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Show Tiue Tales of Sage Brush Democracy It is t hrillinjr to turn to some of i hp stories of the Sage Brush days of Lctnocracy th clays when m,jn were D'Tiiocrals for principle and not for lucre and ! st for pnwi r. Here is one simple story of those e'ean and unsophisticated daye It was in a a North Sanpete aity where political fever had set in in real earnestness. The old People's Party, which had but a small majority over the Liberal party, had some prominent prom-inent members who believed that the ime had come to disband dis-band aDd join the national parties. The chairman, who was a Democrat and the bishop of the ward, called a meeting j at which it was unanimously I voted to disband. Then the leathering was turned into a Democratic organization meeting meet-ing as nearly all were Democrats. Demo-crats. The chairman then called cal-led for expressions of opinion. As they hesitated he called on a good brother to say what he thought about it. He stood up just like he did in Fast meetings meet-ings and remarked: "Well Bishop, I don't know much about politics but I have a testimony that its right to be a Democrat, and I feel that it is the true work of God." |