The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-09-22

was cuIlr0ly uQr0pr0S6nI0Q IN Cl0
convention until all its business
had been transacted and it was on
the point of adjourning. Conse-
quently Rich county's claims to a
member of the legislative delega-
ton had no advocate in the conven-
ton" This would seem to be in
tended as an apology for sundry
members of said convention not be-
ing aware of the existence o. Rich
county, but surely the editor of the
Journal can hardly claim to have
been thus ignorant, as possibly his
paper has a few subscribers in this
region, "Rancher's" article to THE
HERALD states the reasons reported
by the Professor for his not meeting
with the Logan convention, which
your correspondent deemed sound,
but others think that notWithstand.
ing the gloomy outlook, he ought,
nevertheless, to have gone into said
convention and made as stiff fight
as he could under the circumstances.
1t must be remembered, however,
that just having been married and
therefore surrounded by gentle in
fuences Of a peaceful nature, he
was, in measure, unnerved and
unstrung for gross contention OF
any kind whatever. 1t would be a
joke after all on this county should
facts prove that the Journal editor
"got away" with the Professor on
the occasion in question. In the
language of said editor, sit is under
stOOd" that they had some sort of
deal, which may have had a Devil
derlng effect on the Professors
mind and eXerted a tendency to di~
vert him from the rugged path of
duty. Said editor further says
Fifth, as Rich county had already
been favored good deal more than
she had right to expect, and as it
was understood in Logan that a
clique, not truly representative Of
the Peoples Party of Rich county,
had nominated their man for the
Legislature, the convention in Lo-
gan felt that no injustice would
be done toany one if all three MEM
bers of the legislative delegation
were chOsen from Cache county. !"
That paragraph has so much of the
true Liberal ring, your correspond
ent thinks it just that the editor of
the Journal culled it from some of
their publications and reVamped it
to suit his purpose. Why, Messrs.
Editors, the whole idea of govern
ing Utah by legislative commits
sion, created by our national
government, can be sustained by
such theory as is enunciated in
said paragraph. Shame on any man
pretending to edit an organ Of the
Peoples party, to put forth such
doctrine. Doesn't the editor of the
Journal know that the main reason
assigned by the advocates OF abOl-
ishing our Territorial Legislature
and governing our Territory by an
| appointed commission, ETC., is based
on the idea that the majority of the
people of Utah are not truly repre-
sentative Americans, and that they
are a grand clique, or a combination
of cliques, that are continually put
ting into Office men not truly repre-
sentative of the Americans in sale
Territory? He must have fell
himself hard pressed, to resort tc
such a defense of the action Of the
Logan convention. The remainder
of his article breathes much the same
spirit as the last paragraph quoted
stating to the effect that said con-
vention was abundantly justified in
the course it pursued, that it had
no desire to do any injustice OF
show any discourtesy towards Rich
county, etc., etc.-liberalisms that
would seem to entitle him to front
rank in that party, if manfuIly put
forth from their camp, instead Of
issuing from the grass within the
sacred precincts of the Peoples
party. He assures US in saiC
article, that "the voters of Cache
would willingly sustain a man
flom Rich for the Legislature were
he known to them as a staunch and
thorough supporter and represe nta.
tive OF the principles and voters Of
the Peoples party In his OWL
county," which no one acquainted
with the people of Cache will dis
pute, but possibly the editor Of the
Journal is not fully authorized tC
speak for all Of them, though hi
language would seem to imply that
he thought he was thus authorized
If any slanderous reports were cir
culated in Logan against the Rich
county nominee during the session
Of the convention in question, it was
perhaps God send to all aspirants
Of the Journal editors ilk. In the
first place, he defends the action OF
said convention on the grounds of
Rich having been so highly favored
ETC., and then switches off to make
a personal attack on the Rich county
nominee, calculated, if believed, to
seriously reflect upon the integrity
of the latter. If he has any valid
reasons for thus publishing man
to the world, lie certainly ought to
give them. As a matter of fact, the
Rich County convention was COM
posed of Twelve delegates, chosen at
the previously announced primaries
of the Peoples party in the several
precincts of this county. The first
vote in the convention stood six to
four, a candidate not voting on one
side, and the chairman, who would
| have voted with tho MINORITY, not