The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-23

tenn, We're enabled to prevail over the
greatness of the people Of the country.
1t looks even now as if the victory, so
called, were to shortly return to the Re
publican party as the Dead seas fruit of
ashes. SuAKsPEARE causes RICHARD, Duke
of Gloster, to say that Crowns got by
blood must be with blood maintained, "
and in doing this he only stated
a truism which, modified somewhat, ex-
tends into politics and almost every other
condition of life. Places gained by cor
ruption, duplicity and deception must be
sustained by like means, if at all, and right
here is where snag No. against which the
dominant faction will run becomes mani
fest. The people are now better informed
than year ago; this means that they are
informed not only as to the great and
patriotic issue placed fully and squarely
before them by GROVER CLEVELAND, but
also that they are slowly but surely under
standing how and why it was that false
pretenses were presented to them, and
why the floating and purchasable vote of
the country was added to theirs in the day
of their supreme weakness.
The Republican party is now fully
chargeable for every law and every trasac-
ton of the government. For the Demo
Gratis to have carried the Presidency or
the House of Representatives last year
would have made it altogether differ
ent, as then, when bad or I'M
satisfactory legislation took place they
could have charged it upon that par
! ticular means of obstruction and thus re
lieved themselves of the responsibility.
They will now have nothing and nobody to
blame but themselves, and they no longer
have, as formerly, war issues to fall back
upon and help them out. It is the plainest
kind of case of wanting everything and
getting it, with the full and inevitable con-
sequence of having to account for all things
pursuant to it.
The Democrats ought to, and we believe
do, feel very happy and contented over the
situation. They can, since they have to,
get along without the speakcrship of the
House and the chairmanships of the COM
mittees. But the fact that they have to
get along without these desiderata is not in
any sense calamity and they know it, for
the reasons stated. They are just about as
near to majority as any party can be and
not have it, whereby they can effectually
block any really vicious or extremely parti-
san legislation, if not by actual strength, at
least by strategy; and whatever is careless,
or bad, or unnecessary, or improper, that
gets before the country, the Democracy
under any circumstances will be able to
say, Shake not thy CORY locks at me,
thou can'st not say twas l that did it,
A more advantageous negative position was
never held by political party in this
country
In order that the worst may come to the
worst, it would perhaps be a good thing if
THOMAS B. REED, of Maine, could be
elected speaker of the House. He is a
rabid and uncompromsing monometalist,
whereby he is distinctively and une-
quivocally at variance with the majority of
the people of the west, and is an infdel, o
condition Of belief which has kept Col r.
q. lNGEkSoLL in private life and which
alone, as things appear, prevented Judge
GRESHAM, one of the best and cleanest
men in the Republican party, from being
In HARRIsoN's place today. For such a
man as REED to occupy that important and
conspicuous place would be but to empha-
size all the conditions previously herein
enumerated, and besides, it would be the
means of turning all the states west of the
Missouri river border against the RepUbli-
can party contamination most devoutly
to be wished. Let the good work go on;
the setting sun of each day marks one less
for the continuance of that rule