Show THE BUNCO the Tascar oara conference confer enca ia is now a a thing of the past the grand sachem and the lesser chiefs of the triba have retired to their wigwams to nurse their wrath and smoke the pipe of disappointment while ruminating over the miscarriage of their well planned bunca gime to draw republicans into the tuscarora n net at we confess that we are not entirely pleased with the outcome of this mn mash h vaunted conference of BOM powers because it is true that a few republicans took the bait thrown out to them and swallowed ced od it to gether with the barbed hook which it it concealed we would have been better pleased if every republican had been as wary and as careful as those who having early dropped onto tha the little game either withdrew from the conference or refused to attend it but let that pass for the present now what has bean demonstrated by this m meeting eating of members of the liberal party lat us see first great preparations bad had been made for a larga attendance ot of liberals and nono none were to be admitted with nt tickets A ticket in the bands hands of an applicant for admission was prima facie evidence of his ism the hall bad had absen prepare to accommodate but bat at no session of the convention were there present more than people of both sexes of whom not to exceed 1003 were liberal voters the largest number of liberals present at any single session was on the evening of the first day when the con conference farence reluctantly luct antly ly passed a resolution declaring that whatever the deci decision aloa of the conference might ba be it should not bo be considered binding upon liberals the further farther proceedings became devoid of interest for all except the prime leaders in the movement to steer suckers stickers up against the rama game and thereafter they absente themselves from the conference hall secondly not moro more than half a bozan republicans of any prominence and nearly all of them of silt like city waie ware present in the conference and took part in the proceedings they bad had their say and withdrew than then tho the grand sachem and bis his trusty band bad had everything their own way all was plain sailing and the gramme pro as originally laid down by powers wag was carried oat out every vote cast durin during the last hour of the convention was cast jast just as the boss boas intended that it should ba be cast and nearly voters placed themselves on record as being in favor of continuing the liberal party part y and of putting up a candidate for delegate to it was a powers victory and a liberal defeat because no liberal is bo in ml I 1 b by the decision of the 50 tag caloras who voted thirdly the conference made perfectly plain the fact that a vast majority of the members of tho the liberal party were no longer in sympathy with it but had made op up their minds to vote independently hereafter at least for Da delegate legate to congress ane few republicans who were present with here and there an exception had determined before they withdraw draw from the confere conference ace to vote their party ticket and most of them will probably do BO solf it the put UD up a good man for delegate which they will unquestionably do fourthly the conference demonstrated to the satisfaction of the truest friends of utah that the liberal party will no longer bo be an important factor in the politics polities and business of this territory that the liberal party can hereafter have no influence with members of either party in congress that the liberal party cannot delay statehood which will come within a reasonable time whether the next president of the united Stat states esbe ba harrison or cleveland powers and the tribune are entitled to thanks for exposing the weak weakness of the liberal party and demonstrating the futility of continuing a losing fight along the old lines although they did so 89 unintentionally |