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Show THE WRONG OF IT. Suppose the electoral vote of Utah should be cast for Parker and Davis, how would tho great new American party stand? Would it get any recruits from the Democratic ranks? Not one. And in what humor would any sincere Republican Republi-can be, if approached and asked to join the organization? or-ganization? Would not he say: "In as much as you, without principle, started this movement sdle-ly sdle-ly to defeat my party, state and national, and in as much as you have succeeded, would it not be just as well for you to look to the party you have given power to, for your followers?" Three months ago, there was no doubt as to where Utah would be found on election, day. If by the springing of this party the Republican ticket, State and National, happens to be defeated, the bitterness of sincere Republicans will not be assuaged. They will not feel kindly towards the men who originated it; the feeling toward the real original mover will be somethink akin to hate. When a man gets off1 wrong, if he is sincere, his vagary will be forgiven by generous men, but when it is clear that his work is but that of a revengeful re-vengeful soul, determined to rule things, or smasn things, then he is not forgiven or forgivable. In this case that bitterness will be intensified by the thought of the utter causelessness of the outrage. Had Senator Kearns been a sincere Republican, Republi-can, he would have reasoned that it was better to have a Republican administration, that the defeat of Roosevelt and the election of Parker would be simply a national calamity, and this movement can wait two months; indeed, it would be perfidy, almost treason to start it now. But he did not reason that way. In his undisciplined un-disciplined soul, the gratification of his spites and his vindictiveness was more than any interest that he felt in any part or in any carrying out of any great national principles, more indeed than was, any concernment of his, lest the sufferings of 1893, '94 and '95 should bo repeated. He might 'have made this movement a ladder up which he might have walked to higher honors than he could ever buy. As it is, If he carries all his points, the party he favors will never as much as toss him a bouquet, while the party he has betrayed, will come nearer hating him than they ever came near hating any mortal before, because politics with sincere men is not a mere gamble for personal gain, but a something which goes to the very integrity in-tegrity of the nation and the happiness of the people. And when a man has been given exalted station in the name of a party which ho should of right bo the standard-bearer of, and then at a critical moment betrays it and seeks to deliver it to its chiefest enemy, such a man does not get forgiveness for-giveness in this world, he should not in the next. |