The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-04-05
President Cleveland's Slew,
but Sure Process.
-4.RANCOR" SMITHS CHANCES
Lightly weight Boreman-Giddy Kitty
The Law of Retribution-The
Utah Place Hunters.
WASHINGTON, March 10, 1885

"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.'
A poet of notoriety, or renown, if not
popularity, is charged with having per
oetrated this line. He must have been
Drophetic when he wrote it. for there is
net lingering doubt that in the ex-
tended vision of the seer, his eye must
have dropped on Democratic ascend
-a1cy after twenty -four years of weary
waiting and anxious seeking for office,
where there was a clamor for place and
where the chief magistrate was particu-
Eyarly inclined to let the waiting "wait
still" 1t Is very lent that Mr..
Cleveland proposes To make the office
hunt the man, and has very little affec-
zion for those who hunt the Office.
Every day seems to develop some new
and unexpected trait of his character,
and the development is anything but
satisfactory to the professional politi-
clan. There may be very large grain
of comfort in the Presidents course, to
the pure OF soul and loyal of spirit in
Utah; not comfort derived from con-
scious merit, but felt because of the
disposition to take plenty of time which
Mr. Cleveland has already manifested.
Should this continue it will be long
time before any changes are made in
Utah; as lightning is no respecter of
persons it will hit the pure statesman
and the patriot it Utah who gets 81, 600
a year for loaiing about saloons. l see
that General Nathan Kimball, the
modern jaw bone hero, has been let out
by Secretary Manning's recent order
ttTniRg loose large number OF special
;agenEs upon suffering community
and stopping some pap as conse-
rquence.
No nomination has yet been made for
Associate Justice for Utah to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of
Judge P. H. Emerson. So far as can be
-aseertained the only active applicant for
the position is one Rancor Smith, of
Ogden. Judging by the course of
President Cleveland so far. if the peo-
pie want to defeat Rancor they should
turn in and endorse him as strongly as
possible. Strong endorsements, SO far.
have secured the position desired for
persons who had no endorsements
whatever, at least none of a public
nature. However, the peoplesof Utah
might fare worse than getting Rancor
Smith, on the same principle that ne
opposition was made to the appoint
.1nent of that aggregation of bigotry
and idiocy which has been labeled
Jacob S. Boreman. 1t was known that
bigotry and prejudice we're personified
in him; it was known also that he was
no lawyer, and his nomination could
nave been defeated on this ground.
The fact, however, that he was no
lawyer and that he was the slave of
insane passion and prejudice saved
him, as whatever his ruling might be,
q reversal in higher court was almost
"a dead certainty; while, had he been a
lawyer he would not be such fool, and
his rulings might have had more seri-
Gus and probably more permanent
effect. Smith and Foreman are twin
brothers in their idiotic prejudice and
neither is, never has been, and never
will be a lawyer; HENCE the people
by the way talking of Foreman,
had long talk with him while he was
here. hanging around. anxiously wait
ang for his confirmation. He said he
did not think his nomination would be
opposed, because the incoming of a new
administration would render his con-
tinuance in Office for any great length
of time unlikely He deprecated the
2 pelicy pursued by the Tribune stating
? that the lies it frequently daily, be-
lieve was the word-uttered in discuss
3 ing the Mormon question, were calcu-
lated to in5ure the cause. He believed
in wise, judiciouS and liberal policy,
such as would invite the cooperation
and sympathy of those disposed to be !
fair and liberal on the other side. He
did not, he declared, believe in force
Moral suasion was the only means by
which any change could possibly be
wrought in the Mormon problem. The
result of a conversation | had with
e. Judge Foreman in the lobby of the
Senate, which lasted for an hour and
Hlalf, was to leave the impression with
bRe that genuine spring day or a suck |
ing dove was not a circumstance as to
,nildness compared with Jacob S. Bore +!
pnan, then ex-justice and ex-anti-Mor |
NEON Methodist Mission JuriSt. If /
hadn't known the nature of the beast, |
| right have been deceived, but | have
seem tbs same disease developed so
often in Observation-Disclosures that have
come to look upon speedy recovery as 8
fearful certainty.
The National Republicans has changed
hands and its new management started
out by defining the policy of the
new administration, and among other
things to be accomplished was the a..
utilization of Mormons. The Post. of
this morning, d Democratic organ, takes
up the cudgels in the polygamy qnes-
ton and defends the Democratic par =
from the charges of Republican paper
which alleges that the Democrats are
responsible for the growth of the Nor
mons; and repudiates the idea that
1.-The MormonS look upon the occasion
of the Democrats TO power as a per-
sonal victory The Post says: The
responsibility clearly rests with those
who. having had control OF the govern
Enent for twenty-five years, have lacked
the courage, the wisdom, or the states
,alsnship 20 grapple successfully with !
she issue The Mormons have been let !
alone so long, or interfered with from !
ltinle to time so clumsily, or gingerly, it !
is no wonder they seek still further ex- /
tension OF a hierarchy which boasts an |
apparent impregnability 10 assault; but |
'they certainly receive no encourage
snent from the new Democratic Presi- |
dent" And SO II goes, each fellow |
planes the other. because an honest, I
industrious, thrifty and frugal peo
pie who have been adding to the wealth |
nj 2 nafi0n and doing more IN dnveiOn |