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Show It-Cannot Be Done. To those who are striving to keep alive the old issue here, the Times would say that it cannot be done. The Liberal Democrats may hold meetings, the Liberal Republicans may hold meetings together. They may raise funds, issue manifestoes and crack the whip, but the new movement will roll on irresistibly. If any evidence upon this point is needed it is found in the retreat of the men who are opposing party organization. or-ganization. That they have retreated cannot be denied. It has not been but i few weeks since they publicly proclaimed that they did not believe the church was sincere in its renunciation renun-ciation of polygamy. The agitation that has been in progress has developed devel-oped the fact that the great majority of citizens do believe in the sincerity of that renunciation; and the opponents oppo-nents of that organization have fallen back upon their reserve works. They admit that polygamy, as an institution institu-tion in Utah, is dead. Individually this admission is almost uuiyersal, while the liberal committee uses language that is tantamount to the same thing. But these people insist that the Mormon vote is in the hands of the priesthood, and that there is some hidden purpsoe behind the expresed desire among People's party men to affiliate with the great national organization. It is admitted by all candid men that if the People's party is sincere the miss;on of the Liberal party must be regarded closed. On every band we hear this declaration; 'If they are sincere it is ali right, but what evidence have we that thev are?" Now, gentlemen, let th e Time ask you one question: What evidence nave you that that are not sincere? Let it follow ttiis up with another: What h ive you to offset the manv evidences of sincerity that do exist ? " The movement cannot be stopped. When spring comes the birds begin to take flight and wing their way n rth-ward rth-ward from their southern hiding places. The migration is slow av. first; cold blasts greet those that first venture and keep others back; but byo and bye nature teaches them all that the time for them has fully come and their winter win-ter haunts are soon deserted. For forty years a political winter has reigned in Utah, but the spring is now here and a migration from old to new political haunts has begun. The Liberal Lib-eral meetings and the manifestoes, and the newspaper pillorinps are the cold blasts that keep some of the geese back for a time, but shortly all will find that the summer is upon thorn and that they must move if they would be "in it" in the future. limes. |
