Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-07-22
FOR SELECTMAN:
BOLIVAR ROBERTS.
AS OTHERS SEE US.

The Democrats are being censured and
condemned on all sides, and soon they
will be entitled to make the claim of
being the chosen people, on account Of
the persecution and revilement that is
being heaped upon them. The last re-
vilement of them comes from the Terri
toriGI Enquirer, a paper printed at Provo,
and one that is only fit for "treason,
stratagems and spoils," and to fol-
low the course laid out for it.
Being low and contemplate, and
without character, place or patron
age, it is a most fit channel to convey
slander and misrepresentation. Claiming
to stand on high level of morality and
to be guided by the love of truth and lib
erty, it dwells in the depths of envy and
vice. 1t would prefer to see a man sink
to its own level rather than to see him rise.
That which is nearest and dearest to its
heart is obscenity and unchastity 1t
makes pretensions to independence, yet
none are so groveling and servile. Having
no manhood, it envies and hates man.
hood in others. 1t is an epitome of all
that is and should not be.
The latest effort of this paper is to
vent its wit and spleen upon the Demo-
cratic meeting of last Saturday. The En-
guirer says: "The object, we say, was
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ticket because scarcely a reference was
made to the ticket itself, but instead
thereof each speaker iercely attacked
the religion and motives of the Latter
day Saints' This is an error, not inten-
tional, but still an error. 1t is the En-
quirer that has misrepresented the
Democratic meeting. The Peoples
party was attacked at that meeting, but
is the Enquirer 50 lost to all sense Of
truth and decency as to charge that the
politics of the Peoples party and the
religion of the Latter-day Saints
are one and the same thing? If all who
do not see as sees the Enquirer are block
heads, pray what are those who see as ii
claims to see? If it has any following
but it has not, so it would be useless to
make even a supposition concerning it.
In speaking of Mr.. Rawlins and his re-
marks concerning his candidacy, it made
the following comment:
"a great majority of the people of Utah,
Il. A.,l,.
be true, but then it is the genuine Democ-
racy they lay claim to--not Young Democ-
racy, but old Democracy-the pure unadul-
terated essence of the thing itself. Joseph
didn't say this however; it is little interpo-
lation of our own
Will the Enquirer be so good as to ex-
plain what genuine" Democracy is? We
feel to censure ourselves for asking such
question of such a paper, for it could
not be good, and if such by any means it
might be, it could not explain what 'gen-
uine" Democracy is, nor even the politics
of the party to which it belongs. Would
it not be well for the genuine" Demo
papers of the Peoples party are always
talking about genuine" Democracy? 1t
seems only to spring up in that party,
and possibly the reasons why it never
forsakes that party and assumes its true
name, is because there is divinity that
doth hedge genuine" Democracy about
the same as king.
We said that it was in obscenity that
the Enquirer chiefly loved to dwell. Here
is the base and obscene insinuation that
it makes against the Democrats:
For instance that notorious Payson Sc
ducer of female virtue took unto himself
considerable iberty-much more than the
law allows-but because he happens to be a
Democrat-which we understand he is-that
is no reason--is it?-why the law should not
regulate his liberty. If the little liberty as
sumed by members of the Peoples party
should be regulated by law, why are not the
great and extraordinary liberties taken by
Democrats, Republicans and Liberals also
regulated by lawT'
SO full of insinuations is this paper that
it even insinuates against the Peoples
party, and saws eff the little liberty
assumed by members Of the Peoples
party should be regulated by law"
The Democratic party does not believe
in allowing any man liberty to violate the
laws and not be punished therefor,
whether that man be Democrat, Mormon
or Republican. Can your party say so
much, Enquirer!
The paper then makes this low insinu-
alton: