Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-10-24
THE NEW YORK CAMPAIGN.

The New York campaign is getting
warm. If the Republicans are to be be-
heved, (but they are not) the Democrats
are the worst people in the world, while
the Republicans are altogether too good
even for, the society OF heavens upper
ten. Governor-elect Foraker, of Ohio,
made tremendous speech in which he
praised the Republicans to the sky, and
found words inadequate to tell how mean
the Democrats are. He said that when
the Republicans went out of the national
offices, they went out with colors flying,
bands playing, and every man standing
six feet high and looking the world
square in the face. La! they must
have looked just like regular
band of Goliaths OF Gath. If
they looked the world square in the face,
it was on account Of cheek and not be-
cause OF a clear conscience. If Judge
Foraker hadn't said that they looked the
world square in the face, we would have
thought that they rather looked back
with regret, somewhat after the manner
of Lots wife. Judge Foraker had to
speak of John Roach. Certainly he did,
because John Roach has become a ma
tional ISSUE "John Roach, that poor old
Irishman, is broken up.' 1t was a
very bad break that Roach made.
What will become of the United
States when Roach is translated?
Judge Foraker said that because John
Roach was broken up by the Democrats,
which is not true, one of the leading
industries of the country was broken
down. If by this was meant that ship
building in this country was broken down,
Judge Foraker was wrong; but if he
meant the days of shipbuilding jobs for
which the Government paid and got sub
stantially nothing in return, Judge For
aker is right The worst charge made
against the Democratic party was that
the new postal cards had the face of
Thomas Jefferson upon them instead OF
that of the Goddess of Liberty. A dozen
or fifteen years ago the Republican party
put the picture of a railroad engine and
track upon the three-cent postage stamp
in place of the face of Washington. 1t was
done not out of .disrespect to Washington.
but to commemorate the Credit Mobeliel
transactions, no doubt. In his tribute to
the memory of jefferson, Judge Foraker
said he was 'fthe author of that damn
able resolution" which had caused all the
trouble in this country since that time
Perhaps Foraker referred to the Declare.
ton of Independence, and perhaps he
referred to the Kentucky resolution. Ac.
cording to Foraker, Thomas Jefferson
was the worst man that ever lived. What
great pity it is that Judge Foraker die
not live in the early part of the century
and especially in 1901, SO that he could
have told the people what terrible mar
Jefferson was. Judge Foraker has fal
less sense than we thought for
and this New York speech does not show
him to be either broad or just in hi
views. He scarcely has the hardihood
to censure Cleveland, although tits prob
able that he had the desire. He said i
did not make any difference what kin,
of man is President, in speaking Q
Cleveland, but he said it did make dii
ference what kind of party and polio,
there are behind him. If this is the case
perhaps it makes nodifference what kim
of man is Governor OF Ohio. Plenty G
taffy was given to the Irish, and Foraker
was so good as to declare that 'sif Parnell
with his tariff views, lived in the Unite
States he would be Republican" HI,
looked to gallant John Wise" in Vir
ginia to break the back of th'
'Solid South,'' but the proba
bilities are that he will Loo
vain. Foraker wanted the Republ
cans to have ''not only Ohio and New
York, but the whole earth, Virginia in
Guided" Well, they ought to have it bt
cause they are the ''party of ideas" Their
is one most essential thing wanting in thi
desire, which is the wish to have heave
itself, for it is written, "What shall
profit a man if he gain the whole worl
and lose heaven ?"