Show THE PARTY OF THE PRESENT troth truth crushed to earth will rise again the eternal years of god are her bat but error wounded writhes in pain and dies amid hor her worshipers the principles of the republican party need no defence but it is desirable that they should be thoroughly disseminated dand and well understood by those who are now entering upon the active duties of life and who will soon be called to the helm to guide the ship of state it can make but little difference to us who are now here cr to those who shall come afterpe alter af terue ue what names the parties of thelast the past were known by yet a knowledge of the history of political parties is essential to an understanding of the political history of the united stales government of cour course so any one who has the time and the inclination cli nation can familiarize himself with this history but it is true that comparatively few citizens study the events of the past for the purpose of being guided in their present or future political action of the schools it Js is true teach the science of civil government to a limited extent but political knowledge is not thereby generally diffused diffuse dand and the principles of existing parties do not in consequence become generally understood there have been a great many parties in existence in this country bince the formation of the government and the adoption of the constitution and they have been known by different names often they disagreed merely oa matters of public policy this was true during the earliest days of the republic when georga george washington the first president was in office it was true also at the time bhea the party of which a correspondent of TUB tim STANDARD makes mention wag was in existence thearin the principles which were then uppermost in the minds of the members members of all parties were those upon which the republic were founded and which found expression in ia the declaration of independence and were guaranteed by the constitution and its amendments the preservation of the union unior t after the adoption of the coustie constitution aaion was uppermost in the minds of all patriots as it was in 1801 when one wing of the democratic party made war upon the government and sought to set up a government found founded ed upon human slavery at the close of the revolutionary war the ruling pirly party was the whig party tories were in a minority the difference between the wales whigs themselves consisted of a belief on the one band that hat t state government should be supreme and that congress the central power should not have authority to coerce a state and keep it in the union when it might desire to withdraw this party or faction action abour as our correspondent saya says wore were called particular ests and that la Is true and it is also true that the democratic party or at least a large proportion of its members have held to that doctrine ever since it was the attempt to put into practical effect that pernicious democratic principle that caused the war of 1861 CZ 65 and it is that same democratic principle that obtains today to day and makes tho the line which divides the republican and democratic parties par lies local government was what tho democrate democrats believed waa was dec necessary essary to secure peace and tranquility qui lity but this idea was by he the the other party known as strong government whose belief was essentially that of the republican party ot of a later period the antl anti isto also believed in a republican form of government but as tersely stated by one political writer with checks upon the impulses or passions of the people liberty sternly regulated by lawand that law strengthened and confirmed by central authority tho the authority of the national government to be final in appeals it will thus be been seen that tho the elates states rights heresy of the afterwards adopted by the democratic party of a later date and ever since held to by that party as one of the cardinal principles stamps the party as being in appos tion to the fundamental principles of ancient and modern republicanism that difference is a radical one and although at the present time it is not put forward prominently by the democratic party it should be understood by the young and rising generation who are asked bocast to cast their pol political ILI lot with ono one or the other of the two great national parties for not the numerous politic al parties which exist today to day in many of the elates states the fact remains that there are but two parties the republican and tho the democratic which are really national in their character we speak of the republican party as the party of the present notwithstanding titan ding the existence of the democratic party because the former is now in control of the government as WT 7 m lo 10 1 it has been since 1801 except fora ford tour four beare or daring during cleveland term of 0 office and even then tho the administration w wai as no not entirely democratic As a mater of 0 tact fact and history a majority of the people of 0 the united states have baen been anti democrats in principle since 1856 1850 when tha the republicans were detected defeated at the polli polls and failed fa ailed to elect fremont their first candidate tor for president tor for although he himself did not receive a majority of the popular vote yet the aggregate vote of the republican whig and american parties was greater by than the democratic vote cast for buchanan who nevertheless secured electoral votes and thereby became president oa oft one of the leading questions of the present time the tho tariff the republican party stands where the old ola whig party its immediate predecessor stood when it was opposed as it now is by the democratic party state sovereign ity ia is not now a question of paramount importance although it should never be lost sight of oe as a fundamental principle of the democratic party bat the tariff question is a live issue between the two parties and their views are as antagonistic on oa that subject as the doctrine of states rights briefly stated the difference farence dif Is this the democratic party is in favor of 0 I 1 a tariff tor for revenue only with to home industries as the incident as was stated in president folks first message to congress in 1845 the republicans believe now as the whigs believed in 1824 and always afterwards until the disbandment of thit that partain part yin a protection industries dus tries and revenue the incident this is the leading issue today to day and will be at the nest next presidential election and to defend the attitude of the republican pub liean party toward this living issue will be the mission of TUB THE STANDARD land and other party organs in utah and out of it CITY utah and butte batte city montana and ogden city utah should form a triple alliance for their mutual pleasure and profit the two first named cities are the richest mining camps in the united states their people generally rally are engaged in unearthing the ho hidden treasures of mother earth neither is a commercial or manufacturing city while ox denis deais den dea is both let lot us as start up the iron works and commence the manufacture of mining machinery park paricity city and butte could easily be brought to become our customers and we could cupply all the demands for mining machinery machiner jr west of the continental divide it will pay hylens people to cultivate close and friendly relations with every other people who are or may be made tributary to her in a commercial or manufacturing sense THE STATE of nevada licenses gambling from which source it derives considerable revenue A proposition is now before L the legislature ot of that state to license bare bars knuckle prize fighting but bat it is opposed by those who favor the deriving of revenue from the gamblers licenia li censa As the carson appeal puts it A liro faro game where a s kindling braca brace bax box is use tsoi I 1 and the miserable cappers get 50 per cent of the stealing lings 5 for roping in poor suskers suckers is considered a sufficiently moral layout lay out oat to derive revenue from in other words the authorities are quite willing to grant a license to rob but they draw the line at fighting an and d lotteries in a moral sense it would 6 be difficult to determine which of the three evils is the worse OUR republican friend col A B ilayev has bag accepted a position on an the editorial staff of the utah state den demo 0 o crat tha the colonel is a ready and vere versatile atile writer but it is doubtful if he can do himself justice as an editorial writer on democratic Damo cratic topics |