Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-08-25
WAS IT 4 FNqLURE?


ceived exceeded the Liberal vote OF 1888.
The showing made by the DEMOCRAT may
have been parade, or it may not;
but certain it is that tested by the result
of the election of 1885 as compared with
that of 1888, the Democrats made no
mistake in declining to form fusion
ticket. But the Trjbuae makes this COM
ment:
Everybody who was here knows that
there was perfect apathy here among Gen
tiles in 1888. because of the utter hopeless
ness of the result and because or othef
things not necessary at this time to be men
toned
Let us grant all that this states and all
that it implies, still it must be admitted
that the Democrats in 1885 succeeded in
arousing more people from their "perfect
apathv'' than did the Liberals in 1883.
Then comes this account OF the Trj-
JuRc:
''When we look at the sounding manifesto
with which the DEMOCRAT opened the cam
paign and then at the result, the failure Is
SO palpably, utterly overwhelming that ones
compassion is enlisted and generous man
has not the cruelty to laugh.
Was there anything more sounding in
that manifesto" than the "manifestoes'
of the Liberal party? One thing there
was not in that "maniiesto"-a bombastic
use of all phrases about Glove OF country, "
"devoted band," and "true Americans"
These and like phrases have been used
so much here by the Republicans
that the very sight of them makes one
almost sick, and one could not avoid the
thought that those who were so constantly
using them protested a little too much.
But the Tribune says that 'the failure is
so palpably, utterly overwhelming that
ones compassion is enlisted and a gener-
GUS man has not the cruelty even to
laugh" II such is the case, surely the
failure of the Democrats TO carry the
election is not so great nor so utterly
overwhelming failure as was the at
tempt of the Liberals in 1888. Is every
thing failure in elections that does not
carry all before it? On the hy-
pothesis that anything less than
absolute victory at the polls is an
utterly overwhelming failure, then it
is Just as certain that the same failure
would have occurred had there been Il
fusion ticket in the field; and the Re-
publican party should pass vote OF cen
sure condemning the action OF the Re-
publican Central Committee for propos-
ing such a thing as fusion ticket which
was sure to meet with failure.
The Tribune makes number OF eX-
tracts from the DEMOCRAT OF July 10th,
not one of which we should modify
in any particular had we to write them
over again, and says that "in effect we
said ''that all Liberal platforms have
heretofore, in effect, been Republican
platforms" SO we did, and so we say
to-day. 1t draws some conclusions which
are entirely unwarranted, which we shall
not undertake to refute, except one. Here
it is:
Again, if they did not mean to say that
all Liberal tickets had been composed OF
carpet-baggers, there was nothing in thell
words
Just before this the Tribune had quoted
from our issue of July 10th the following
Zone thing it cannot be charged that the
ticket is composed of carpet-baggers."
Il .; 80, .l,;e ,o,,,,,, tIot +I,a,, bo CO 10 !,
statement above quoted. Now, is there
any warrant whatever in our statement
for the inference that the Tribune draws
The DEMoCRAT's article from which the
extract is made, is complete refutaticr
of any such inference, but as we cannot
reproduce the article in full, we will give
the reason for that statement. As every
one here knows, whenever any ticket has
been placed in the field in opposition tc
the Peoples party it has been the custom
of the papers of that party and all Its
members to say that those opposed tC
them were carpet-baggers. Now, We
made the above quoted statement about
things in mind, and made it because
quite a number OF the candidates on the
Democratic ticket were born in Utah,
while the other candidates had been here
many years; and this being the case, in
the very nature of things il was an inn
possibility to charge the Democratic
candidates with being carpet-baggers
This is all there was in our remark, and
we are unable to see how any person
could construe them as the Tribune has
Somewhat further on, the Tribune says
"They went forth to capture the Mormon
vote, and were utterly beaten in their at
tempt. To do so they deemed it necessary
TO openly insult the men who have made
their existence here, outside the Mormon
church, possible.
Certainly such statements are at least
broad, and arrogate TO those who make
them all the importance TO which they
are entitled. As the Tribune says the
Republicans were insulted, then the Re-
publcans alone care the men who made
their existence Il. e. those who were en-
gagged in the late election) ''here, outside
the Mormon church, possible" Surely
this will be news TO some who were here
even before the Tribune was established.
But is not this claim much the same as
that of the Peoples party that that party
made it possible for the Gentiles to live
in Utah, and hence the Peoples party
should be allowed full sway, without let
or hindrance? Still further on the Tri-
JuBe has this:
"Their organization was composed of men
who had stood aloof for wears and sneered