Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-07-27
THE TRIBUNE" AND THE ADMIN
5- ISTRATION.

ISTRATION.
Saturday we promised to give the pub
lie some extracts from the Tribune and
what it had to say regarding President
Cleveland and Democrats in general.
On November 4th it wrote as follows:
While waiting for the verdict to-day it
may not be improbable to review briefly the
campaign Just closed, and to try to estimate
the position of the two great parties. On
the one hand is a candidate who is a natural
leader among men; who, for twenty years
past, has been a conspicuous figure, though
around him have revolved the other
giants that, in the field and in the forum,
worked out to deliverance this Republic
when it was assailed by courage. fury
and power which never before were stopped
and rolled back. Opposing him is O. man
aUhO 9CGS nominated for the reason that he
had been fortunate to come an on lUdLk, the
qUinner of q great Tdce-1CinHer because the
other jockeys sat dOlUn on the track and quar-
relied 1Uhen the race lUdS called. Another rea-
son was because the previous obscurity of the
man gave reasonable hope that there was
nothing in his past life which could be as
sailed. One went into the fight with the
Administration in the hands of his friends,
which is an advantage, but no such an ad-
vantage as it is represented to be. 4 The
other candidate went into the contest with
the understanding that fourteen States were
his with their 153 electoral votes: that all
that was needed to work for was forty-eiSht
votes in the North and Far West. This was
assured by none of the ordinary reasoning
which is supposed to prevail in a Republic,
but such as is frankly stated in the Colum-
bia Is. c. Register and NelcS and Courier
of Charleston, of the same State, which
say: "The organization of UOtey,S aqdinst
IA, 9giI h0 y Mt
tempted, 1t lOU be put dOiUn. If 1t shall sub
mat quietly, Uery aOeLI; if not, 1t aUiU be put
dOlUn." The main question there from the
first has been, Can Mr.. Cleveland obtain
one-ifth of the electoral votes in all that
portion of the Republic where an honest
count and free ballot is assured?
On Nov. %, it had the following, and
as will be noticed, in the first line it said,
"The facts come out one by one"
The facts come out one by one. The State
of Mississippi at the late election polled just
half the votes of her voting population. The
Albany Journal is permitted to print extracts
from letter written since election by
Northern woman now living in Western
Florida to her mother in Mohawk Valley. 1t
is the old story of fraud and terrorism of
which the sensitive ex-Republican papers
are so tired of hearing. "A perfect farce and
description of the election in Florida county,
where she resides. Ia the pTeciRctS the Dem
OcrdtS began operations by preventing some
.fJty Republicans, legal UOterS, from register
ing; then they appointed the most ignorant
negro ill the place Inspector on the RepubIi-
can side; then they stuffed the ballot 6oees;
then, finding that they had overdone the
business, and had more ballots than voters,
they threw out 147, of which 137 were Re
publican and 10 Democratic. AT Madison,
disguised men, brandishing and firing re-
volvers, drove off the inspectors in three of
the largest Republican precincts, and burned
the ballot boxes, ballots and all. An honest |
count would have shown the county Repub- |
hcan by 6S5; it was returned as Democratic |
by PAL. "If the frauds are followed up" |
writes this Northern woman in Florida, ''if |
any arrests are made I'm afraid my hus- |
band will be brutally murdered. These peo- !
pie, many of them active members of the |
Presbyterian church attend, have no con-
science. One of the deacons of our church |
was one of the gang who stuffed the ballot |
box. You have no idea of the murderous /
and dreadful threats constantly hear.''
Every one knows how much the tri- /
umph of the Democratic party was owing
to the action OF the Independent Repub-
licans, or Mugwumps. On November /
2Sth the Tribune endorsed their action as
follows:
Good for the New Haven Republicans!
They fired the Independents away from the
primaries by a unanimous vote. An open
foe is better than a false friend. This action
may keep the party in defeat forever, but
that is better than to set the battle in array
every year, only TO have some regiments
turn their guns upon their own ranks, and
then, after the battle, TO have the traitors
come skulking in, to say, if defeated, sit was
for your good that we fired upon you;' or. if
victorious in spite of them, to claim a full
share of the loot of the enemy's camp. If
there are no essential differences between
the two parties; if it is merely choice of
men, the fact had better be understood at
once. 1t would save a vast amount of trouble
and expense. At all events, we rejoice that
Republicans in New Haven
would have nothing TO do with the traitors,
and we want to see the principle emphasized
in case George VIM. Curtis ever shows his
head in another Republican convention.
On Nov. Sth the Tribune made this
suggestion as to Cabinet Office for Mr..
Beecher: