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Show THE SITUATION. Itisindeed a situation that con-fronts.noi con-fronts.noi us of the puie-b! ode I Democratic Demo-cratic faith, bat our frisnds. the enemies. ene-mies. The situation, summarize! in as a brief synopsis as possible, is simply this: The best minds ami the truest heaits of the territory had come to in umbr-standmg umbr-standmg of the fact (u: till a ear or so ago, almcst onh a vis;ona'y dream of a few optimists) thai a change in our political complexion was not only feasible fea-sible under the ciicumsiances of the meseut, but ompul.-ory under the exigencies ex-igencies of the lui ore. as cleariy sten ov far-sighted patriots. Tuis change .insisted ,u the abolition ol the "ia-e .l.itied" that had been we g-dng as a nightmare upon the f ir nosoiu of Utah iiid t-nde I topnalze all h;r ac ion ind stun her ami -it u-:S. The incubus nad to be lifted off ere tnere c uld be a free and untrammeled circulation circu-lation of the vital fluid through the political, po-litical, social, and commercial system of the entire community, the best strength and noblest eii'oits of which were being wasted by the maintenance of a struggle, justly defensive ou one side, and an agi es-ive, no longer justifiable, jus-tifiable, one on the other side. Though liable to be charged with warinhnr up siahi broth, we must reit-' reit-' ei ate the simple, but stet 1-hard staie-"inent staie-"inent that "the polygamy obstruction neing entirely removed fro in the social horizon, and the "church and stale,"' or "priesthood-rule" phantom having evaporated into ilhtantly evanescent air, tin-re was no longer any necessin for a Liberal party in Utah, not in the -ense of its inception or the spirit ol ts recent management. The casus belli having been removed, there could no longer exist any necessity, or even excuse for bebigeients, notli'iig remaining re-maining but a few p 'lupous drum majors and some more hungry camp-followers, camp-followers, with a few pious army chaplains. chap-lains. The Liberal party, i. e. the as-sitied as-sitied organization that had outlined the vital life of moial strength refusing to allow itself to be quietly hid away and the ossuaiyof other relics of ihe past, the People's party, neveitheless, recognized that the day had come for i;s honorable l!ejue,n, with the Ilesuig-unum Ilesuig-unum of new and vitalized bodies, standing on national platforms with national adhesion and historic fund-mentality. fund-mentality. The People's party, in dissolving dis-solving itself, could well leave the future fu-ture safety of the rights of the people with the ambitious young saucess rs to its honorable past, career. It could .rust in the new parties t i take care of the social and material, as well as political and ideal i interests of th.' people, and let the Liberal Lib-eral paity tlie rag-tatr and bob-tail that might still letain the stickiness of slime con inue its existence and crawl, sprawl, and spawn along till it would die of its owe ordures. Ti.e new-parties, new-parties, the "DivNiouists," would keep the hydra throttled, though they might not vet be fully enabled, as the case might be, to cut otf all the envenomed heads at one final suoop. Mon ay, the third day of August, justified the confidence of the leaders of the People's party, that, by disbanding disband-ing their loyal hosts after honorable discharge, the masses would ally themselves, them-selves, according to their individual individ-ual intelligence and discernment, with ne or the other of the two ureat national na-tional parties, and find all the leadership leader-ship requisite to marshal them into successful cohorts. As the French used !o exclaim at the (loath of a monarch: "The king is dead, long live the king!'' so it was fairly and truly announced: "The People's party is dead -long live the people !" And the people live. Republicans Re-publicans and Democrat, and the Liberal Lib-eral party has only had another galvanic galvan-ic shock of art ifl - al resuscitation. The situ ttiou ia -dmoly th it tin Lib erals are no noarer to, nay, much farther far-ther froai the att tin n -ut, of t:iiir unhallowed un-hallowed ambition, than they feare I themselves. Their gains arc fictitious and imaginary, and 0'it. of all proportion propor-tion with th. inllation of their hopes, the immensity of their arrogance, and the sordidness of their motives. The People's party's mantle has fallen upon voung but vigorous shoulders, should ers strong enough to catry the vast burden of governmental administration administra-tion in Utah. And these shoulders are bearing aloft the lovely, proud and triumphant head of Democracy they, themselves, upborne up-borne and upheld by the inviolate and immaculate, incorruptible and i:i-domitable i:i-domitable of the People, who have maintained their loyalty and power in the maintenance of local self-government, unimpeded by a non-progressive paternalism or favoring of the few toj the detriment and spoliation of the many. Again, we come to a closer clinching of the situation : Democracy has won j the great battle for the People, Democ- j racy, uninspired by outside influences ! and undeterred by brutal insinuati 'lis, J has met the common enemy the Lib- j eial party and defeated it with a bold right-hander, at the same time dealing j the enemy No. 2, (loved uon the more, j only feared the less remotely under ex- j isting local circumstances) we mean j the Republican party a "stinger," I from which it will never awaken long enough to take to itself even a mite s I share of the defeat of the Liberal par- j ty the common foe to all the best interests in-terests of Utah's common people. The situation, grasped in the shortest short-est and strongest coil oi one sentence,: is: Utah is Democratic. |