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Show WHAT THE EFFECT WOULD BE? The Ogden "Commercial" Shakes In Its Shoes Over the Prospects of a Political Division. What will be the effects on the politics poli-tics of Utah if the attempt to organize the Republican and Democratic parties, par-ties, inaugurated in Ogden, should be successful throughout the territory? The effects will be to destroy the Liberal Lib-eral party, to make the Mormon party victorious everywhere in the territory, and to produce the most stupendous political toadyism ever known on this continent. The political situation is as follows: The People's or Mormon party has an absolute majority of about 10,000 over all combined elements opposed to it. As a party, it has the most perfect and splendid organization ever known in the history of politics. Its organization organiza-tion is more complete in its details and under better discipline than the regular army of the United States. So thorough is its discipline that no thought of disobedience enters the minds of its voters. The principle most strongly inculcated is obedience to tho dictum of its rulers. Obligations as binding as any ever conferred by secret societies prevent disobedience. All this is reinforced by a strong feeling feel-ing of religious duty to protect the temporal interests of the church to which this army of voters belongs. This magnificent organization can be and is controlled by a central power that brooks neither interference, disobedience dis-obedience or rebellion. It should be further considered that this party looks npon this territory as its own special home, and that its most sacred duty is to protect and rule this territory. terri-tory. Iu several localities in Utah notably not-ably Salt Lake city, Ogden and Park City the united opposition against the People's partv, under the name of the Liberal party, has achieved victories. vic-tories. But such victories could only have been gained and can only be maintained t.y the same union of forces that won them. Is it reasonable to suppose for a moment that such a splendid and powerful organization as the People's party will disband and surrender certain cer-tain victory in the face of a vastly inferior political power that has only ffained a few footbold and yiropOfleS tO I dismember itself so that these"fef ' footholds can be retaken with a minimum mini-mum of effort? To suppose that this would be the case implies a belief in so remarkable a generosity and a giving up of advantage ad-vantage and power that it finds no parallel in politics or human nature. But it is urged that this process of dismemberment dis-memberment is already going on. In answer to that it can be said that the process, so far as heard from, is of too unimportant a character to form a basis tor such a statement. It is true that a few gentlemen of local prominence promi-nence in this city iiave identified themselves with this process, but their influence upon the great People's party is so far lackin-f in official significance signi-ficance that a whisper from Salt Lake city would blast"; the movement as frost destroys a delicate flower. Ogden Og-den Commercial. |