Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-07-25
FOE SELECTMAN:
BOLIVAR ROBERTS.
NONE IN THE FIELD.
Says this mornings Tribune:

The DEMoCRAT is anXlouS to know which
the Tribune would prefer to see triumph at
the August election, the Peoples party or
the Democratic party. The Tribune does
not believe that there IS any Democratic
party in the field. As to the two parties now
in the field both have made haste to declare
their eternal hostility to the Tribune. Why
should the DEMOCRAT be concerned about the
preferences of this journal?
We feel sure that those Democrats who
are in the field will be very much graft
fed to know that they have not the en-
dorsement of the independent" organ.
To tell the politics of the Tribune would
be to tell which way the wind would
blow on the morrow. Like the Territorial
Enquirer, the Tribune, We presume, is a
genuine" Democrat, and on account of
it's love of genuineness was the strongest
supporter of Mr. Blaine during
the campaign of any paper in
the West. Seeing that the cam
erican" true blue Democratic Tribune
does not believe there is a Democratic
ticket in the field, let us see what it said
about the Democracy of President Cleve-
land in November last On the Sth Of
November last it had the following notes
of praise to sing for Cleveland and De-
mocracy, and the hymn was sung edi-
torially:
when, two years ago, two hundred thou
sand so-called Republicans sulked in their
tents, and, by refusing to Uote for dtSttn-
tin1uiShed statesman, permitted an an
haaoaUn man to be elected Governor OF the
Empire State by an overwhelming nldyoflty,
The Tribune expressed the fear that the
great triumph of the election would eventu-
aIly prove to be to the majority that in Utah.
behind the shield of creed, are building up
a hostile kingdom in the midst of the United
States 1t looks at this writing as though
we were right. We do not propose to
try to anticipate what the AdmlnIstra-
tion of the Democracy, with Mr.. Cleve-
land as the executive, will be. We only
know what the chief elements have
been which have secured his success, if such
sucoess is secured We k1loIU there IS not q
man aoho has eUer killed a negro to precent
a fair Uote GUhO as not rejoicing to-day oUef
the return to p0lUenloT party lChtch lCtu
qteUer interfere Cith him II, an future, ne de-
teY'nines to repeat that delicious pdStine.
We know that the men who, in the North,
when treason and rebellion had the Nation
by the throat, were loud in their assertions
that the Constitution gave to the Govern
ment no possible right of self-defense, are
everywhere rejoicing to-day, ana that one
who was among the most obnoxious of the
whole company has apparently been
elected to the Vice-Presidency of the
TInited States We knOlC that the party
aUhich has ever been friendly, as IUhoLe, to
the Ld7U-breaherS an Utah, as apparently re-
stored to potUeT. We do not believe IN MIRA
Giles: do not believe that while still In the
Aesh men are given a second birth, and
hence we have no present hope that party
which is controlled as the Democratic party
ia controlled, and made up of such elements
as il is made up of, will ever see anything to
shock it in the anomalous state OF affairs
which Utah presents. AT the same time, the
Tribune is an American, anti-Mormon mis-
sionary paper, and it will deal fairly with
events as they transpire daily
IfMy. Cleveland bellies oil his former ante
cedents, and deUeIopS into a gredt-latRded
man. aud If his comprehension expands un-
Ill he understands that the oath Of the
Chief Magistrate TO protect and defend the
Constitution Of the United States, and to
execute the laws, applies to Utah as to every
other part of the Republic, the Tribune will
give him earnest praise.
= Our faith in the men of the
Northern States of this Republic is greatly
shaken to-day but we have full faith that
the right will triumph, and SO we look the
future confdentially in the face and give to
our crow sauce of faith which makes it
substantial diet, albeit it would be idle to
attempt to conceal the fact that in times
past we have tasted more savory dishes.
1t is complimentary to the President
and the Democratic party, is it not? Let
all Democrats remember that this is
from an independent" paper and one
that says there IL no Democratic ticket in
the field. So overAowing was the Trj-
bune with independence" and "genu-
inc" Democracy that in the same issue it
had the following editorial notes iii the
minor chord:
We wonder if Mr. Beecher will be Secre-
tary of State under Mr. Cleveland. No more
appropriate selection could possibly be made.
There is a close sympathy between the two
gentlemen. They have both had trials IN
the past and now, with such thoughts as the
truly good are always sustained by, they
could, in leisure hours, compare experiences,
rejoice together over all the sorrows they
have surmounted, and make one of the hap
piest families imaginable.
If the clergyman who preached the loyal
sermon which SO offended MIR. Hendricks in
1861 is still alive. how he must hate himself
now for having been true to his country
when treason was striking at Its throat.
In the press of matter which has been
coming over the wires since Tuesday, n any
dispatch has been sent announcing that Mr..