Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-08-14
"POOR WRETcHES. !"

Gratis for office After treating the ques-
ton generally, it treats it locally, and
makes this comment upon Utah Demo
Gratis:
"In the meantime the hungry crowd
wait impatiently, and there is trouble all
around. About the most anxious set are
the poor wretches in Utah who are
looking for Democratic mamma. Their
shrieks are growing shrill and loud daily;
they remind one OF a coyote who nears
sheep corral after heavy snow storm.
The odor of mutton is in the air even
while the pangs of hunger are wrenching
his vitals, and there is only fence be-
tween him and a bonanza. But he can
not pull down the fence, neither can he
scale it, and so on his shrunken launches
he walls his sorrows forth to the pitiless
moon. 1t is hard case, surely"
Let those Democrats who may have ap
piled for an office in Utah remember
that the Tribune is an American, anti
Mormon paper" and says that there are
no politics in Utah. Let them also re-
member that when Democratic ticket
was in the field that this "Ameri-
can, anti-Mormon paper" did all in
its power to harm that ticket, and termed
those who were doing all in their power
to make Democracy triumphant squad,
and said "that it is clear enough to those
who have watched these patriots from the
first, that really they are but the tail of
the Mormon kite" Let the Democrats
of Utah remember that at the last meet
ing which was held during this same cam
paign there spoke Hon. Thomas Marshall,
Col. Samuel A. Merritt and Hon. R. n
Basl1in. But still the Tribune, the
American, anti-Mormon paper, spoke of
the Democrats who were engaged in the
campaign as "the tail of the Mormon
kite" So far as we are aware not
a single Democrat who has made
application for Office was ever in any
way connected with the Mormon church /;
yet the Tribune, this great American.
anti-Mormon paper" says OF these gen.
tlemen that "about the most anxious set
are the poor wretches in Utah who are
looking for Democratic mamma. " But
the Tribune, in its independence and in
its intense Americanism, is not content
with characterizing the Democrats of
Utah who are applicants for Office as
"poor wretches," but says that they
remind one of the "coyote who nears
sheep corral after heavy snow storm. "
Such language as this and such compari
sons as these are mild and respectful
when compared with the manner in
which this same american, anti-Mor-
mon paper spoke of President Cleve-
land last summer. Then there was
nothing too base to accuse him Of, no
crime that he was not equal to. Still
there is nothing extraordinary in this,
for ever since the American, anti-Mor-
mon paper" was established, when not
otherwise engaged, it has devoted its time,
space and energy to abusing Democrats.
And some who call themselves Demo-
Gratis have humbly and meekly taken all
this abuse and vilifcation without a MUIR
mur, and merely because the main issue
was paramount to all things, even de-
cency, manhood and self-respect. There
may be questions and issues paramount
to these things, but we don't believe it.
We have said it before and we say it
again that the Tribune would prefer the
rule of the Mormon church in Utah to
the rule of the Democratic party.
And we say further that the Tribune has
no need nor sympathy for Americans,
Democrats or any one else who will not
accept as infallible the creed of the Re-
publican party and bow before the shrine
of its corruption. And further still, we
say that the Tribune has sought to use as
slaves the nom Mo'mons, the same as the
Ne0s has used the Mormons;
but for its purposes it lacked
even the pretext of faith. With
its talismanic cry OF Mormonsm it has
half frightened the non Mormons out of
their senses and has beat them into its
own bushel; and it should be remem-
bered that that bushel is an ultra-Repub-
lican bushel. The spell of its power in
this direction is partly broken, and it is
to be hoped that all Democrats will give
it, so far as political matters are con-
cerned, the contempt which it so richly
deserves. 1t has attempted to fly high
into the air as the American eagle, while
in reality it has been but Brazilian
buzzard. 1t has declared itself independ-
ent in politics while none have been so |
partisan. 1t has long and loudly pro-
claimed that its only solicitude was for
the good of the common country, but !
when men have sought to do anything to |
better matters here that did not follow on |
the line of its own petty and peevish pol |
icy this American, anti-Mormon paper"
has done all it could to hinder those men. !
1t has posed az reformer, and that |
which has been most prominent about it |
is its own hideous deformity. 1t has
shouted freedom until the mountain tops
gave back the shout, but it would put in
bondage all who shout not in its discord-
ant key. Its whole history is the history
of hypocrisy. The result of its work has /
been to make error more confirmed and /
crime increase. Such, in part, is the Tri- /
b,,ae, this american, anti-MoImon pa
per, " this paper which in the conceit of its
self-laudation, "holds the foremost place
among newspapers for thousand miles
in either direction" This is the paner