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Show I A C03D WORD FROM BOiSE- The B' ,, 'Idaho, S'fit sinn. ,'publisi s theleltr of Mr. Fred j Turner of !''. ci'y, rs 't apprl !in The Nation and Tiibune, and ' com meets ttureori follows. The Statesman's rernaiks are each as must hva great wembt with the people of 0 che c ui-ty, j old party will pet into a pestioi where they can feel in real liar mony wit, i it, but tite j ht J pass their hopes fail of nalizi-! nalizi-! tion . The old party continues to j make the blunders tbtit are char-j char-j acteristic of senility aud opoit'in-j opoit'in-j ism, while the ether contioms to s tike out alone; the pathway of prcgrese, striving to do the bet-t possible With the light that is f and a grhtilj ing PLdorsemtLt of Mr. Turnei's pcsiti-i'i. Thp Salt Lake Tribune pub'ish-es pub'ish-es a lett jr fr tn a prominent man avr liable. Ihtse are they who are still willing to be Demo, rati i-, ij ''ne w'-ille they are Repu'i ' is Mt heart. When one reflects on their cfcsi s he cannot avoid wod-dering wod-dering bow long they w ill continue to stand in a . position tl at is at once so contradictory and eo unjust un-just to themselves. I of Cache county, Utib, iudoudc-jiog iudoudc-jiog Iss purptsi of severing bis connection with the Democratic party. The man is Fred Turner. He has long been prominent in the, county and, as a Democrat, has j been elected to positions of honor! ! and emolument. Tli;i mv.'s let- ter is very interesting, 9 it con-i con-i : ttins sentiments that mn9t often stir the minds of many others who ! are effiliated with the Democratic I pirty. It will be ol s-Mved that the wri- I I r of the lttter 6ties he went :u- I j to the Democratic part without (much study aud had been loyal to it eyer since. But recently he had j given more thought to the subject and had fouud that the Republican Republi-can party was more nearly in harmony har-mony with his views. That ap- plies with equal forjo to a great j tnult tude of men who were born j into the party. Down in Utah ' there was no national politics prior j to a few years ago, and men aligned j themselves od one side or the oth-j oth-j cr t-fter a division came without J nnv proper kne whdge f the con- ditioi s- Thht wi s no doubt the j cace with the writpr cf the IrTter j to the Tribune. It is also true i,f multitudes who came into the parity par-ity wnh their birth. Their fatheisj ;.d thrir ginrt'fhlhorr wS.e I Democrats. Their euvironmentl been Deioncratic: and they rt-- j maijFd Df mociatic rot withs'aDd-jingthat withs'aDd-jingthat -vfry political develop-meit develop-meit s geneiatiou and more h t-s been fub fs should cause I them to abandon that paity. It is a remaikable fact that ! thele are multitudes of youn men j in the Democratic paity solely be-; be-; cause they were born in Democratic Demo-cratic families. Their political views are all Republican. They ar1 unable to point out a single convincing reason why they should rtmain Democrats, Wten necessar' they talk about "Democratic "Demo-cratic piinciples." but thej cannot can-not paiticularize. If they under-j take to do bo. they find that the "prineip!. s" are the emj.ty theHsj of political life of 75 veajs ago land that the living principles er.t with the paity that b s done all itbat has been done for the country j during the past 19 years, j Again, it will be ncctice 1 thht j that Utah man, in manly frank-Inc-S8.drclar. s he will net longer j bear the Democratic name while being a Republics o at horrt. The Statesman hn-i Inowa a srreat many such. It bp eeeu them: come over into the' Republican j patty from families that have been Democrat!!? since the time of Jack-j sol'. In tveiy cade the-reaeonsj j influencing them are much the sme as those of the Utah maL jthey havj found that the Demo-jcraticisno Demo-jcraticisno h-nger the ulac for ithetn and they follow their principles princi-ples into the party that is their j living exponent. The Statfmen I also knows numbers who f-el the flame way but ennnot make r.p! their minds to break the family! chain of Democracy. They hang! on year aft-r year hoping that the |
