Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-05-22
WHAT WAS INTENDED.


The Tribune this morning has lon2
and bitter wall over the appointments
which the President is making. Its
article is captioned, Why Grumble? and
says ''it would be just as well 10 keep il
mind that those changes were contracted
for last November If those changes
were contracted for last November, as the
Tribune says, why grumble? But is it
quite certain that all the change was
made for was that new lot might feed
at the government trough? Is there
nothing else in government than grab
for office, hungering for spoils? To-day
there is probably not a Democrat in the
country but who would say that so far as
the abolition Of slavery and the suppress
sion of the doctrine of secession were
concerned, the Republican party was
right. There were also Democrats who
held the same theory as to those two
vital questions, and who fought IN the
Union army that they might prevail.
Even the men in the South who fought in
the Confederate army to destroy the
vitality of those two questions to-day adj
nit that the cause fc which they fought
was not worthy O. success. As evidence
of this, it is ally necessary to refer to
Mr. CabL DIR. Sewer, and the con-
+ro,,ar, which was carried on afterwards
in gard to the statements made in that
,ork. But there are those who are such
intense patriots that they can not forget
the issues of the war, and every time the
new Administration makes an appoint
ment of man who may have been
Confederate, the Republican press are in
a rage at it, especially if the appoint
ment has not been submitted to them for
A few days ago there was some
prospect of the nomination of Zach
ariah Montgomery for Assistant At
being withdrawn, on ac-
count of a great howl which was made
against him, but now he has taken his |
post at his desk and will remain, and the |
patriotic Republicans are in a rage. That
most Republican of all Republicans, the |
Tribune makes the following characteristic
'emark on ike result of last November's
election:
If the election meant anything it
meant that Republicans should get down
nd out, that their places should
'e filled with the men in the South
fho fought in the Confederate army.
nd those who, in the North, sympa-
hized with those who fought in the
outh." 1t is a very generous comment
n the victor to make over the van :
ulsted, is it not? II the election meant !
r the Republicans to "get down and 7
1t, why don't they get? Its generally ;,
lderstood that one Republican in this D D
erritory rendered his resignation, but -
s services are so valuable to his >.
untry that the Administration implored r
m to remain, he having such a compre- :,
'nsive knowledge Of the Utah stu :,
ion. %
OF course it is bad taste for the Tri- = =
ne "to rave because Zach. Montgomery + 7,
rs a secessionist in 1S61-64," when :,
is remembered that "in considering the ~
after we must not forget that this is a :
'rrltory and not State" But the :,
auty OF the whole thing is that the Tri- !
me poses as an independent paper in a
tab, and says there is no Democracy or :, =
here, and would point =,
e way in all things out here. 1t is onlv :.
hen Democratic Administration does
which does not harmonic with
independence that the cloven foot of :.
ra-Republicanism shows itself; but :
EN- it is truly wonderful how soon il y y
ows its true colors. That paper is one =;
those who love to fight over again in
solitude and seclusion of the clositer .,
battles which others fought on the open /,
Id. 1t has not learned that these are /;
war times, and probably never will.
would do well to take heed of a short y
icle in the February Century entitled. ":
ct us Have Peace:'' ~
1t Is somthlng worthy of remark that at 60,
present moment, whenever the old note
sectional hatred is struck, it has iarring Dt
unwelcome sound in the North itself of
true lover of the whole couutrv-nn-
lded and indivisible-is shocked and Id;
ned when that note is sounded.-a note far
was not sounded by Lincoln or Inv
mt even III the thick of the foht II is eX
Iher noticeable that it is to the furv of on
on-combatant, that we generally owe ,,.a
note of discord; while the men who d;d va
hghtlng didit, with malice toward none Gu
charity for all Our men of war hqve D,,
'ed indeed the friends of peace. and NOT
'nemleS. Both read the same Bible as ;
Lincoln, and pray to the same cd. hay
us Judge not that We be not indeed {,
as Grant who stipulated that NOT one mel
-d should be handed to the cononaro,,S whe
tbe &c ;,ls, SoA sIN This is afte
less agltator, but for the philantbronist lord
statesman. In our day the poIitic;ar 81
wears the bloody shirt will be buried ei"'
It," -e0 ure
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VICTOR HUGO. Jan