The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-08
night-mare, that we make these well-meant

nightmare, that we make these well-meant
suggestions.
If the said friends of belligerent feelings
cherish within the recesses of their souls
the hope that the Peoples party is unable
to effect needed reforms from within, with
out having TO call upon the adversary to
help them, they are deceiving themselves
without sufficient cause, as the platform
recently adopted abundantly shows. And
if the Peoples managers once acquire in
formation that Tom, DICK or HARRY is un-
popular on the stump and his efforts result
in no benefit to the cause, it requires no
ghost from the grave to impart to them the
information that such persons should be
given a period of repose. 1t is not safe,
anyway to count unmatched chickens, and
this the Liberals are doing and have been
doing for great many weeks past,
In order to convince the said friends of
how utterly impartial THE HERALD is in
the matter of distributing good advice, as
well as occasionally dispensing more sub
stantial desiderata, we will state to them
that they would do well to begin looking
out for their own fences and o2thouses be
fore spending too much effort in pointing
out those in bad repair on the Peoples side
of the line. For the sake of the community
at large, we earnestly desire to see both
parties put up tickets to support which no
partisan on either side will have cause to
apologize for or protest against, and it is at
this early day easily foreseen that those
'outside the breastworks" are much more
reckless and inconsiderate than those on
the inside. If they carry out one feature
of what has been semi-officially announced
as their programme by issuing campaign
song book filled with dirty doggerel reflect
ing upon the religious views or social Gus
toms of the Mormons as class, it will not
matter much whom the latter have on the
stump or elsewhere; and if they go further
in the same direction and nominate for
chief magistrate of the city man who as a
grand juror and thus in the service of the
United States, used blackguard and brutal
language regarding President CLEVELAND,
it will not be necessary for the Peoples
party to make any canvass at all, as no self
respecting Democrat would vote for him
under any circumstances.
In the course of another month the po-
litical pot will begin to show symptoms of
a simmer, and perhaps another month after
that will find both parties in the field with
their leaders and their heutenants. The
stake to be fought for is large one, but
it is not all there is in the issue by great
deal. The power and spoils which come
of office-holding bring with them third
The people
are argus-eyed, and can detect the betrayal
of an accepted trust much more readily
than most of the modern self-seeking pat
riots give them credit for. Although this
chestnut begins to show signs of wrinkles,
we nevertheless venture to bring it forth
once more in order that it may serve use
full purpose-that of warning and guide
When the Liberals carried Ogden last
February they had an immense majority
and went into Office on the flood tide of the
will. Six months later the ma
iority had dwindled so per cent. and it is
an open secret that the parties there are
now about as nearly a tie as they
are here. If things keep on as
they have been going since Febru
airy, Liberal rule will become so
there that the People will re-
turn to power and remain in it until tt ",
through some supreme folly, again lose
their chances.
Ordinarily, it is a good thing for political
parties in a nation, a state or municipality
to be so nearly evenly balanced that the
change of few votes either way means
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votes go. 1t thus puts each other on its
very best Sunday behavior. The Peoples
party of Salt Lake city have unquestion-
ably shown more intelligent appreciation
of this situation than their opponents, the
former relying upon a candid presentation
of the status and willingness to abide by
the public's wishes in all public matters
while the latter are laying out their money
on tin horns, blazing banners, torch lights,
drums and Chinese tactics
in general 1t looks at this time as if the
campaign were to be fought with intellec
tual appeals to reason on one side and !
pyrotechnics and fanfaronade on the other |
1t will be a good thing all round when we
can dispense with merely local organiza- |
lOuS anu array Jul oClfSo WIN ellC udIlOudl
parties, each in accordance with his per-
5onal predictions, The happy time for
this great consummation is still in the
future. But pending its arrival, The |
is for the municipal and terri
torial party which comes nearest to Demo |
cracy in its broad, expressive sense-the |
party of honesty in politics, low taxes, |
popular sovereignty and the greatest good |
for the largest number In this it has the /
company and support of the overwhelming |
in the territory, a good majority |
N the county, and we believe sufficient |
majority in the CITY