign for that party at salt lake here ne is an old letter that may throw a little lighton light on the subject I 1 picked the letter up in this place and saved it thinking ak might be of some service some time and hope it may do the liberal party some good yours truly H H LYON this thin is a characteristic Libe liberal raP transaction the picking up of private letters and their publication in the liberal organ to Is a common ex hibl hibi tion of the gentlemanly course that is in usual with some of that fraternity how long the liberal picker up saved this letter that belonged not to him but to the gentleman to whom it was addressed does not appear as the date of its appropriation is not given but since the letter has been made public property and an endeavor has been made to connect it with events on which it has no bearing we clip it as published that our read enand those especially who know the causes which have led up to present conditions waysee may see how the liberal organ catches at the shadow of a straw to make of it a raft on which to float a falsehood to the honorable senate and house of representatives of the united states in congress assembled the undersigned undersigner under signed n non on mormon citizens of the united states and utah territory respectfully protest against the passage of the bills introduced by senator cullom of illinois and by representatives stewart of vermont and stubble of iowa having for their object the dis francU of all believers in the mormon creed for the following reasons that for some time past there has been a successful effort to bury the difference of e ram and unite the business en in utah territory T in various enterprises in mutual material benefits co partnerships associations boards of trade and chain chambers of commerce have been formed and are 4 composed om posed of mormons cormons and non mor jhons and the former bitterness of feeling has subsided the disfranchisement of one class of our citizens will revive the old antagonism and must work dasas to 10 the interests of the territory and stay the tide of its progress we therefore respectfully ask your honorable body not to pass either of these extraordinary and mistaken mea measures suns but to leave all citizens of utah who are willing to take the oath proscribed prescribed by the act ot of congress of march 3rd ard 1887 in the enjoyment of such liberties as remain to them under the laws in this territory and your petitioners petition ers will ever pray etc weber county utah may 9 1890 OGDEN may 12 1890 erskine M esq dear sir yours of may ath was just roce received ived and I 1 hasten to lay before you some gome other facts in relation to political affairs in utah I 1 write on I 1 this his sheet onset because I 1 wanted to show you a form of petition which is being signed by nearly e every v e ry non mormon in ogden I 1 have w written r itten to senator brice but I 1 had to introduce myself to him as an iroquois club man and named my references but I 1 should like to interest him in affairs here I 1 want also to say that I 1 have no political oll axe to grind I 1 want no office tut but I 1 do want to see utah admitted some day as a democratic state stale last february a municipal election was held in salt lake city and I 1 was there from november till after election first for the purpose of looking after some me detectives which captain blofield Bd ofield sent ent out to ferret out election and registration frauds and second to advise and counsel with the campaign committee of the mormon or peoples party I 1 got soundly abused abu ed by the liberal press and members of that party but I 1 concluded to remain in the territory and practice law the liberal party is composed of first those fellows who are always fighting the most powerful party second republicans in communication with the government at washington and in accord with its policy of depriving the mormons cormons of their votes either by legislation or by frauds third of democrats who held office and failed to seduce mor mons into paying them bribes or who hold bold over and join in the policy of the republicans to retain office aud and fourth the great number who naturally prejudiced against a religion dif different feren freau from their own have freely swallowed and beloved the monstrous stories told them of mormon crimes and mormon treason one of the elements in carrying the election in salt lake in february was ian an 8 alliance aliance with the laboring men brought about by importing a labor agitator named 0 obrien brien he was promised something for himself and the le labor party but the promises prom ses were not kept and he is now denouncing the liberals jand nd trying to organize a democratic party this man is somewhat of a sand lot orator but his movement has the wrong basis to take firm hold hold unless other influences are brought to bear and the other elements added yet I 1 think it could be turned to good account and a permanent organization built up from it not only in salt lake county but in other counties my idea is to encourage adi obrien brien and get him to organize a party system lix in salt lake weber utah and juab counties and to make nominations in those counties for the election of county officers in august I 1 think that I 1 can manage the mormons cormons so co that while they will retain their organizations under the name of the peoples party in those counties that they chev will cast enough votes for foe democratic candidates to encourage the establishment of permanent organizations tor november when a coll congressional ess ional delegate will be elected and I 1 think I 1 can so mani manipulate eulate affairs that we can nominate a democrat J for delegate who will not be e inimical to them and call out their full vote and elect him that if successful will dissolve the peoples perty for all time and unite in democratic party all mormon and gentile democrats and force the other side into a republican organization in order to accomplish this I 1 should have a letter from senator brice as chairman of the national committee addressed to F B obrien salt lake city convincing obrien that I 1 was in communication with brice and acting with his approval that is establishing and confirming confide confidence nee in me and I 1 should have some general letter from the chairman which I 1 could show to my mormon friends assuring them of democratic assistance si of course ou on the theory that poly polygamy garby is absolutely under control and I 1 can assure you it is thet e are my suggestions if any other course is better I 1 am willing to obey orders but I 1 think the time is ripe to establish democratic supremacy in in utah 1 I feel satisfied that I 1 can influence the mormon element if I 1 can give them assurance that when the party is once permanently manent ly organized there will be no discrimination on account of religious belief I 1 shall wait impatiently an answer to this letter believing that we should act all possible promptness very respectfully B BARTON the petition forwarded to washington of which the above gives a copy with similar petitions from other bustness business men put a quietus on the pet measure of the tribune and its allies and aad killed the infamous ambus instrument for political assassination nation which its editor fostered and fondled so BO tenderly the description given of the liberal aall faction and its metco Is will be recognized by the public as accurate wid and pointed the election of a democratic delegate therein alluded to if it did not mean john T gained caine Is reelection was wag simply a notion of the writer writers wr itera 99 which with bis bin project for nominations in the counties went no further than his bis suggestion in the letter we question very much if anybody else in utah ever heard beard of it the dissolution of the Pe peoples orles party pany was not an original idea with mr barton as it had been broached and discussed for years among its own leading members and we speak what we know in affirming that when the party was dissolved neither mr bar ton nor mr phelps whoever he be may be was beard from or considered nor was any communication presented from any leading democrat democrat or republican mr barton had his bis own opinion on this matter in common with hundreds of other gentlemen who desired the organization of the national parties of utah but whatever influence he may have hare had among bis bin associates in ogden it cut no DO figure whatever with the territorial committee nor with the peoples peopled party as a whole who know that none of the persons or particulars alluded to in the letter were ever mentioned when steps were taken for dissolution that the division movement did not originate with the writer of that letter is well known to hundreds of members of the late peoples party who sprang the question of division many times before ever mr barton came to the territory that he be is a friend to utah that he is abound a sound democrat that he hb has been made doubly interested in the welfare of this community through the agan scandalous dalous treatment menthe he received from the tribune are well known facts that he had bad a right to express his opinions to influential friends by letter or r otherwise no one will deny but we are not so sure that decent people will consider private letters should be treated as public property nor that gentlemen of any party will approve of the course taken by the liberal at cimmaron maron or the paper that has made itself a party to his misappropriation of the property of another |