The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-12-11
VAN WICK ANO PADDOCK.

Our ambitious friend. ex-senator Pad
dock, who has Just retired from the
Utah Commission. where he has been
drawing s. 600 year and travelling ex-
penses for doing nothing, and VINO Is so
DESTROYS Of getting 5000 year, with
mileage and Stationery allowance.
for representing Nebraska in the United
States Senate. has tackled one OF the
cleysrest politicians in the country in
the person of Van Wyck. Paddock
lacks much Of being a match for the
willy Van Wyck, who is a thorough
master Of the cunning and trickery Of
politics and the ways Of the politician.
tits the latter's seat that Paddock has a
longing for, but if he gets it it will be
because he employs s-ler and shrewder
men than himself to work in his behalf
Left to their TWO selves and the people
Paddock would stand about as much
chance Of being sent to the Sen
ate as Paddy Ryan does of keep
ing his feet before Mr.. John
L. Sullivan. Van Wyck is just enough
of demsgogue to capture the good
will of the people, by making them be-
eve be is their friend and is working
for their welfare, In Nebraska there
is popular cry against monopoly, and
Van WICK has posed as the champion
Of the people in denouncIng railway
corporations, land grants, and every
thing which savors of combined capital |
to Cypress or rob the people. In Con-
gress and out he is recognized as one Of
the loudest moRthed and mosteSrnest of |
men in chsmpion'nR popular rights and |
opposing corporation wrongs. He is |
probably sincere in what he does and |
says because this course pays better
than the other one. At the late popular
election, under the provision of the
State iSw which permits the people |
70 express their preference for United |
States Senator, majority of the voters |
cast their ballots for Van Wyck. |
This, in popular government, should
insure his return to the Senate, but the
voice of the people is not always needed /
b the politician, and the Senator must |
win IN q contest where the voters take
no part The people being with him is
rather against him, for the corporations
are said TO be against the people, and |
the corporations too often have things |
tseir own way. The Union Pacific is
recognized as an enemy TO Yanwyck, as
the latter is the avowed enemy to the
railway. 1.-THE company is as infuen-
tial in the poiiticssof the State as it is
said 20 be, the Senator will have to 20.
But his defeat will not necessarily elect |
Paddock, who is by no means the first |
choice Of majority of the Republican
members of the Legislature, whatever
may be the friendship for him of the
railroad. It is evident that q
powerful combination is working
against Van Wyck, and the PROBABLE
ties are against his reelection, but the
indlcations.sre not at all favorable 10
Paddeok's success. The latter's chances
depend largely upon the course taken
by the Democrats. In the past the
Democrats have helped Paddock, and
they msy-do so again. They cannot,
by any possibility elect one of them
selves, and it is not improbable that
they will prefer Paddock to a more OBJ
jectionable Republican who might be
chosen if they took no part in the con-
test.
The fight is lively one, and is daily
becoming mere interesting. So far as
Otah .iE concerned, it is a case of heads
or tails as to preference. Both Pad
dock aid Van Wyck pride themselves
on being knSTn as enemies to this
Territory.