Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-07-28

and, save in the Virginias, they have hardly
made a sign, knowing that the Govern
rnent. which has q constitution guarantee
ing to every State republican form OF gov
ernment, and which pretends to be protec-
tion to its people, would not protect them IN
their dearest right. This must be changed,
or there will come day of reckoning which
will adjust things, or else the school l-houses
of the North have been built in vain, and
the millions who in the great North and
West make labor glorious, are only mt for
serfdom Nothing viii ever long
dominate this land except heart and brain;
and the men who do the work in the North
and West will not long consent to go into
elections with the knowledge in advance
that their votes count for only one-half what
the votes of men across a river count for.
Before the Democracy, as we see 1t, there
lies a long lease of power if they are only
wise enough and patriotic enough to be just;
but their tenure is most insecure so long as
such a speech as that made by Blaine to his
Augusta friends can be truthfully made.
On December II, in speaking of Mar
shal Lot Wright, who was SO notorious at
Cincinnati last November, and who depu-
tized all the roughs of the city, it said:
Marshal Lot Wright of the Southern Dis
| trict of Ohio talks like man, and his words
hy up into the faces of Congressman
| Springer and his committee like blow. His
| letters, written to his chief in the conf
dence of his Office, have the perfect ring OF
an honest man. If New York had possessed
| one such officer. it might have changed the
whole destiny of the Republic. OF course
| it will not do to stop the investigation now.
| It will have to be pressed with all vigor, for
suddenly the prisoner at the bar turns
! around: in two brief letters he proves an
alibi, and by the same letters arraigns the
party which has tried to convict him, in ad-
| vance of the trial, for high crimes and mis-
demeanors. Lot Wright, ever since the 14th
! of October, has been the object OF unstinted
! abuse from the Democratic press. He made
his defense, it seems, before he was accused.
That is, he wrote the letters which made
his defense. From the tone of those letters,
it is clear that he is the kind of man that
will welcome investigation, and the country
wants to see it go on. The frauds
upon the ballot in three or four Northern
oities have defeated the will of the people
over and over again, and have given offices
to those who were not entitled to them, from
constable up to the President of the United
States. The showing at Cincinnati looks
badly now for the Democracy, but there is
comfort in it for them after all. There will
be no Lot Wright in their way in Cincinnati
in 1888, and it will be easy for them to re-
pOTb heavy SdlllS OVER 1907 III 11dluA1bOL
county
That the Tribune's praise OF the Presi
dent has not only been earnest, but sin
cere, all know. On the 9th of March its ear
nest praise assumed the following shape
1t was very touching that Mr.. Cleveland
insisted upon kissing with flial love hi
mothers Bible when he took the oath al
Chief Magistrate. This reveals the more
tender side of the stern mans life. He ha.
carried that Bible with him from childhood
1t was his stay amid the trying duties of tn,
Sheriff's office; when he was Mayor and Gov
ernor; when he wandered in the land o
Moriah and amid the mountains thereof
The strange thing is that the book is 81
wonderfully preserved. There is nothing
more beautiful than strong mans tende
reverence for the memory of his mother.
This has been called brilliant wit, bu
dull men, and the President is dull man
says the Tribune, fail to see anything
but the lowest form of insinuation; bu
still it is earnest praise.