The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-10-06
A REPUBLICAN PROPOSITION.
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 4, 80.

Ii is not often that ask for space
in your columns to give vent to my
notiona on politics. or any other
theme, but just now feel an inclina'
lion 10 say few words upon a sub
ject at present agitating the political
world in the United States.
The democratic platform, pro-
mulgated by the convention at Gin.
cinnati, simultaneously with the
nomination of the statesman-soldier,
Hancock, 1.-THE next President) ia q
very plain declaration of principles
of the party and upon which the
administration OF governmental
affairs will be conducted. The
language of this platform is simple
and go easily understood, that he
who RUS may read without danger
Of being misled by it.
Not SO, however, with the platitudes
contained in the confession of faith
issued by the republicans at Chicago
Whatever may be contained in the
latter document, it is clear that one
cannot ascertain from its perusal the
intentions of the republican party in
case of its continuation in power.
These can best be learned from the
utterances of republican leaders on
the stump and through the press.
Honest men OF all parties desire to
see sectional lines obliteratsd, and, as
the war is over and has been for the
last fifteen years, they think it high
time that peace should be restored,
but not 30 with the sectional republic
can party.
Roscoe Conkiing, though perhaps
Justly afraid of tbs shot gun, still
waves the bloody shirt and doss all
that he can to keep up sectional strife.
This man lately made an elaborate
speech. characterized by his friends as
the ablest Effort OF his life. which
was OF go violent q character
as to call forth a severe criticism from
the New York EUening Post, q strong
Garfield paper, but whose editor l
should infer, has not parted with the
last particle of patriotism as has
Conkling.
The Post denounces the speech
"As the effort of q politician, not a
ststesman-sps rtizan, not a patriot. "
It further asserts hat the only OBJ
ject of the speech Twas 10 revive
and reinforce that narrow, odious and
malignant sectionaiism against which
all the better members OF the party
have been struggling for the last ten
years." The Post goes further and
says: THAT the issue OF the present
campaign is sectional and only Sec
tional."
There is a paper published in San
Francisco, also republican in politics,
but edited and published, l should
Judge, by persons who do not echo
the sentiments Of honest republicans.
This paper said in a late issue :
There is no proposition before the
country but this: The south, defeated
in war, and casting 1873 electoral
votes, wants to rule the north, which
has 23l electoral votes. This can
only be done by inducing forty-seven
Northern votes to betray their own
section"
The Bulletin 1.-THE paper to which
reference is here made) has been,
believe, a stsunch supporter of all, or
nearly all, the acts of vigilance COM
mittees since California became
state. 1t has been, and still is, an
advocate Of that kind of rebellion
against the laws OF Congress, which
consists in a refusal to recognize
greenbacks as legal tender. 1t has
been, and still is, a supple tool of the
rich as against the poor in its own
state, and last. though not least of its
sins, it is found to be in open Rdvo-
eaoy of the most pernicious policy of
the party whose moutnpiece on the
Pacific it is, that policy which is de-
nounced by its republican co-workers
in New York as 'partizan, not pa
triotic."
The democrats Of the whole United
States want to wipe out forever all
sectional lines, and to restore the
to the high standard &C.
oupied by 1t during all the yesrs in
which the democratic party admin
istered the affairs.
The democracy does not recognise
The sectional issue as the only propo-
sition before the country, but it seems
the Bulletin does. Are the repub-
licsns willing to 60 before the people
On that proposition alone? II so, let
the fight 60 on. In that event the
patriots of both parties, north, south,
EAST and west, will sit down upon the
sectional issue in November in en-
ohstic terms. b. D. j.