The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-03
THE LIBERAL PARADE AND THE CAM.
PAIGN.

the formal opening of the campaign on the
Liberal side. That they have taken time
by the forelock is not to be questioned.
They have certainly commenced early
enough, and if it be a fact that the early
bird catches the worm, they certainly
ought to capture worm; it is scarcely to
be believed that they will get anything else
of consequence, and there is surely none
who would envy them the advantage accru-
ing from the possession.of such an object.
| From this time on the contest will be
waged with considerable vigor. OF course
both sides will put forth their strongest
and most persistent efforts, but both sides
cannot win. IT is because both sides real
ize this that they realize the correlative
fact that the one that does not work will
lose, and that neither will pause for mo-
ment in the warmth of its work in the can
vass is well assured. So we may look for
ward to very lurid season, whose begin
ming, as previously set out, was last night,
and whose ending will be in February next
1t is scarcely worth while, in view of all
the precedents and customs among political
parties in this country, to decry this kind of
thing. 1t has became an established insti-
tuition in our midst, and if we would we
could not shake it off. AS on the Fourth of
July the juvenile element in our midst have
a kind of unwritten license to ex-
plode tirecrackers, shoot off toy can
non, send rockets skyward, beat
drums and generally endanger life, limb
and property, so on occasions like the pres
ent is 1t understood that the parties have a
right to disturb the peace and endanger
the welfare of mankind by the boisterous
reclamation of war, or, at least of peaceful
instruction. One side doing this makes
| it necessary for the other to follow suit,
for the reason previously set forth, that
whichever falters in the presentation of
| is case is the one that is fore doomed to
lose
We might wish it otherwise but it would
be case of wishing in vain. There is in
every community certain class of voters
| who can only be described as ''foaters,"
and these are the class who are most CON
siderably affected by chemical rather than
by intellectual pyrotechnics, by sounds
and signals amounting to nothing more
than tie qualification of certain sensuous
quality in preference to merely mental and
metaphysical demonstrations. The votes
of this class, it should be re-
membered, count as much and figure
as high as those of corresponding num-
Der of philosophers, reasoners and students.
This is very practical sort of government,
and it is quite right that it should be So
And when one side gets trap to catch the
''f1oaters," it will set them sure, unless the
other side should neutralize such efforts by
acting likwise, and then while it is in the
swim, it might as we'll do little in the
positive as in the negative line, and go one
step further by trying to capture the fugi-
tive vote itself. Two wrongs do Lot make
a right, but the neutralizing of a bad
quality or principle oftentimes brings US
near to what We ought to have and what
is nearest to substantial justice.
So let the campaign go on. Let the great
trumpets to the clouds foretell, respeaking
earthly thunder. Let the gallant legions
march and countermarch, arrayed and
panoplied as if for war; let the neighing
steed, the ar-piercing fife, the spirit-stir-
notes may impart inspiration to man be
duly enlisted and brought forth in behalf
of the great campaign. For behold we are
in for it and there is no other way of get
ing properly out of it.
Not only the noiser and Shower demon
STATIONS that have been named will be of
and pertaining closely to US for the several
months to come, but the people will be
talked to as never before. 1t is hardly to
be believed that any of them will be ush-
cred into eternity by reason of such pro-
cedure, but they viii receive through their
aural apparatus more.loquacious pabulum
than ever before within a corresponding
length of time. All of which will have to''go'
as it is part of the inevitable programme.
After the ides of February, there will be a
long and much-needed rest.
AS has been suggested in these columns
previously, the stakes are pretty high and
well worth playing heavily for. The fact
that the parties are as nearly as possible
equally divided is what will make the can
vass especially interesting, because by rea-
son of it neither side has any points to
throw away. Both are strictly on their
good behavior, and for either to put up a
bad ticket or espouse a principle whose
effect would be deleterious to
the community, would be the
certain defeat of that particular organiza-
ton. THE HERALD has already given to
the public the declarations upon which the
Peoples party stand, and they cannot be i'm
proved upon, as they embrace in small
compass the greatest good to the. largest
number. The Liberals may do as well by
doing the same thing, but if they attempt
to do better they will assuredly say too
much and fall wide of the mark by reas on
of so doing. 1t only, then, remains ques-
ton of candidates. There are good men in
both parties, but the Liberals have all
along shown disposition to keep their
best ones in allegiance, and trot out names
which bear the stamp of defeat from the
time they are nominated. For their own
sakes, and for the sake of having a
good government no matter how the strug-
gle may terminate, we hope that this time
they will reverse their former method of
procedure and give their partisans clean,
square, honest ticket to advocate and vote
for. Anything less than this would, if this
paper were utterly selfish and altogether
partial, be very gratifying to it, as such
course would mean inevitable defeat for
the Liberal party; in fact, we have no idea