The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-02-05
OUR REASONS.

The HERALD has been taken to task
for having said that it preferred Cleve
land would fill the Federal officers il
this Territory by appointments from
the States instead of from Utah. TIL
HERALD didn't mean to be understood
as saying any such thing in the sens
that our friendly critic takes the mat
ter. Inc Democratic party is com
mitted to the policy of Territorial off
ces being filed by citizens of the Terri
tories, and this is the true policy, being
nearer in harmony with the republican
principle of government than the one
pursued by the Republican party As to
all the other Territories in the UnionTHE
HERALD hopes President Cleveland will
faithfully live up to the declaration in
the national platform to which he has
subscribed, putting residents of de-
tendency in the Federal offices. in that
dependency. The local citizen can best
perform the duties of the officer; he
knows best the people and what they
require, and what will come nearest to
satisfying them; his interests are the
same as theirs, and what benefits the
country most will be most beneficial to
him and them. As a rule, the i'm
ported" official is interested only in the
matter OF his salary, the quarterly pay
ment OF which is what keeps him in
the Territory. When his term
expires he clutches his grip-sacK,
and departs, the Territory being no
more to him thereafter than it was be-
fore he came into it. We 1lieve that
the Territory which is ohAce ed by its
own people will be more peaceful and
more prosperous than one where Fed
erai officials are carpet-baggers. Hence,
it is the sincere hope that the Deepen
denotes will hereafter be governed and
have their laws applied by their own
citizens.
More than all others would THE
HERALD be pleased if the Federal
officials in this Territory were to be
taken from the bona fide citizens who
would best serve the people and work
for the best interests of Utah, but is
there man here who imagines such
thing could be? If the officials were
to be taken from local citi-
zels, we all know too well
the class from which the selections
would be made, and we know also that
the persons most likely to be chosen
would be infinitely worse than the
average grip-sacker. 1t is true, Mr..
Cleveland will be President, and will
have the appointment of certain off,
GERS; but it is quite as true that Presi-
dent Cleveland will have behind him
party that he will not be permitted to
disrupt or injure. He will not be al
lowed to shoulder upon the party a
load that the Democracy objects to
carrying, even though he might be dis
posed to weight it down, which latter
it is not believed he has any desire to
do. He is responsible to the country
at large for the wise administration of
his office, and he is responsible also to
the Democratic party. If Presi-
dent Cleveland were to an
point to any Office here, a citizen
of the Territory who was conservative.
fair and bipartisan, who would be in
terested only in the honest performance
of his duties, with the view to the best
good of the people, doesn't everybody
knew that the President would at once
be charged with affection for the Nor
mons, and that the Democracy as a
national party would be made to
shoulder the weight of polyeamv?
Whatever Mr.. Cleyeland's private feel
Jugs might be in the premises, the partv |
at whose head he stands, would compel |
him, as measure of protection, to
take men for Office who were pronounce d |
in their anti-Mormon views. This is
speaking plainly, but it is as true as it
is plain, and wise men know it. 1t NAV
be said that the President should be
independent of party in the admins
tration, and as political proposition
this is correct, but as a matter of fact
there is no such thing in our govern
ment as independence of the Office
holder; from the President down to the
toz,a constable they are all tied TO
party more or less, and subject to party
control or direction in some degree. 1t
is believed that Cleveland viii come as Fl
near to independence as any of our
have been, but everybody
viii be mistaken il he does anything
hat he can well avoid which viii in
ure the Democracy or lessen its chances
or continuing in the mastery.
THE HERALD could designate scores
# men, Gentle and Mormon,
gho would serve the govern
nent and the people of Utah J