The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-11-07
AN ISSUE WANTED.
SALT LAKE orrY, Nov. 6. 1880.

SALT LAKE CRY. Nov. 6. 1880.
Editors Herald:
Well, the election agony is abou
over. For, although the actual elec
ton Of the next President does nc
come of till next month, and the of
cial announcement of the same is no
made till February, yet, as the stat
Legislatures 90, SO goes the presi
Dental election, and, as the stat,
legislatures have gone republican, j
naturally follows that the presidential
election will have the same com
ple1lon. The democratic party,
therefore, ~ constructed for this
struggle. Is goDs-goDe in. gone up,
gone down, gone under, gone to fin
ders. Its occupation is guns, except
ing the ungrscious duty of saying.
ITS all your fault"
The democrats didn't have much
to help them in this cAmpaign-no
foreign war, no intestine broil, No
financial crisis, not even q bad bar
vest. The country had touched the
gravel Of hard iimes q while before,
and bad begun to float freely on the
rising tide of renewed prosperity. 1t
lie not an easy thing to push one
party out and another 10 while the
country has plenty to eat, drink, AID
spend. Something palpAbls to growl
over Was what was wanted. II some
grand calamity. some nationsl and
dreadful visitation Of Providence had
happened along, to be blamed upon
the republicans, it would have been
the making of the democrats. But
no such iortuitous circumstance ap-
peared. The failure to nominate
Grant, even sftsr his preliminary tour
round the world, hardly raised an
sfectuHl ripple. TAlmage did indeed
suggest the determination OF the
Mormons 80 q sufficient platform in
Ind OF itself. But Talmage is
miserable mountebaBk, who gets his
wing by saying and doing outlandish
hlngs In a pious sort of q way In pull
'It and on platform, and be 10 evi.
emily bit OF sanguinsry coward
'eeldes. Talmage makes bombshells
nd goes into q big illustration over
hem, but he wants somebody else to
ire them of. The preludlng Joe
'Ook, in his uncouth way, said some
ough things Of the Mormons while
% was here among them. But the
2ore crafty Talmsge waited till he
ad got q Iafe distance away, and
hen he set to work to backblte them
Wfully, worse than q bucketful of
cas-.
Now this Mormon determination
ling is already one of the planks in
le republican platform, and has
cen these twenty years. Moreover,
has proved to be the thinnest plank 4
the whole platform. Why Tai
age thinks there is sufficient tim Der {
that plank to make whole plat e
rm OF is not for me to say. The re /
lblican party dare not venture to
and upon that plank alene, and it
not democratic plank, it is not
DnsonAnt with democratic principles. :
= the by, Talmsge said he would )
ther be buried in China than at
Ut Lake. Well. nobody wants his
rcase brought here to rot. China
abundantly welcome to it, with all
fragrant feculence, festerment,
I'd fetIdness.
But about this needed new issue for :,
e democrats. The indications are u
It very distinct at present. But we Il
ed not be in O hurry. 1t is not G.
InIed Immediately. We can wait a
'hile. Something promising may "
RI up within the next four years.
not, then efectuAl reconstruction c.
the party may be considered i'm O.
sable. E. Il