The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-08-15
r PUBLICAN FAILURE.

in lis anxiety TO find something
more to charge against the Tepub-
I;an party, reclte5 the several de
claratiOns by that party since 1856
concerning the prohibition" and
sextirpation" of one Of the twin
relics of barbarian In the terrific
ries and points to the fact that The
''Felic" still exists, The republicans
gained control of the government i'll
1860, and with the exception of a
brief interval, have had The legis-
lative. judicial and executive de-
partments of the nation in their
own hands. Several enactments in
bmm0ny with the party convention
declarations have been put in the
books, but the World says there has
never been an intention to enforce
them. The late election in this
Territory is referred to as evidence
shat polygamy has not only not been
''extirpatei," but is .all-controning
in the political affairs of Utah, the
World Temarking: "After nearly
quarter Of century of republican
government an election is held in
Utah and the poIygamists carrg
everything before them" Our es-
teemed contemporary, for the sake
Of making its point against the
enemy, carries It's argument SO far
that its assertions go beyond the
truth. The pOlygamists carried
nothing at the late election, either
as candidates for office oras electors.
They neither voted nor were voted
for. Even the most pronounced
anti-Mo;mons do not claim that the
provisions of the Edmunds law in
regard to elections has been violated
in bahalf Of polygamists. Indeed,
She strsining Of that statute has all
been in an opposite direction, many
whose right to the franchise was
undOubted by law or fair-minded
men being arbitrarily denied the
privilege Of exercising 1t. Polyga-
nists may have exercised an
influence in the nominating
conventions and upon the minds
of the voters. It is not |
denied that they did exercise such
influence. win the World say that |
it Is unlawful for them to 90 SO? |
And, if unlawful, tell how it can |
be prevented by legislation? If it is
unlawful for Henry Ward Beecher
to throw the weight OF his influence |
In favor Of one candidate or party |
and against another. then it might |
be unlawful for the Mormon elder |
TO do the same thing. The matter
Of wives has nothing TO do with the
question, which is purely one of
political pgopriety.
The republican party has much to /
answer for; that is, if political or.
CARNATIONS are held responsible Tor
their misd8eds and crimes, but fail
ure to work for the extirpation of
pOlygamy cannot be laid at It's door. |
THE PRINTERS strike at the offices
Of the San Francisco CAL and Bug-
Eetjgs continues, the man holding out
and the newspapers making their
appearance as usual. 1t is somewhat
discreditable to the other San Fran
cisco journals that they have taken
sides with the men in boycott
ting movement that is being inaugu-
rsted against the Call and Bulletin.
( r2riOus trade unions and labor
gar itions are holding mestinrsl
and pledging themselves to with
draw their patronage from mercsn-
tile houses that advertise in the
papers mentioned, and resolving to
injure those journals in every way
possible. II the facts of the strike
are as represented in the Call the
newspapers that are allowing their
political prejudice or their envy |
80 warp their judgment,
and cause them to condemn the
Call and Bulletin prOprietors and
encourage the strikers, are liable to |
6nd themselves at any time in the
unhappy pFedicament Of having to
eat their own words, for they. Ger
tainIy would, under similar eircum-
stances, do precisely as the Cc1
people have done. Of course, the
strike viii terminate as it should
do, in the triumph Of the newspaper
proprietors. for they are right in
their determination to manage their
own business in their own way,
Wi.lOu IONS Iii g lie wishes Of a (
Irin ere UniQAs II