The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-12-18
HAND IN HAND.
Cleveland and Hendricks United
for the COuntry's Veal.
Written for THE HERALD. /

Written for The HERALD.
Calumniation generally arises FROM
some disconnected brain and for express
purposes. In this great country,
wherein is permitted freedom of speech,
articles most libelous are written con-
corning those whom the people have
entrusted to represent their interests
and aid by their wisdom the manage
ment of the ship of state and national
affairs. When a candidate is announced,
then the most scurrilous attacks are
made upon his personal and private
character. The newsmOnger or tale
vendor does not hesitate to debauch the
privacy of his home and resort to all
known means of SANDER. We do not
advocate such We take q manin pub
lie life; we carefully review his course
and then determine either our ability or
inability to support him for any office of
public trust. If ne has proven faithful
in minor positions; if he has the native
capacity to grapple higher ones so
as to rebound to the credit OF his con-
stituency and reflect honor upon
himself, then we become his ardentsup-
porter; but on the other hand, if he has
subverted the trust repOsed in him, and
made his high position q screen for OBJ
tanning wealth, then we are loud in our
denunciatiOns. When the testimony OIL
the people at the polls on November 4th
was given, we trusted the campaign,
most noted as one pre-eminently given
to defamation of character, had ended;
but to our chagrin many yet remain
with their little hatchetS raised ever
ready to besmear it, and their last
browning effort is that President-elect
Cleveland and Vice President-elect
Hendricks have quarreled, and
have commenced attacking each
other most scandalously. Is not
the season for such ended? 1t
seems not, and instead of making con-
verts, the originator of this last SANDER
will avail for himself or his party moth
| ing, and strengthen Democracy's belief
in their champions. To argue or write
| that Mr.. Hendricks would make foul or
| desecrable remarks would be received
| by the country as emanating from some
mad brain, or from one who has failed
to receive official cognizance.
In the great struggle of 1876 Mr.. Hen
bricks proved himself a gentleman in
every sense of the word. He bowed in
submission to the decree of the electoral
commission. when he knew he could
! have thrown the nation into most
embittered strife. His conduct during
that critical period was such that encO-
miums were heaped upon the venerable
statesman by Europeans and Americans
alike. So now TO represent that pure
and patriotic hero as a slanderer. Is
most prepOSterOus; nay, too absurd to
| be entertained by any sane man. His
! speeches during the heated campaign
! Just over were restricted TO party dOingS
| and were far from cenSuring any par
ticular parsonage. Why, at one time,
prior to the election, when it was then
rumOred that he was dissatisfied with
Mr.. Cleveland on the ticket, be re
marked that he had met Mr.. Clevela nd
once and was thoroughly impressed
with him, that he was most original and
sincere and OH the whole. he thought
Democracy did wisely in their selec-
tiOn Too true; the good. the pure. the
patriotic are the objects of vile attacks,
but it will avail nothing only
strengthen the bonds of our party
! and make US more fOrmldabi bic
in the future. The visit of Mr.. Hen
bricks to Albany was only OF q social
nature. Politics never entered into
their conversation. yet. says one, they
disagreed as to the Cabinet That can
be quashed most terribly when we re-
mind them of Mr.. Cleveland,s remark in
this particular, and we believe at a
time when he was approached on this
subject. He said that at present hewas
Governor of New York, not President of
the United States, and when he re-
signed that position, he would consider
as to whom he will call to place in his
cabinet, and in further extenuation of
the matter said that he had not given
! the Cabinet matter 4 thought, nor
would not as long as he was Governor.
Now is the time TO shut up. If man
/ be dead, he cannot be alive. Politically
| dead is RepublicaniSm, so they who still
cling around the old hag-pole of forlorn
hopes had better lay aside their petty
feelings, and seek pastures green ard
more inviting than the sterile plains
upon which they now live Living in
glass houses, as they do, it is high time
they had ceased casting stones. BY
their bowling, they injure. deprave
themselves; none others.
Good citizens. be they Democrats,
Greenbackers, Republicans or what not.
fully understand that Cleveland and
Hendricks were united on the ticket
for the country's veal, and have every
assurance that all legislation enacted
and sanctioned by them will be sufficient
evidence of their good will one for the !
other, and that they will go hand in /
hand doing everything not for self /
aggrandiz ement but for the w,lfare Cf 4
the United States of America.
DEMOCRAT.
Dec. 18th, 1888.