The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-18
ONE DISAPPOINTED.
A Democrat Who COnfesses that BE
Expected a Different Result.

THE smoke of the battle has CLEARED
away" Since l first used this sentence
a week or more ago, it has done yeo-
man service all along the line,
and its success in the field of
rhetoric and literature has been SO
marked that l feel justified in showing
it before the public once more.
Well, the smoke having got out of
the way, we can discuss what is left
behind with greater certainty. even if
the satisfaction afforded be less. The
Republican press, true to its first and
imperishable instincts, made haste to
announce with glazing headlines that
it was at last the solid South against
the solid North, and some of them are
sticking to it yet. Well, let them stick.
They have won great victory, and as it
is something that they have not done
before for along time and are not going
to do again, let them enjoy it fully.
Let them parade effigies of the Presl-
dent around the streets, with Lis eye in
mourning; let them display collins
with his name on them; let
them engage in unstinted rlfaldry, using
his name aud even his wife's in connec-
ton with low-lived Jokes and jeers such
as only the average Republican mind
can conceive of, and have their ally, the
Associated Press, send forth word stimuli
taneously that mo marks of dIsrespect
to the President we're exhibited" We
looked for this. Without some first class
lying, the party and the ally (Which
should be spelled all-lie) would not be
comfortable, much less happy; and, as
was suggested before, don't, deprive
them OIL their happiness. ~.
expect there is not Republican in
existence, from satan down, but whose
vacant place where heart ought to be
swells with throbbing palpatations at
the rate of sixty palps per minute over
the fact that the majority of the Ameri-
can people were not educated up to the |
standard OF patriotism occupied by the |
President OF the United States at the |
time the election occurred, and who |
him overheard. It's a |
fair guess that there is not a bar
room loafer in the country but
has been looking longingly for
the. election of Harrison as q |
protection from contact with European
pauper labor, nor gutter snipe, con-
t1rmed druokard or lazy lout in the
land, but what has joined in with the
remainder of the party, carried torches
and all but torn out the crisp and
crumbling tissues of his throat-lining
In vile shouts at the success of the
Hoosier. protection for American
labor" is great boon for those beings
who wouldn't do days work at any
price; 1.-The Republican party don't
want free whisky" sounds well coming
from lips that would rather be
by one "treat" than by half
a dozen drinks honestly paid for; and
home markets for American products
is splendid arrangement for those |
who never have anything to sell. This |
is the element that has helped to knife |
to pull the giant from his |
pedestal, just as during the reign of |
the Commune in Paris in 1871 the grand |
edi6ces and stately towers which con- |
to making it the central figure |
Of the globe, were overturned and
crushed into minute fragments by the
ragged rable. Truly, history repeats
itself; even in fiction we find parallel
CULVER was pinioned by pigmies.
The undersigned is perhaps the only
Democrat in the country who didn't
expect something of the kind. Twas
bitterly disappointed at the
l had placed my estimate of
he intelligence, patriotism and dis
eliminating justice of the great body Of
he American people too high. PROBES
ional politicians and other rascals tell
hem that tariff is not tax, although
exacts from them of their substance
nd gives nothing in return, and they
lite like starved bass; they are told
hat protective" duty on wool which
alses the price of n snufactured arti-
les from Otto IS per cent. is benefit
them because it enables the few
heep owners scattered throughout
ne country to sell their feeces for
lore than they are worth--and the
mpletons swallow it, hook and all;
ley are told that the most upright
nd impartial President of the country
yer. had is a scrub because he DIS
enses with several assistant private
cretaries and does his work himself:
lat he is an enemy to the soldier be-
luse lie will not sign bills to pension
men who never smelt powder, and
hose physical disabilities were in
lrred in the field of Venus instead of
lat of Mars, that he abuses his wife. I
lat he drinks to excess. and so on
ot meaning any disrespect, of Counsel, !
Id the poor, misguided innocents take
In with as much aVidity as country 2