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Show REPUBLICANISM-INDUSTRIALISM It is a broadly known fact that in the i very crowd of industrials lately squatting squat-ting on the bleak banks of the city ditch within the corporate limits of Provo, are many men who have been conspicuous voters and workers in the liberal ranks, in former years, in Salt Lake city. Doubtless many of the trainmen on the Western recognize old familiar faces among; them. That was in the days when liberalism and republicanism were engaged together to beat the people's party. It wiil cot be forgotten that it has often in the past been charged that the Western was deep in sympathy with the objects for which they were then struggling, However this may now be, it is certain that there ia a close affinity between the present leading republicans and the leaders of the industrial "armies," "Scratch a wealei's back and a republican repub-lican will groan." It wont do to say that this situation is due to the fact' that the administration administra-tion of the law is in the hands of the democrats and that of course the republicans re-publicans naturally sympathize Aith those who are arrested and held by democratic officers. We fear that the matter isfar less innocent than that, the evident good fellowship existing belongs rather to a community of interests, in-terests, purposes and principles, be tween tna parties to cms lawlessness, rather than to any purpose or fact of an effort to bring upon the democratic executive officers of the territory the simple odium of failure to execute the law. The sympathy exhibited here on . Saturday last for the wealers was undeniably un-deniably exhibited by republicans. The -Enquirer was tooth and toe nail on the side of the lawless horde and all the men it panted to see the wealers duck and maltreat, were democrats. demo-crats. Isot one republican among the crowd that day but who went with the Enquirer in its grotesque patting of the wealers on the back. The v bondemen of Mr. Carter are ail pro mi- I nent Salt Lake republicans, or liberals, which is much the same thing:. To the thoughtful Mormon people who have, from a mistaken idea of independence, thrown their allegiance to the republican republi-can party these reflections cannot fail to prove interesting. They will ask : "Is it possible that I have not only been throwing my sympathy, support and voteB to the bitter enemies of my faith, but by the sympathies I have manifested, encouraged these same men in their wild attempt to set aside the law and inaugurate the reign of anarchy, the subversion of all law?" If their reflections were to take this direction, they would not be .far from the correct lie, but there would be precious little satisfaction in it to one 5 of the old faith . no matter how sud-denlv sud-denlv or violently his can version rn r. publicanismor liberalism had been. The democratic party of this territory stands in the attitude today of being the only law and order party in it. The Tribune, the great mouth piece of both republicanism and liberaliem, is also the champion, the tearful sympathetic champion of the industrials. Cannot our people make the application? The forces standing behind the administration adminis-tration of law here, this day, are democratic, dem-ocratic, and democratic only. Surely no part of it i republican and equally no part of it ia liberal. |