The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-06-10
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1t to explain that the election count
j. which made Hayes the de fact
j. President of the Omitted States wa
: the work of patriots, saints ant
. martyrs. Even if the editor be al
9 inn ported one and his characteristic
the mort savagely stalwart, all tht
3 bitterness of soul impaired by defea'
and disappointment in the ranks o.
his nominal friends is overlooked
| in his eageFness to bolster up the
dirty work accomplished by both
wings Of his party to put a half
breed of the most tenuous substance
, lin the place to which a man had
been elected. The hireling stalwart
leditor sometimes goes so far as to
cite the fact that Tilden's last hope
was destroyed with the election of
| David Davis TO the United States
Senate-epparenGly overlooking the
fact that this was a trick which
only political mob whose legal de
feat gave great promise Of being
supplemented by another defeat in
the shuttle of the cards, would
have thought of or attempted to
carry out. Davis was weak
minded enough to permit him
self to descend from an honora-
BILE position on the supreme bench
to wallOw i'll the mire of politics at
the behest of u party who could use
his absence III the former position
and his presence in the latter to
their advantage. The fact that
Tilden was not Ienominated four
years later is also brought up; this
fact, we are compelled to admit, was
a great blunder in his party, but it
was not the blunder of the man him
self, nor did it palliate the crime
which the democratic party per-
mitted the republican party to con
.summate in 1877. Both parties are
subject to indictment-one for com.
hitting, the other for not prevent.
ing it; but in the # common
sense and common law, which is
the greater offense and which
should first be arraigued and pun
ished?
1t will scarcely be contended or
even asserted by the average" demo-
cratic editor that his party is a con-
gregatiOn of angels; absolute purity |
can hardly be looked for inside the
lines of political organizations; but |
he can compare his friends and
his enemies greatly to the
formers advantage. He can see
where his associates have made
great mistakes and neglected grand !
where they have
done the things they ought not to
have done and left undone the
things they ought to have done.
But he does not find among them in
5he earlier history of the country
such names as Aaron Burr, the
traitor, debaucher and
nor in its later periods
men who tacitly Sympathize with
5he murderer Of a chief magistrate,
even il the latter be political
enemy, He can look at the picture
If corruptionists in high places,
guilty of selling the patronage
placed in their hands, selling posi- {
ions of profit and, exposed by a s
lemocratic Congress-, escaping with ,
title more than censure; he can see t
be man who was defrauded out of
he presidency foremost in break t
ng up rings and furnishing ring t
hieves in his own party; he can see
nc 4oTemOSG lawyer OF the United
'tates-a staunch democrat-prose,
uting with all the vigor of
is grand ability a lot
f star route thieves every {
ne Of whom is a good loyal repub-
can; he can see enough to satisfy :
I'M that, Notwithstanding the er-
Ors Of commission and omission on
he part Of his friends, they are EN-.
lently the best company he can
ct into and have anything at all to
0 with politics.
We think the average" subsidized
iitor would do well to let his ia
orite party slide into the obsaurity
hitch so certainly awaits it, with
ut giving it any more prominence
nan its innate offensiveness creates