Show Political Conflict EDITOR DEMOCRAT The preliminary effort manifested throughout the Democratic Demo-cratic Club to effect an organization of Democrats upon a platform composed of fundamental Democratic principles and at the same time embracing every element ele-ment essential to good and loyal citizenship citizen-ship have been followed by some peculiar pecu-liar and unexpected developments I is lifting the masks in which certain people have been masquerading No one has yet been found possessed of the effrontry and hardihood or so degenerate as to question the soundness of a single principle embraced in the platform upon which the new effort is founded That every citizen should exercise ex-ercise a free and untrammelled judgment in politics that there should be mutual noninterference between Church and State that every person should yield obedience to law involving of course yeld discontinuance of polygamy coupled with the other and essential principles of free government are political doctrines which any lover of freedom would at once regard as unassailable In connection with these doctnnes it is affirmed that whenever the sentiment among the people of Utah becomes pre dominent in their favor that this would be a sufficient guaranty of republican goverment and Utah should be admitted ad-mitted as a State The end sought is free local self government This in brief is the proposition of the Democratic Club and its adherents I is believed that the promoters of this new and rational policy are possessed of sufficient intelligence not to commit the gross absurdity of putting a candidate into the field with a promise to the people peo-ple that i he is elected by their suffrages suff-rages his efforts will be engaged in procuring pro-curing their future disfranchisement and subjugation to the despotic sway of a commission of foreign appointment The principles have scarcely been questioned but the promoters have been assailed on account of the principles I Who are the assailants Among the first to appear were the tools and agents i of that political hierarchy misnamed the I Peoples Party The pretended love of Democracy which many of the adherents of the party so much delighted t affect at once vanished upon the first honest and clear enunciation of Democratic principles The rage of the sycophants of dominant priestcraft has found vent as was to be anticipated But these are not I the only ones who have been unable to stand Wthe light of political truth Like the bleareyed owl blinking in the light of day at the mouth of some stolen burrow they are be gining in the form of anonymous communications com-munications to utter their screach of dismay dis-may The latter is no doubt a heterogeneous I hetero-geneous group It may embrace some who through desperate infatuation still linger for food near the decaying and I malodorous corpse J of the Republican party It may include some socalled Democrats Dem-ocrats of splenetic souls and simple minds who have been unable to see the Republi I lican under the guise of the Liberal party and are unwilling tobe docked fromthetail of that diminutive organism It does include in-clude all that class who accumulate vulgar vul-gar and senseless tirades as merchandise to whom regeneration means plunder who correctly estimate that a Legislative Commission is but a case well stocked with skeleton keys and burglars instruments ments of which they hope to be the chief j beneficiaries All the maligners of young Democracy together indeed make a combination of the most sordid kind These several component elements each without principles without morality without reason abandoned to hope are about ready to strike hands and make common cause against that political decency which is their antipodes This is a it should be They are naturally and hopelessly members of the same political household GERBER SALT LAKE CITY March Ii 1884 |