The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-31

Gazette, tomorrow in an editorial on Hal
stead's rejection, signed by Richard Smith,
will say: ''Mr. Halstead's appointment as
minister to Germany was rejected not be
cause of his unfitness for the place, for that
question never was and never could be
raised. He was rejected because, as an
editor, he honestly criticized the method by
which men were elected to the United
States Senate"
THE ORIGIN OF THIS MATTER
was the election of Henry B. Payne. The
editorial then reviews the noted Payne case
and justifies the course taken by the Con
mercial Gazette at that time.
IT SAYS PLAINLY THAT THE DEFEAT
of the Payne investigation was due to the
fact that certain Republican Senators who
! have been elected by the same methods as
Payne" by fraud, were threatened that If
the latter should be investigated the matter
would not stop there. The editor con-
cludes: What the Commercial Gazette SAID
on the whele controversy was the truth. 1t
was truth when it was written, 1t IS truth
now. Perhaps it was roughly expressed,
but it was truth all the same. For this
Mr. Halstead was defeated, and for no
other reason. There was no pretense OF
objection to him on the grounds Of fitness
He was rejected by Senatorial frauds be
cause he had
| THE COURAGE OF HIS CONVICTIONS,
and was not afraid to tell the truth. The
result, therefore, cannot hurt him, but 1t IS
bound to hurt the guilty Senators. Per
haps, too, it might lead to line of thought,
or increase the force of a line Of thought,
! that will
ABOLISH THE UNITED STATES SENATE
altogether with its star-chamber proceed
! ings, or compel a change in its methods Of
election that will bring that body closer to
| the people and force its members outside
the money influence
The people would be startled to know
how many seats in the United States Sen
ate were bought with money, and how
many seats are therefore disgraced. This
| is business that cannot last; the people
viii not tolerate it. This kind Of corruption
must be wiped out"
| LOUISVILLE, KY, March Son Mr..
Halstead's rejection, Mr.. Watterson, in to-
morrow's Courier-Jom7tal will say in part:
| The rejection Of Mr.. Halstead carried with
| it, primarily, the warning from the Senate
of the United States to the press of the
country 10 look to its utterances when deal
| ing with that body, or any of its members.
Mr. Halstead's Offense to the Republicans
who voted against his nomination, as who
did not vote at all. lay in his
criticism on certainRepnbicanSen who
had refused to enter upon the investiga-
ton asked by the Republican legislature of
Ohio. in the election of Senator Payne.
The election of Senator Payne was nOtOri-
ously open to question. With the lights
now before US, no intelligent Democrat
doubts that it was from first to last
A MOST CORRUPT AFFAIR.
Why the investigation demanded by the
Republicans of Ohio should be denied by
any Republican Senator, cannot be eX
planned, even at this late hour. Mr. Hal
stead threw all the cumulative elements OF
his essentially cOmbative character into
the fight, and especially against the obdu-
rate Republican Senators From his party
standpoint he was entirely in the right
He did what any honest journalist would
have done under the circumstances.
He is punished by those Of his own party
whom he dared to call to account, for doing
his duty as a partisan journalist. The
Democrats of the Senate have assisted
these Republicans to punish him, and
thus a dual notice is served by both
parties in the Senate upon the journalists
of America to the effect that whenever a
Senator is publicly criticised, he will bide
his time to get his revenge by stabbing his
critic in the back and in the dark. Without
doubt, Democrats of the Senate, and partic-
ularly Democratic Senators from the south
ern states think they are getting even
with Mr.. HalStead for his abuse of the
south, but even if this were so, their
position would be at once inconsistent, and
injurious, with the fight over the conirma
ton of Lamar, and the ready confirmation of
many COnfederates to be foreign ministers
and many posts of honor.
IN OUR MIND
it lies not in our mouths to talk about
sectional reyenges. Such talk cannot fail
to do more execution at the breach than at
the muzzle, and in the long run must recoil
upon ourselves. 1t puts a stop to our pro
tests against prescription, and places a
powerful weapon in the hands of Our
enemies.
We think it would have been a far better |
policy, and at the same time a far nObler re |
venge, if Mr.. Halstead had owed his rescue |
in the house of his friends to those |
to whom he has so necessarily and so I'M
justly, but so openly, aSsailed as the incar
nation OF all that is intolerant and irrecon-
cilable. Every forgiving action done, and |
every kind and generous word spoken on |
occasions of trouble and trial by sectional |
political antagonists one to another, tends to
HEAL Up BREACHES BETWEEN THE PEOPLE
and to bind up the wounds Of war and to
make the union once more the union of
countrymen and brothers. We had hoped
that in the case of Ma. Halstead, which
offered striking opportunity for the dis
play of a large and liberal party spirit,
there would have been fonnd in the Senate,
Senators from the south big enough in
brain and heart to see this, and
brave enough to act upon it,
and we can only regret that in
this hope we have been disappointed. &We
are more so because Mr. Halstead is singu-
larly fitted for the position to which he was
named and is porportionately as honorable
and clean a man as he is politically a stub
born and implacable fighter.
We have it from very high author
rity that if the name of Governor
Foraker is not sent to the
Senate before its adjournment. the
governor will be dispatched to Germany
very soon thereafter. If this be So
Democrats of the Senate will have helped
the Republicans of that body to work their
private revenge on Mr.. Hallstead only to
hatred of the south double discounts
that of any other Republican in the
in our diplomatic service.
On that issue we have an in
preston that the gentlemen will find it
as little easy to satisfy their own con-
sciences as to explain themselves to public
opinion, which in the end is tolerably just
"A these matters and will not give its ape
prevail to the conversion of the Senate into
1 den of assassins.
Mexican Troops to Protect Garrett.
BALTIMORE, March 3O.-A special to the
american from San Antonio, Texas, says: