| Show I THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY It has been customary for the people of Utah to term themselves Democrats and last fall when President Cleveland and VicePresident Hcndricks were elected the people of this city held a grand jollification jolli-fication meeting and were far more loud Din D-in their praise of the Democratic party than in their condemnation of the Republican Re-publican party Of the sincerity of their sentiments they are the best judges but the people of this county and the Council Coun-cil and Representative district to which this county is joined have an opportunity the first opportunity I to vote a straight Democratic ticket To a calm and thoughtful consideration of that ticket we invite them It is generally conceded by all that the Democratic ticket is a stronger and abler ticket than the ticket nominated by the Peoples party If such is the case and the people of the district are Democrats why should not that ticket meet with success It is impossible for the people of Utah to be Democrats when away from Utah and be something else when in Utah A true Democrat is always a Democrat and he finds no need to be a Democrat at times and something different at other times The members of the Peoples party as a rule claim to be Democrat but they are such Democrats as are fo nul nowhere else but in that pad The people or demos are the source from whence all power comes and the Peoples Peo-ples party confound the name with the reality In true Democracy the power of the government is derived from the people to be used for the furtherance fur-therance of the Peoples interest the interest of the people as citizens without regard to the religious or political faith of the citizen The Peoples party has no care or solicitude for any pave its i own members whose standing in that parly is determined on other grounds than those of citizenship and individual excellence excel-lence and worth of chaaacter Whatever benefits and protection it may confer upon those who do not belong to it are only incidental It has for its main object ob-ject the welfare of its members as members mem-bers of an ecclesiastical organisation and not as citizens of the commonwealth So soon as a man severs his connection with that ecclesiastical organization he is an outcast from the Peoples party and in him as a citizen they have no interest from that moment they look upon him as their ecclesiastical and political enemy It is a significant fact that the Peoples party includes none who are not members of itschureh organization and the party has no adherents who are not members of its church People may interpret in-terpret this fact as they choose but it will still remain significant Another significant signifi-cant fact is that a person does not cease to belong to one without ceasing to belong be-long to the other Arc not these facts inexplicable save upon the basis that the Peoples party is a union of Church j and State SuchtUnions have ever been detrimental to the Slate as a political organization or-ganization and those citizens who have I not been of the prescribed faith have been outcasts socially and oliticully i They have ever felt that they were aliens and without rights in their native land Suchis the case in Utah today In other States and Territories a man does not find it necessary to change his religion when he changes his politics but such is the case with the Peoples party The Democratic party takes no heed of u mans religion or want of religion bi cause unpolitical affairs it does not recognize recog-nize religion To it belong meat of all religious persuasions and no religious Iem suasion That party believer its principles princi-ples the hest suited for a free govorn mcnt but it does not claim them to be infallible for they t rest upon reason and i not upon revelation In it is i found no i test wo caste Canthe same be said j of the Peoples party There will result i i one good from the present campaign and I j that i itTto i show who are Democrats and I who are not The Democratic party and i the Peoples party aro totally unlike po j litically and some who have been loudly j claiming to be Democrats are already i talking in favor of the Peoples ticket I Papers that painted the town red last y I 1 c November are supporting the Peoples ticket which is a strange thing when a straight Democratic ticket is placed in the field and no single objection is made to any one of the candidates It is impossible for such papers to find refuge in the old excuse that it i is not a Democratic ticket We suggest to such papers to either hoist the Democratic ticket to the head of their columns and advocate its election or else horibstly admit that their Democracy was bogus and that they called themselves them-selves Democrats because of policy and not from principle and if such papers have any principles let them declare what they are There is no time like election time to show what a mans politics poli-tics are |
