The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-13
AGAIN OF The CONVENTION.

investigated, and the longer it is looked
at, the more does it assume the aspect
of disgraceful piece of usurpation,
fraud differing from that by means OF
which the Hayes conspirators stole the
Presidency and put it in their pockets
only III the matter of magnitude.
seems, in fact, that for the time being
those who pirated the organization
were even willing 10 join hands with
the common enemy in their frantic
efforts to overcome branch of the
party against which they have trained
their fires so long that they seem I'm
able to realize that time hath Its
changes as well as its revrnges. There
were two wings OF q common organiza
ton, one willing to bury the Ratchet
and make q united stand against any
and all hostile elements. the other
willing only TO make war upon the
other branch and stand In with all
other combinations to effect their pur-
pose. This they cid, as has already
been presented. There was at least
one, and perhaps there we're three or
four open and avowe1 Republicans
admitted TO a place which the irrecon-
cilables denied to actual Democrats;
and it Is certain that the
greater part of the rejoicing
over the exclusion Of the
latter, he pandemonium which &c
suited as each additional phase of the
conspirators' programme was I'M
folded, came from Republicans whose
Loyalty to their Organization was limited
only by their lack of Judgment, want OF
good taste and opposition to part of
Democracy when they could not oppose
itasa Whole. II iA6Fe ettdehce of the
fact that the n,aIcoAteats were acting
in perfect harmony with the Republic
can cIaaeurs in the hall at Ogden, as
we'll as the Republican horn-blowers
elsewhere, were wanting, the fact that
our always unesteemed morning CO.
temporary, the serviIe and knavish or
gan of that party in this part OF
the country, patted theconspirators on
the back and pronounced their work
we'll done. If it was well done in Re-
publican eyes, doesn't it follow as
natural sequence that the genuine Dem
ocrats are those who found and find
fault with it2
1t seems from what we have been
able to gather from responsible sources
that the infamy at Ogden neither began
nor ended with what is above stated
There was more or less by-play, COINS
to substan tiate the claim of those who
were expelled that bad faith, trickery
deception and downright lyinl
were resorted to IN ordel
that a disorderly clique nigh
speak in the name OF and for the genu
inc and respectable party whose nam'
they used in order to serve Republican
ism the better. In the decent conven
ton which was held after tn
other had adjourned, one of the speak
ers asserted that the infamY OF assum
ing that he and his associates were IN
able to take q test BIZ means OF which
their polit cal principles could be show
vas we'll illustrated in the fact that
suseestion was made by representative
of the stomach-achers before the conver
ton met for the prescribed delegates t
publicly agree to support reRularl
nominated Democratic ticket as agalns
INV and all others, and the repl
came unhestatingly, 1--WE will do 1t
YOU will do likewise. That, OF cours'
ended that negotiation. and the speake
made point by adding, You see, "
are able and willing to submit to test
which they cannot or will not subtle
themselves to, and yet they have tt
uuprincipied effrontery to say we al
not as good as they"
A statement II the effect that when
few of the rejected delegates were give
a hearing before the usurping credel
tails committee, they avowed their III
swerying fealty to the Peoples par
when il came to a contest in whi'
democracy was arrayed again
Il we are authorized to d
clare q useless and unbIushing falls
hood. 1t is of piece of the rest OF Il
work accomplished by the conspiratol
When the tactics of Iscariot would
longer avail, 1t seems they were n
slow in the matter of resorting to tho
Of Ananias. They accomplished the
purpose for the time being. AT
expense of responsibility, of honoras
conduct, of fri srdship. of true Demo
-acy. they accomplished a polite
rape which will not be forgot
or forgiven this year or ne
And that their stolen fruit is t
anp.es of the Dead Sea and v
turn to ashes u pom Il cir lips, is one
he reve le, already b ginning to u