Show THE POLITICAL SITUATION Is the democratic scheme to beat the republican party u ci unta inin a party mich lias iw nothing to t fight for republicans should lot not ficht shadows EDITOR THE tirs DA DAnn there Is beina being published by the ogden commercial tha the me too or feeble echo I 1 of the salt lake like tribune a call for a liberal county convention it sets forth that the convention will be held hold for the purpose of nominating candidates for the offices to voted on the third day ot of august 1891 and of taking such action aa as the political situation in the territory demands this call is signed by M A AL breeden c chairman hair mau major breeden is a member ot of the ogden aden and weber county republican clu and alao also of the fourth nard ward n ard republican club of this city and it is there therefore ore to be presumed that be he la Is a republican it is fa my individual opinion that the i gentleman is a republican stanch and ad n true lie ile showed bis his devotion deviation to republicanism by helping to fight the battles of the union when democratic c traitors thrust the knife of socratic ee cession into the throat of the nation I 1 honor him aa an an american Amer iran patriot and esteem him as a gentleman sins an pew el et sani sans rt re and am proud to acknowledge uia tile friendship but major breeden and I 1 dont consider the present political situation in utah territory and weber county from the same standpoint I 1 know that be tie does not mean to go into a fight except be have havo an enemy in front of him and I 1 do not believe bellevo that ha he would knowingly stab to the heart the party of his first love tho the grand and glorious old republican party that made it possible to apell barty his nation with a great big N see but ut it is my opinion that this will be the inevitable result ot of attempting to long longer r maintain the liberal party as a political in this county ud and terr territory atory and speaking as a lifelong life long republican I 1 say that I 1 hope the republicans who are still clinging to the liberal ship which is bailing sailing to the port of 0 perdition with a democratic pilot at the belm will let et go their hold and return garnto to where they belong before powers the unscrupulous schemer shall succeed in his probable purpose 0 of holding the dismantled bulk to geber long enough to allow the democrats to thoroughly perfect their organization BO so as to give them an advantage over the republicans which may not be recovered for a generation republicans unless demagogues dont myths they dont combat shadows but that I 1 is just I 1 as t what the liberal party must do to aa in the future it i it live BS as a party if it this be not so I 1 as a republican and cou consistent alsten it ex liberal whose record as euch ouch la is not and cannot be Im impeached peRched would like to be informed against a alast whom or what it does intend to wago wage warfare I 1 believe with judge zane and sir mr that a political party cannot ba be maintained on the gospel of hale hate As I 1 view the political situation in this territory the division divi eion of parties upon ra national nation al lines it isan an accomplished d fact fa ct I 1 and d the liberal party can n never again become prominent in the settlement of such questions as will come beferie the people for discussion and determination looking at the matter matte r in this light it really does seem inexplicable to me that citizens claiming to be republicans should for even one moment withhold their allegiance legi ance from their own the republican party when it sorely needs their assistance in throwing down their ancient enemy t the he treasonable pro english free trade ua un american democratic party I 1 am aware that SOMO republicans Republic ana and some democrats profess to believe that the time has not come when utah citizens can safely divide on national political lines I 1 know aleo also that hundreds of as good republicans as ever lived entertain an exactly opposite view and that among them are many who in past years when there an apparent reason for it were as stanch liberals as any of those who are today to day seeking to prolong tha the life ot of the liberal party after the issues which called it into existence bavo have been bellied settled now there is one thine thing that I 1 do desire as a republican Reub licAn to call to the attention ott ot the a republicans of weber county it is B e fact and arid yon you know it as well as 1 thattie liberal party of this city and codney h has in always been composed A of republicans and democrats in the proportion portion of about ten of the former to three of the latter and that for the past few years the control of the machinery of the earty in this city has his been in the anda of I 1 Son southern thern ex rebels and those who w bo were we re known tn in former ormer times as northern copperheads copper heads well these men so with ith very few exceptions b have left lef t the liberal party and got u right where they belong in the ranks ot of the organized organ zd democratic party the situation then ia is just this if the republican unite and go into their own organized party en manse masse they can carry weber county at the next nt election II 11 the democratic scherner to hold them in the liberal party succeeds the republican party may be beaten in august while the he I 1 liberal parly party cannot by any an possibility win the only hope of success that the democrats of weber have lies in their ability to control the liberal party in the future as they have in the past as t I 1 and it seems almost incredible e that any republicans should deliberately walk into the trap so skillfully set for them I 1 that any republican republicans who is such from principle desires the success of the democratic party but republicans can not do that party a greater favor than by standing ia in w with t h the moribund liberal party which since the peoples party Is laid down their arms and disbanded baa his nothing to live for republicans dont you think it looks a little peculiar to gee see the body bod y of the liberal party republican while the head of the organization 0 W powers la is a democrat and what must you thick think it if it be baa a fact as alleged that at a certain meeting me elint at which chairman powers was present and at which it was decided almost unanimously to 0 o organize the democratic party in this territory mr powers power a stated that ht he was heart and squi with iltem them but that hf he could do more grood for the da mccratic parts part 9 af as th party than air of in tn and out democrat f ie is heie here Ln yone soft enough to imagine for a moment that final destination is not the democratic camp and that if he can succeed in holding the liberal republicans aloof from the republican party and sending bis his democratic friends where e the they y belong be he will have accomplished a political scheme worthy the deft band hand of the doughty michigander fellow republicans I 1 honestly ba lieve have that this is the game which the tte democracy are attempting to play upon you and BO so believing I 1 shall vote the straight republican t ticket as it ia Is my solemn duty to do if it all other republicans will do the same the democratic scheme can be most effectually squelched at the election on the third day of august next and another victory recorded for the grand old party yours sincerely E A A 50 republican |