Show GONE TO RETURN NO MORE mut have been a grand meeting at the salt ladt theatre monday lat think of it the old warriors who for twenty years had been fighting the mormon church and statehood with all the power and influence heir command to manfully and generously incel say that all they fought for had been won that all the feeling and past was buried forever tills speaks volumes for the mormon people for years tha mormon people leavo been walking the earth with a stigma attached to their names they were accused of being disloyal to the of our country violators of every federal law and where ever americanism was uppermost there mormonism was discredited discarded the fight has been long bitter and alvere the mormon people exhausted every known test in law to prove that their cherished principles were permissible in practice as well ns in belief but on every point defeat was certain until the last great test came before the supreme court of the united states this was the last straw that held polygamy in practice grand was the fight alie ablest lawyers of our country battled for both sides there suit was that the mormon people were defeated at every point humbly yet we believe loyally they bowed to the laws of our country the manifesto was issued and so honestly honorably and fairly have abo people of utah conducted themselves that the enemy lias repented and come over in a body this itself is not very but ho fact of the way the liberal party disbands is the proudest monument it has built both for mormon im and Liber alimi combined who would have predicted five years ago that tondi goodwin and john henry smith would lie down together tho lion and the lamb who would have predicted two years ago eliat judge powers and moses thai cher would nt this time occupy the same bed that the liberal conversion is complete is assumed torn the words af judge goodwin when in his speech he said dont n disbanding hold a dab over anybody to judge goodwill who has been the brightest light in the liberal party lias been awarded the honor of being made alie historian of liberalism and that he is eminently preeminently pre fitted to write a history of past must be conceded by all and specially so when wo consider that he leaves the liberal party with that spirit of beace will to men the liberal party has fought openly and abare board it fought for a principle which they believed davne it fought hardit won but in winning old liberals must not forget that the mormon people also won both now stand on the same platform to the past we bid a long farewell Th eLiberal parly as gone it la dead let us hope for ever it is now buried peace be with its ashes victory now perches upon the banner of every loyal son of utah how bright and glorious will be the future |