The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-12-07
OUR FUTURE.
A Democrat States Some Truths in
Regard to 1t.
Written For THE HERALD.

Written For THE HERALD.
The plainest words are the most pro-
ftable oratory in weightiest matter.
This pearl of thought is most strikingly
exemplified in all the sayings of Presi-
dent-elect Cleveland When that ster-
ling, plain Governor defined his position
in pithy, plain acceptance, the country
was dumbfounded at his probity, and
when from that same brain emanated !:
1.-The law of the land must be OBJ
served" we knew that upon Cleveland's
success depended a great nations pros
perity. Mr.. Cleveland fully understands
that all changes, to be permanent and
improving, must be gradual. Leaps and
jumps are not successfully taken either
IN mental advancement or in moral
character. So, then, quietly. but surely,
will all the great evils of the past
twenty-fOur years rise luminously to
the surface, through the stringent, hon
est scrutiny of him whom DemOc-
racy has intrusted to represent
justice for the next four years
In the United States are Ill 900 Federal
officials, and of this number $1,000 are
postmasters. Only IL, 900 of these ap-
pOintments will come under the civil
service rules, and Mr.. Cleveland's su-
peTior Judgment will place in positions of
trust the remaining 5000. Among the
many vile, obnoxious sheets advocating
rottenness and corruption can be en-
umerated one, more prominent than all
the rest, and that one is the Commercial
Gazette, printed and published in a GER
tam village bearing name more ennob-
hn rfcra Olyavn 10 Ne
people at the polls quite recently. That
village is located in Blaine's pet State,
Ohio, and is known as Cincinnati. That
paltry sheet still waves aloft the bloody
shirt, and is striving hard to inform its
readers that the southern people are a
most atrocious set of bull-dozers, intimi-
dators and the like. The business
men of that river village are alarmed.
Wen might they be, for they depend
upon southern products, and the
aeg taHdlzemen1S n success. of sunny
southland is their success as well. The
war ended long years ago; that fratri-
cidal contest is a thing of the
past, and, SO far as the
south is concerned, she is willing, nay,
anxious to forget the unpleasantneSs of
the engagement, get sqIiarely to hard
work, and redeem her lost prestige
Yet such indiotic fools as those who in
dite editorials for the Commercial Gazette
are apt to renew the bitter feelings that
had well nigh died out but for their con-
tinuous revival by such cattle. Let
them drop the matter, it is too foul, too
desecrable to receive further cognizance
from any sane man in the United States.
When we say that no Democrat of out
spoken views could hold Office under the
Republican party, we speak from
knowledge of such; and as time moves
slowly onward, the order will reversed
This is the unwritten law of parties and
OF nations. In the grand old Demo-
cratic party can be found ample
material to fill every post of honor, and
give its adherents the preference.
Republicanism, through its politically
defunct statesman, whose residence has
been changed from Augusta, Maine, to
the capital OF the nation, will closely
watch US, probing for errors to use in
the campaign of 1888. Having outlived
its original mission and being no longer
animated by any vital principle or pur-
pose beyond the lust for office, it will
fall apart and no longer present solid
front. The Democratic party has sur
vived, because it is the fittest. Its
principles are undying, and its main
policies are in accord with those con-
templated by the founders of the gov
eminent. The great victory of 1884 is
grand ratification of the Declaration OF
independence and gives assurance to all
mankind that Democracy means gov
eminent of the people, for the people,
and by the people. DEMOCRAT.
SALT LAKE CITY, December 4. '84.