Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-08-15
"THE EVEN TENOR OF ITS Way


After reading the IribHHe editorial this
morning entitled, "Let Us See About 1t,
it is a great assurance and relief to know
that the "Tribune is moving on the even
tenor of its way" for it would be impos-
sible to come to any other conclusion after
reading the article referred to, than that
it was moving in very jerky and uneven
way, and that the symptoms OF insanity
were very pronounced. Yes, the Tribune
is still moving on in the same old way,
"the even tenor OF its way" as it terms it,
and its article is filled with filth and vul-
garity The Tribune is unable to distin-
guish between wit and vulgarity, and
vulgarity being more in accord with its
taste it chooses that and thinks it is using
wit. 1t is like Moliere's Bourgeois Cen
tilhomme, who was always speaking
prose or poetry, and when the master
told him that such was the case, it de-
lighted the poor gentleman beyond ex-
pressio" for prior thereto he did not
kn, ra. ne had been speaking, and
he thUught il a great discovery, only the
T,qbu,e is either saying witty things or
vulgar things, but its wit, like the Gen
tilhonme's poetry, is very scarce.
The Tslb,. ne does not even attempt to
answer the 'i;zisms of the DEMOCRAT,
but avoids the real issue. The Tribune
yesterdsv morn had this low and con-
temptlb.e 20 1leA to make upon the
Democrats CT Utah:
In the meantime, the hungry crowd wait
impatiently and thele is trouble all around.
About the most anxious set are the poor
wretches III Utah who are looking for Demo-
cratic mamma. Their srrieks are growing
shrill and loud daily; they remind one of a
coyote who nears ? sheep corral after heavy
snow-storm. The odoE Of mutton is in the
air even while The pangS of hunger are
wrenching his yl6als and there is only fence
between him and bonanza. But he cannot
pull down the fence, neither can he scale it,
and so on his shrunken launches he walls
his sorrows forth to the pitiless moon. 1t is
a hard case, surely.
VIII the Tribune, when moving in
the even tenor of its way" tell whom it
did mean when these lines were written
1t is not possible to construe this into any
thing other than a reference to Demo
cratic applicants for Office in Utah Terri
tory. 1t is nothing but bitter, partisan
bigotry that prompted such writing. 1t
is well for the Tribune to ignore all thi~
and use all its black art to coniure up
something different and entirely foreign
to whatwas the cause of the D moo Rat
criticism. 1t tries to make a point by
saying that eve did fight MIR. Cleveland'-
election a little last slnmsr; ual-w w
been in State We would have 'pu ght "A 20
hard, because az vas unknown ani IA.
oppose by nan OF nltiona. reputation
who was especially pronoln,ed ami
soun Oh Utah aft tirS. Bat we promise
to support his a1nini5t alton 50 fIr A3 h
proved worthy, all we are glad to say
that his general co Ir3e thus far has been
fine"
People who remember the manner in
which the Tribune "did fight Mr. Cleve-
lands election little last summer" will
be inclined to think that it was not done
in the most genteel and argumentative
manner, and that the Tribune now puts
the case little mild, to say the least. 1t
may be a source of pride to the Tribune
to know that the manner in which it
oln Of T1o,.ol,,,l
little last summer" is known at Washing
ton, and that gentleman in this city re-
ceived a letter from Colonel d. S.
Lamont saying that the DEMOCRAT
containing the extracts from the
Tribune on the President, Vice
President, Secretary Lamar and
others had been received, for which
the gentleman was warmly thanked and
informed that the extracts had been read
and were duly appreciated. The gentle
man did not forward the Tribunes them
selves containing the articles in question,
because the Tribune only "holds the
foremost place among newspapers for a
thousand miles in either direction" and
Washington, it must be remembered, is
a thousand miles away from the further
most limit of the country in which it
"holds the foremost place among
newspapers for a thousand miles in
either direction" The Tribune being SO
anxious and willing to give names, will it
please say to whom it referred when it said
"about the most anxious set are the poor
wretches in Utah who are looking for
Democratic manna?" When the official
returns of the late election are in we
shall be anxious and willing to discuss its
result and to see whether the DEMOCRAT
"made fool OF itself before the cleo
tion." We are confident that the result
will show in favor of the Democratic
ticket as against the Liberal or Repub-
lican ticket which ran for the same offices
August 9Th, 1888. The Tribune will be
surprised, but not pleased.
PLEA FOR REPI1RT JCANS