The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-19
THAT DEMOCRATIC" CALL q

democratic" mass convention for Salt
Lake County, signed by J. G. Royle as
chairman and A. L. Williams as secre
tary. What it is that these gentlemen
are respectively chairman and secretary
of nobody really knows.
They announce with a flourish O
trumpets that "Mormons, not beinl
Democrats" will not be allowed to par
ticipate in the said alleged Democrat,
convention.
They need not have taken so muci
trouble. know of no Mormons who
want to parti cipate in any convention
| which owes its existence to the call o
| men who dread censure from Repub-
l,can and pagan sheet m ore than they
do the indignity of respectable people
| or the just reproach of real Democrats
Whatever else may be said of Nor
tisans, it has never been truthfuily
| charged of them that they were as
body lacking in ordinary self.respect
individually, now and then. they have
shown lamentable want of that quality
by giving words of praise to those who
are friends for revenue only and hold
ing in good esteem men who are too
cowardly TO return good for good when
the lash of an organ which sees no
virtue in anything save what accords
with the personal and political de-
pravlty of its cohorts, is appraised.
The Mormons are not generally
Democrats to please any such. They
are, without exception so far as my
experience goes, Democrats for the
same reason that the Southerners are
Democrats-beoause the principles of
Democracy are broad enough and
liberal enough to accord with their
ideas of good government, while
the other organization is the en-
bodiment of false pretenses, narrow
mindedness, bigotry and hatred
qualities FULLY developed in such
Democrats as those who controlled
affairs at Ogden in May and are pre-
pairing to do likewise at Provo in DC.
tober
Messrs. Royle and Williams appear
to have all the qualities necessary to
the makeup of a frst-clsss Republi
can so we'll developed that it seems like
wasting their sweetness to figure in a
proceeding with any other name at
tached to it.
Perhaps. however, when they say
Mormons are not Democrats, they
mean such Democrats as they them
selves are. This would be the eternal
and everlasting truth; heaven be
praised that it is SO, and may it forever
remain SO.
Not for the world would 1
needlessly place my word against
that of the two gentlemen who
assume to speak by the card and in be-
half of the entire Democratic congrega-
ton of the United States. They are
beyond my latitude. and, as think,
their own also. The last call for a
by the National Committee
invited people of conservative ideas,
reference to past affiliations.
to join with them in the work of
Democratic ascendancy;
but it has been reserved for Utah to
produce two great and glowing patriots
whose especial province it is to improve
place a solemn and absolute discount
upon past, present and future affilia-
tions. Strange that headquarters
should be so ignorant! Wonderful
that they should not have heard of
the Republican organ here which
makes the week-kneed of every shade
of opinion dance to it discordant music,
and never experience the tremor occs-
stoned by the exercise of its majestic
and sweeping power!
Ordinarily, it is for 8 deliberative
body to pass upon the qualifications of
its own members. Ordinarily, Demo
Gratis do not receive and act upon in
from their enemies as to
what those qualifications are Ordih-
ariiy, party managers. like Napoleon,
what it is their adversaries |
want them to do ia order that they |
may do exactly the opposite. But or
binary or accepted rules do not obt ain |
among men who let II would wait upon
I would not, like the poor cat i the |
adage." They can decide upon the
qualifications Of members without as
sistance, and thus relieve the conven-
ton of the burden of attending to its
own legitimate affairs. It is a great day,
truly, for the Republicans and their
organ.
All this means that the branches of
the great national organizations in
Utah are, instead of being antagonistic
and antipodsl, divided only in name
that, while calling themselves Demo- |
Gratis and Republicans they are IN fact |
one and the same thing, wearing the |
name for no greater purpose and with
no higher conception of the duties i'm
posed thereby than is possessed by the |
average sheep herder who wears a ter
cent portrait of Hoosier Harrison in his |
button-hole. But that is illusory the |
parties do exist here and they do not |
fuse any more than do the nominees of |
the st. Louis and the Chicago conven-
tons. Neither are the straight out |
Democrats few in number or pl:- |
able in the spine, as are |
the limitations here and else |
where. There are enough of them |
in full accord with the gallant band |
who put our unConquerable chieftain !
and the grand old man in nomination |
last June, to hold a convention that is |
q convention-not an aggregation of |
fanatics whose souls are |
and whose resoluteness in |
front of an opponent is nal.
The chairman" and secretary" say |
over their SIGNATURES that Mormons |
are not Democrats. Over my sigma
ture gay that among my acquaint-
ances are one thousand Mormons who |
offer no excuse for being such and are
better Democrats than the callers OF