Show renewing the tribune EDITOR THE tim STANDARD I 1 observe but not with surprise that the salt lake tribune true tits t x its non eive sive instincts instinct L 0 opposes thi tilt dial disintegration i n te of the tile old local political parties and the division of the people on national party lines this should not be cause for regret among those who are familiar with the history of that paper and therefore understand that ita its iou now as it haa has ever been is purely of a mercenary character and totally unprincipled the tribunes insulting charge that the thousands thousand of loyal citizens c who hava dropped dropp edthe the liberal party and joined either of the national parties are actuated by a hope that the movement will bring a reward in some petty offices dont count it haa has always been the practice of that vicious and an wass unscrupulous sheet to insult every man v ha would not shape his political 1 at ical conduct to accord with tha the pol I 1 rule or ruin policy of its managers the tribune is in a deep rut and lacking the inclination finds great difficulty in extricating itself but the chargo of inconsistency cannot be made to lie against it for it is dimply following out the tile course of obstruction st which it has pursued ever since it was founded it cannot see se e that utah has progressed in the last ty twenty enty years and so it co continues to draw the same dismal pen pictures as of old and send s ad them out to tho the world as a warning to intending immigrants and capitalists to give this territory a wide berth what does the mendacious obstructionist mean by its allusion to the good and true liberals who realize that the men who founded utah most of whom by the th ie way are in their graves have never made ma wal e one concession and a ad that they the aforesaid liberals will by and by compel the mormon power to americanize itself ill tell you what it dreans that it considers itself wiser arl and d more enlightened than the thousands of old time good and true liberals who have stood by it through the yeara but who now see things in a different light and have made up their minds to pursue a better plan than the one which the tribune declares has not been fruitful of good results the tribune sees nothing in the recent political movement to despair about and professes prote gees sees to believe that those who have never been seen nor ever eyer will mormonism nisin rampant keedan need an object lesson to open their ey eyes eo well are they not having such a lesson dont they eee no peace and tranquility and harmony pervading the entire community ill all clarica at work to enhance theral the general prosperity and the tribune itself de delving frosier ving in tho buried and forgotten pait pa 4 instead of entering into the spirit 4 of tile the present such an object lesson is not calculated to inspire confidence in the tribune as a teacher and sate safe guide its oracular statement that great results as a rule are ate a good long time ime t in a culminating is a moat most convincing cont coat argument in favor of the political change that ia is rapidly taking place in utah it Is an acknowledge led ment unintentional however ee that the Tribu tribunes Mf plan ian of campaign has been a total failure fai pre and that the fight on that line ought to be abandoned and another one given a fair trial if after a two years year trial of the new plan belter better results shall not follow than have attended the tribunes tribune Is persistent labor on one line for more than a score of years the old good and true liberals liber alts will wa it be ready to confess that they erred in judgment and intelligence telli gence OLD TIME LIBERAL I 1 ii T t i 3 |