The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-16
GROWING tNDEpENDEsr.


Whatever may be the outcome of the
Idaho election, one good thing will re-
suit, namely: the assertion of their in
dependence of outside interference in
the matter of local politics by the press
and people of the Territory. Idaho
has been ruled from Salt Lake. Parties
have been ignored up there, and tickets
been made up in the sanctum OF Salt
Lake newspaper, which latter there
after has proceeded to say how the peo-
pie must vote and how the Idaho ed
ltors must write. The editor who re-
belled and undertook TO stand
by his party politics, was abused
like a pickpccket, and in most
instances he was soen silenced
and forced back into the ranks
of the subjugated. During this cam
paien, however, a good many of tue
newspapers have declared their indie
pendence Of the Salt Lake dictator, and
someo of them have been so courageous
in their assertion of freedom that they
cannot again submit to the lash which
has hitherto kept them in the traces.
The people, also, are asking if they
have not the brains necessary to man
age their local aSlfairs, and if it is abso-
iuteiy necessary for them to come to
this city for instruction aud direction
as to their political actions. Below we
print leading editorial in the C9ur
d'A&ene Sun, which speaks out plainly
ON the subject to which We have re-
femed. 1t is fair example :of how the
papers up that way are getting in the
way of talking to and about the self
appointeds5ess:
The Wallace Free Press has taken up the
cry of the Salt Lake Tribune that Mr. Haw
ley has made bargain with the Mormons
for their vote in the coming election. We
have already exposed the 'aesurdity OF the
Tribune scharge and shown that through
the efforts of Mr.. Hawley as United States
Attorney he sent seventy-eight polygamists
to the ipenitentiary at Boise, while not q
single one was sent to prison during the
term of Fred I. Dubois as United States
Marshal The Mormons are not unlike
other members of the human family. 1heil
religion does not teach, nor do they prac
tice. the humiliating part of the Christian
creed which says that If one side of the face
is smitten the other should also be turned to
the enemy. The Mormons have been con
sistently prosecuted by Mr. Hawley. and II
Isl the first actual prosecution they have been
subj 4cted to. They would not, if they had
right to, vote for Mr.. Hawley. This has
been shown by Mormon utterances and pub
locations. Mr.. Hawley is the last
man in Idaho they would vote for
But, why is the Salt Lake Tribune and
its satellites in Idaho classifying the situation
to ipjure Mr.. Hawley? SO far as can be
learned only one Mormon registered and he
withdrew his name by permission. Will
our people allow the Salt Lake Tribune
an intensely anti-Mormon sheet, blinded
with extreme partisanship, to dictate the poll
tics of Idaho and misrepresent the standing
of Mr.. Hawley? II has been national pol
icy to allow no foreign interference in ouI
domestic affairs. The same rule applies tc
the states and Territories. We can find nc
faultwlth the TTibuRe's criticism of our pol
itical affairs. but when it makes false asser
tons and charges against one candidate to
bolster'up another, it goes beyond the pale
of decency and fairness which the respect
able portion of no party can Submitto. The
South Idaho partisans who attempt to stab
Mr.. HaWley in the Tribune with anonymous
communications are the lowest breed OF
assassins, anda cause which needs thell
of the North. Outside dictation and inter.
Of Idaho.