The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-10-27

entitled 10 the designation of an ex-
perimenter. Strange as this may seem
in the light of the charges made against
it of being tied up in and in
extricabIe from old-time principles
and policies, it is nevertheless to-
day the only exponent OF anything
recent that has been brought forward in
connection with party conduct during
the two decades last past; and it gener-
ally goes up or comes down because in
either case its efforts are received for
what they are worth. The country
has about arrived at the conclusion that
an old thing skillfully worked, is better
than ever so many new ones bungled.
Hence the success of Sherman; hence,
also, the failure of Cleveland.
In Utah, where politics is an uncer
tain quantity, we can have our official
novelties as well as the communities
elsewhere. They do not gain such
celebrity abroad, because of merely To-
cal application and relating more
to the judicial than the political depart
ment of public affairs. The judiciary
here conduct things to suit themselves,
and as they do not depend upon the
people for support or ratification, but
upon few men two thousand or more |
miles away, they have SO far managed
10 have their good and bad work alike
, 'inched. The administration delight
n novelties, apparently; and the more
novel the proceedings of our chief jur
SITS, the more endeared to the President
nd his Cabinet hey seem to become.
Gauging things by the presents stand
lrd of success, we feel disposed to pro-
lounce Judge Zane an ADLER politician
han John Sherman. and Judge Powers
long way ahead of President Cleve-
and ane dug up the remnants
f an issue into which his la
lented predecessor Mexican sought to
reathe the breath of life, but failed;
be present Judge has emboweled, earn
ted, sanguified and pulsated the life
,ss cadaTer, and made it for the pres
Mt occasion a thing of our day. Sher ,
ian had creation which was dying !
rely, but not quite dead, to work &
it'll, and has merely prolonged its {
Iistence Tor a while; Zane went to $
ork on stiff and limbered it I
to life. Then We come to Powers: [
e did not have a civil service ghost
materialize, but by diligent rum
aging unearthed better thing. The
lppy thought occurred to him all at
Ice that as he was the first Democrat
Judge Utah had had for a quarter of
he had position as fruitful
Opportunities as it was conspicuous
fore the public. He could make
appointments, cause no removals
d do nothing in his sphere which had
been done before; but he was tar
for the eyes of part of the world
least-like the man who appointed
n-and in this condition must not
rely be an official, but, as Nasty
=, do suthin startlin' in that line"
ID then came to him, like an inspira-
n as it were, the doing of something
npared with which the record of the
ief Justice (who is a Republican,
uld assume an oyster-like sliminess,
aspect; he could see him
! go few better. And he did. He
t yet. The probabilities are that
ige Zane occasionally looks at the
rk being performed by his Demo-
tic associate and says in his dis
We can do pretty well in
matter of making q stable out OF
rn-Out horseshoe; but if you want
constructed out of
pet-tack, you will have to fall back
Democratic principles"
les, America is essentially nation
politicians, and the length and
adth of their capabilities in an emer-
cy can only be measured by their :,
sciences.