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Show H As To Politics THE TIMES, the organ of the only pure Democracy De-mocracy in this city, wabbles a little. Thus fiom its last edition: B "So far as may be judged from the discus- H; sion, it makes little difference to Democrats H whether there is a ticket placed in the field or H not. This is not the case, however, with Am- H - erlcans and the Republicans. They are both deep- H ly interested, not in behalf of the Democrats, but H in their own behalf. Their interest is wholly H selfish." H "Will it tell us what the interest of the Demo- H crats would be if they had the ghost of a chance H to win? What are their interests in states where H they rule? Are they all philanthropists? Where H they have half a chance to win, do they scruple H along sharp practice in order to win? H Is It not a trifle top-lofty, for a skeleton to H mount a dry-goods box and proclaim what it H voula be, could it but be clothed with flesh and H warmed by red blood? The American party is made up of men who, in H national politics are Republicans or Democrats. HI When the Democrats In the American party left HI their party to join in the fight to Americanize HI Utah, were they the original bad men in the HI Democratic party and, when they loft were those M remaining all angels? m Why not be frank and square and say if the H Democracy does not put a ticket in the field this H year it will be because the few who are loft in the organization feel that they have no possible chance to win? The Times expresses the opinion that only selfish interests actuate the American party. There is a selfish aide to all political organizations. organiza-tions. But there must be something more than selfishness in the hearts of men when they dissolve dis-solve the political relations that have held their allegiance all their lives and join a forlorn hope to try to vindicate the principles on which this Republic was founded, and which The Times editor knows have been trodden under foot in Utah most of the time for more than three score years? No matter how selfish individuals may be, it is a clear case that the demand which the American Ameri-can party makes, namely, that Utah shall be disenthralled, dis-enthralled, and that the men who abuse their power here shall come within the Constitution and laws of the United States and of the State of Utah, is a righteous one and is in the best interest of every man and woman and child in Utah, regardless of creed. Patrick Henry was an original Democrat. On one occasion he said: "We have petitioned, we have remonstrated, we have supplicated, we have prostrated ourselves before be-fore the throne." "Our petitions have bfeen slighted; our remonstrances have produced pro-duced additional violence and insult; our supplications suppli-cations have been disregarded, and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne." That was said 150 years ago, but does it need even to be paraphrased in order lo give It exact application in Utah? Henry's fin. conclusion con-clusion was that "We must fight." That became the final conclusion of the men who make up the American party, and before our contemporary flippantly decides that only selfishness selfish-ness is behind the party, it should first look across the sea to think and read anew the savage fact, that no priesthood which has seized upon temporal power in any land ever relinquished It save through force, and after that it may return and read a little more of that old speech from which we have quoted, where it says: "In vain after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free, if we wish to preserve inviolate the inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending, con-tending, We must fight" |