The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-06-11

The dispatch which came over the
wires the otl.er day, saying that an effort
was being made in Vermont to retire
Senator Edmunds, is full Of interest to
the people of Utah. 1t is true we can
do nothing to help the cause along, and
it is unfortunate that the best wishes
and earnest desires of the community
cannot count against him; but II can do
no harm to express the wishes of the
people of the Territory in the premises
Judge Edmunds has been the worst
enemy that Utah ever had, and not for
eaEse but merely to please others. He
has permitted himself to be used by the
wicked and malicious, heartlessly caring
nothing for the effects of the measures
which he has fathered and urged.
So careless has he been in allowing
the use Of his name and influence, that
when his attention was called to cruel
and vicious provision in bill which he
had introduced in the Senate, he ex-
pressed establishment, and confessed
that the bill had been drawn by some
body else and he had introduced 1t
without having read it: his cruelty,
however, was emphasized when he said
that now that the provision was in he
would not ask to have it stricken out,
though he would not oppose an amend
ment to that extent, provided the
amendment would not displace the bill
or delay its passage; if it would do the
latter, he would insist upon the bill
going through with all its wicked pro-
visions. A man who will consent to
legislation of that character and in that
way, even though his victims
are the. despised Mormons, ought
not to be a legislator. He can
not be good man, however learned he
may be and whatever his degree of
skill and training in craftsmanship. He
has cost this Territory millions of
money and brought much suffering to
people, sparing neither the innocent
nor guilty.
The opposition to judge Edmunds |
arises largely from the fact that he re-
fused to do anything for his party last |
summer. He gave no money and
though repeatedly solicited to deliver
some speeches for the ticket, declined to
take part in the campaign, and it is said !
that he did not vote. He wanted the
nomination for the Presidency, and |
failing to get it, he was so vengeful that
he gladly saw his party fail.
Speaking of the movement to retire
him, the Omaha Republican, says:
We can think of nothing that would
give the people generally greater pleas
ure than the retirement of 1.-The watch
dog of the Senate" to that private lite
he SO gracefully adorns. Mr.. Edmunds
has been posing before us as great man
until we have all come to know that he
is small-souled, envieus, disloyal, vim
dictive and not altogether able. We
have seen the real man under the
austere and pompous guise which he
has so delighted to assume.
The vanity of Senator Edmunds has
caused him to overlook the people. As
10 what they may think, he presents a
supreme indifference which has the as
peet of contempt 1t is This fact, as
well as his attitude towards the Repub-
lean. party in the Presidential cam
oaign which has given birth to opposi-
ion to him in Vermont. a State con
;picuous in the past for loyalty and
steady adherence to the principles of
The candidates named
n opposition TO Edmunds include some
treng men and if a determined struggle
$ made for the place it is probable that
he sRlklng Achilles will be defeated