The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-01-18

SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. II, 1880.
To His EEceUency r. B. Hayes, Pres
dent Of the United States.
What doctrine new snd strange
8 this we hear2
= What policy incomprehensible?
1t is reported, sir. from Washington,
{ That he who would become q candidate
s And hope to be appointed Governor
| Of this our territory must declare
That he INDUCES in no sympathy
Nor favor towards the people living here
But is their enemy, and he must give
a pledge of bitterness and enmlty
Toward them and their domestic policy
And mu his tho ough readiness declar
To act against them with vigorous arm
In any possible emergency;
Not in natural emergency,
Nor purely accidental, but in one
Premeditated long and carefully,
And with deliberate purpose brought
about
To crash and to exterminate all those
Who hold the Mormon doctrine to be
true,
And hold it thus so conscieDtiously
AS 10 give tone and color to their lives.
This is an extraordinary thing,
a qualification remarkable
For federal office, sir, Of any kind.
Where did you learn such wondrous
policy?
Where did you learn such wondTous
craftsmanship
By what mysterious power were you in
spired
Such tests to think of and to institute,
And to impose upon the candidates
For ruling offices of any grade?
Will two thousand six hundred dollars
pay
A man 10 be an open enemy,
An enemy declared and undisguiGed,
Of three times fifty thousand people who
have never done him any injury,
Nor thought to injure him or sught Of his?
Will that sum, as an annual salary
For four short years, induce decent
man,
A man Of honor and a gentleman,
To sell his soul unto the devil so,
With you the tempter to the evil work |
Why was it that our honored Governor |
Must fly to Washington in hot post haste, |
To reassure your excellency's self
That he was sound in this particular
And to the people was inimical;
The people over whom, as governor,
By Grants appointment he had ruled four
years:
And thus by personal appeal to you
Make null and void the work of rabid
tongues
And from decGpitstiol save his head,
lis head Official, one more four year
term
Why should he leave his pressing duties
here
o go to Washington in such case,
case as needless as case could be
% you consider it good policy
hat officers should be inimical,
Antagonistic, hostile, and wsrlike
into The people over whom they rule,
them with animosity,
animosity?
thing it is a foolish policy,
| policy designed to stir up strife
md to prevent public prosperity.
he gospel, sir, of hate is not the thing: {
o, not the thing by any means for you,
he President Of the United States,
o preach abroad throughout the Union
md base appointive policy upon.
| policy like this will never win
he favor and respect of honest men;
md if you do not put it far away
rom you, you'll hear some sharp and
cutting things
from those you have upon your list of |
friends,
Is well as from your party's enemies.
here's Wendell Phillips, in his scOlding
way,
avs you equivocate and falsify; II
'enounces you not only as fraud, [
tut says, and says incisively, you are
)evoid of honor and Of principle. :
ct, he is a republican, like you; !
.epublican, though slightly radical.
you persist in such a policy, S
he policy of enmity and hate, a
GU must expect 10 reap that which you T
SOW.
hen whereunto think you this thing will
groW2
eyond your wishes and beyond your |
power,
nd then, sir, you will curse the evil I
hour Z
When you forsook peace in your policy, Z
exchanging it for develiSh enmlty,
rom territory into states twill go,
I'd you, sir, though the President, will
know
on cannot play with fire without being s
burnt =
you sow seed of luminosity,
hUugh In region far off and remote, e
he harvest will come home to you too p
sooD, II
The seed will volunteer
To come up year by year;
Come here, come there,
Come everywhere,
i'll, to your sorrow, you will surely find
hat many a sovereign state is eight to T
mined,
nd many a sovereign state is Garee-
loned,
nd msny state hiss double govern
ment,
nd hydra-headed anarchy prevails. o
SALT LAKER. {,