Origins Liberal Party (Utah)



the deseret evening news, owned lds church, served de facto people s party organ, , regularly denounced liberal party in pages


the liberal party formed after meeting on february 9, 1870 select independent candidates salt lake city municipal election. organizers billed occasion meeting of people . crowd of latter-day saints, encouraged local bishops , deseret evening news editorial, attended in numbers , hijacked meeting. after lds crowd had selected own slate of candidates, frustrated godbeite eli b. kelsey asked mormons leave, did. remaining non-mormons selected independent municipal ticket, forming liberal party. liberal leaders intended party s name suggest reform , evoke britain s liberal party.


in response, latter-day saints formed people s party, title selected suggest popularity , ironically alluding liberal s disrupted meeting of people . latter-day saints had won virtually elections unchallenged.


early liberal party speakers avoided condemning lds theology or polygamy, because several godbeites practised polygamy. eli b. kelsey , henry w. lawrence, both godbeites, gained election first officers of new party. non-mormons, including r. n. baskin, george r. maxwell, , judge dennis toohy of corinne, played active role in party, stayed in background initially, hoping ex-mormon godbeites prove more effective leaders , candidates.


godbeites believed should reform utah , lds church adopt more politically progressive policies, non-mormon element of party took more adversarial line. non-mormon partisans, miners , railroad workers, increasingly dominate party leadership. through 1870s, liberal party grew less appeasing of godbeites , more openly anti-mormon , anti-polygamy. waning godbeite influence showed 1871 when liberals dennis toohy , george r. maxwell infuriated godbeites @ party meeting calling polygamists dupes , criminals of perverse sensuality.


like many political parties of time, liberal party ran newspaper, although unofficially. godbe s utah magazine became mormon weekly tribune , in 1873 3 anti-mormon newcomers kansas bought , became salt lake tribune. until liberal party disbanded in 1893, tribune operate liberal party s de facto political organ. similarly, deseret evening news, owned lds church, functioned people s party organ.







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