The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-04-06
DARK LANTERNS And THINGS .

ealleQ upon 10 COuuOle hAtn JIM
republicans, from ex-governors and
ex .suryeyors-genersls down to yip-
ysps, PiGk-Handle Dicks and narrow
Raage roughs. They have been
badly left-thst is to say, euchred;
and what makes the matter too con-
foundedly interesting for them is the
fact thatthey are without an organ"
having no party newspaper with
which to lash anybody, to protest
against wrong-doing, or put things in
the way Of Fighting Themselves. Ths
situation is deplorable to say the least.
Last Saturday afternoon nine
gentlemen representing the "Repub-
lican territorial central committee, "
got themselves together, as the re-
ceiver OF the United States land-ofice
would ssy, in a lawyers Office, and at
once proceeded to act for the repub'
lican party Of Utah in the matter OF
selecting delegates 10 the Chicago
convention, expressing the preference
Of the party for presidential candi-
date, electing a territorial committee.
snd the transaction Of sucn other
business as is usually done in delegate
or mass conventions. Briefly, the
above is why the republicans are
mad, disconsolAte and hence proper
objects of popular coincidence.
II is little thing over which to get
Filed, and yet it has actually made
men mad, and mouthings and threat
enings are heard on every corner.
What the result will be cannot be
ioretoId.
As the HERALD is accused of driving
these doughty committeeman into the
dark corner, We will state some of the
causes that have led up to Saturdays
event. Four years sgo a regularly
called republican convention was
held in this city, and noisier, more
disgEaeeful affair in the way of politi
Gal gathering has never bsen known
here. The party was divided, one
faction being guided and controlled
by the federal officials, and the other
by our esteemed morning oontem-
perary. Nominally it was q fight as
to whether Grant or Rnti.Grant dele
gates should be sent to the Cincinnati |
convention; in point of fact it was a
struggle for dictatorisl supremacy
between the T. o. HIS. who desired |
TO be conservative and decent, and |
our red-hes1ed newspaper friend,
who. by nature, was required to be
exactly the opposite. The anti
Grants and the organ were VIC
torious, and the officials went
to the wall, taking with them,
however, 9 considerable following.
Two ex-offcials who had been turned
put Of Office by Grant went to Chi
cago, and an anti.Grant central COM
mittee was chosen, but there was an
irreparable breach made in the party,
and that breach has been growing
wider ever since, Notwithstanding the
Efforts to close it. One faction is op-
poted ID Tribune dictation, and the
other is not, but rather likes it. The
latter seems ID have control of the
situation, having a chairman and
majority Of the committee. and a
newspaper behind it, while the
former has only the decent conser,
vatism and responsibility of its MEM
bers-things that count for little
among republicans.
IL the expectation that the central
committee would call a convention
for choosing delegates 10 the national
convention, the election of q new
committee, ETC., the "ouL" branch of
the party had been preparing to get
foothold in the organization. The
committee evidently feared an over
throw, otherwise the members would
not have hid themselves in a
dark corner and acted as
II they were the republican
party of Utah. They excuse their
dark-lsnIern proceeding on various
grounds, chief OF which is q horror of
such "disgrsceful and scandslous
scenes" as those enacted in the last
convention. They profess fear Of
another riotous meeting, and do not
like the thought Of "a hoOdlnm
crowd" (Bsn. Morgan, Nathan Kim.
bali, ct al. being turned loose upon
hem. These are well-Iimed fears,
md wise precautions, for it is a pretty
veil understood fat that the F. 0. 81. !
action was in a fair way to capture {
The organization. t
The HERALD is not particularly ia
ieEested in the chickering's and quar-
'els of the republicans, though like I
HI good and piouI people, We prefer b
hat brethren should live together in il
peace. The committeeman, in their &
lark lantern proceedings Of Saturday,
lsaumed to intimate that this journal f
would be pleased to see continuance s
u the disgraceful squabble that has \
the party's doings here; y
the truth is, as the records r,
lilI chow, the HERALD has never adj Il
ised anything but peace, and its Z
onstant Adnonition has been to heal 3 3
Id sores, shake hands and be friends. %
Ve do not now propose 10 interfere, n
ut We would AJAX Independent repub- q
cans, if there be any, whether they ~
itend to submit TO the sort OF dicta-
on that has been attempted? II go,
hat will be the use of clsiming q r
,publican party organization in ar
tah? The chairman of the COM ia
ittse can do the thinking and acting Fl
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