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Show (UTAH'S HAPPY FAMILY. . The harmony among the Utah re publicans ib very edifying. It iB piled up in immense masses and there is enough and to Epare. Now for fear the Ogden Standard will again mistake we append the label, "This is a Joak." The Tribune has been consistent con-sistent only upon one proposition and that is free coinage. It has been instant in-stant in season and out in the cause of free silver. Indeed it has fought a noble battle for the white money of the poor. It has all along .insisted that our present hard times has been . caused mainly by the sin of demoneti zation, which bit of national throat-cutting throat-cutting waB consumated in '73 under the auspices of John feherman and the republican party. The Ogden Standard Stand-ard is not quite sure whether demonetization demone-tization is the work of the republican or the democratic party, but it is fully convinced that the Ohio platform is a bad bit of business for the g. o. p. in Utah. The Enquirer mounts the judge's seat aod declares both of its confreres out of order and reads the riot act to them sharply. The latter dossn't believe it, knows, that demone-s demone-s tization has had nothing to do with hard times or wealer distress, but that ein is to be laid at the door of tariff reform re-form only. The profundity of its knowledge of financial science is the wonder of the thinking world. Its light is not to be hid under a bushel nor even a bottom -up Dutch mud scow in the Scheld. Now, of the three leading lead-ing republican papers, unquestionably the Standard occupies the best position. posi-tion. Its franknesn, at least, is commendable com-mendable while the other two hold entirely untenable positions. Tne Standard, while rejecting the Ohio platform, displays the red flag of anarchy and this fact will serve to keep it in line with the party in Utah. The Tribute, when it charges that de monetization is the cause of our present pres-ent deplorable situation as a nation, by implication, at least, places the odium upon the shoulders of the same republican repub-lican party which demonetized silver in '73. Now the Enquirer disputes " '" '"'i- both positions and iiga up the cause from the depths of tariff reform, or free trade, when it knows that we are living today under the same tariff laws which were in force when Harrison I went out, the period, it claims, of our highest national prosperity. Now here is reason, sense and truth for you in almost unlimited supply. We care nothing for this condition of hostility among the dissevered elements ele-ments of the hypocritical republican party, only that it indicates the fate c f the house which is divided, which IIolv Writ rlplRfps must fall Onl I wee bit Eince all these great journals of republican progress were twitting the democracy of Utah for writing no platforms. A platform written bj these three leading republican intelligences intelli-gences would go far beyond that Ohio effort in inconsistency. It would indeed in-deed be a queer platform. Wealer-wisdom, Wealer-wisdom, silver devotion, anarchy, Mc-Kinleyism Mc-Kinleyism and the Lord only knows what else besides, with red flags struck all over it. Now we promise our friends the enemy a bit of a platform soon upon which every democrat in Utah will plant himself with enthusiasm, and the most infernal drubbiDg the repub licansofthe territory have had since liberalism and republicanism were married for "enduring the war" as the southern negroes used to say during the la-.e unpleasantness. Aye, indeed, while the happy family remains in its present happy frame of mind, it will need no trick to lick 'em in good ehepe. |