The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-19
SEARCHING THE RECORDS.
THE HER AID,
Salt Lake City, Uta


minded one way or another that we
ought to be careful concerning the con-
yictions or even thoughts that we ex-
press. 1t is the easiest matter in the
world to say that we favor a particular
scheme or represent a special idea, be-
cause we don't expect at such times
that what we give vent to may at some
unlocked for stage of particular pro-
ceeding be brought forth as history, ana
not having saved all the details ana
contingent circumstances, such things
may be very hard to explain at the lat
ter period. The world is full OF such
instances, and yet their abundance does
not seem to fall short BY reason OF the
numerous pre- edents. On the contrary,
go nv.ry much as til ugh the num-
Der of victims had not with their pros
trate forms marked Iatn
for those who succee led them to
steer clear of. 1t will, of course, al
ways be so. Man viii always be man,
and woman woman, sutj*ct to
some few schanges which Gil
matte and periodic conditions
may bring about. but we venture the
assertion that nothing will ever destroy
that propensity in man which causes
him to say things at times unguard'd Oily
things that come before him later on,
when he has utterly forgotten them. 1t
is like a girl you once felt kindly
towards and often walked home with
from school and even kissed, calling on
YOU and reciting all sucn things after
you were married to somebody else, for
instance. The recollection may BE-
pleasant enough, or might be
under other circumstances; but
Just at present you would
rather the means by which TIL
renaissance was brought about had
BEEN callsd elsewhere previously.
Tnis theme is Being adopted because
1t is so suggestive, so apt, ard the Illus
trations descriptive of it are SO numsr-
Gus. And the jolly good fellows who
meet in conVention at Chicsgo to-day
have much more eceasiQn!te be mindful
of the aphoriism OF LAS you SOW so.shal
you reap" while the5 arc celebrating
upon the best man to nominate for
the empty honor of the Republi-
can candidate for the Presidency,
than any other similar b ,dy of men
have had occasion to do within recent
times. Let them PRESENT any principle
10! the effacing hand If time or the
onward march OF p ogress causes it 20
WIther as though IL were hesn-stalk l n
the midst of neglected desert entry;
and when they get on to their list OF
caudidst .s-heaven help them. like
children in the dark, they dare not face
the shades that gather round 1
them" The possible and prob
able men are numerous enough,
but all are tagged. For example
Blaine. well, he is we'll enough known
to need no further analysis; Depew,
railroad king and copperhead Democrat
In days agone; Gresham, know-nothing
and free-trader; Sherman, bloody-shirt
fanatic and silver-hater; HaWley, AL
lison. Harrison and Alger, much too
provincial and not enough anything
else; Bob. Lincoln is q son of his father
and has nothing else of great conse'
queuce to recommend him, and the
peoples opinion of that kind
of thing was expressed in plain
terms when young Grant was sat
down upon in New York in an un-
equivocal manner last November
Allison-welI, Allison, Hawley and
ingalls, occupy place altogether and
entirely their own. Nobody tries to
disturb them. Each is probably honest
and certainly able, bat the sane thing
en- be said of not less than soma thous-
and coun ry prosecuting attorneys in
the different States of the Union. And
as this is to be q campaign OF records
to great extent. how on
earth do the Republicans expect
to pull anybody through? Their only
hope, it would seem. lies in competi
tive examination, and the j they would
be hopelessly gone. All the vile SLAM
ders that could be heaped upon the
head of the tfen and now Democratic
nominee were poured out with lavish
hand, ami as they did not injure him
greatly then, it Is idle to expect them to
in,ure him at all now; they have only
his administration to fall back upon
for the materials for criticism,
and that is so satisfactory to
nearly all those who voted for him be-
fore and a great many who did not,
that it will hardly prove available
material.
All who believe in Democratic doc
trine, who prefer the ascendarcy of
Democratic principles and have faith 10
the election of the Democratic candi-
dates, will be reioic d to know that
the line of inspection. so far as it relates