The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-26
THE POLITICAL GAMBLERS.

The New York Tribune recently remarked
that the Republican party had drawn four
queens and would take the pot" The
paper quoted from is the leading authority
on its side in the country and therefore
represents what is claimed as the upright
and moral sentiment of the land. There
fore such words would shock some people
deeply and profoundly. THE HERALD is
not exactly posted as to the language used,
but is informed that it has reference to a
very dissolute habit among men which
amounts to gambling.
So the Republican party has drawn four
queens" has it? This means, of course,
the four new states. And it twill take the
pot" as we understand 1t, meaning the
stakes, or what therejwas in issue on the
result. 1t is scarcely necessary to say that
language was hardly ever more appro-
priateiy used. The career of that organi-
cation, from first to last, has been more or
less gambling game; and not a square
gambling game either but one in which
any kind of tactics or device We're accept
able, the aim sought to be accomplished
being to win, no matter by what tactics.
This is not a very desirable position for
respectable people to be placed in, but the
Republicans have placed themselves in it.
"Out of the fullness of the heart the
mouth speaketh." 1t is but natural there
fore, that a paper whose whole bent and in
clnIation are toward the party whose ten
denotes are revolutionary and monarchial
should itself exhibit some of the traits of
that class of people, who, as a matter of
business, place and keep themselves outside
the law in expressing its qualification. But
is it not somewhat astray, even taking that
into consideration Where are its four
queens! THE HERALD is tolerably well
posted on the fundamental rules OF arith-
metic and can only see three that have been
drawn by the Republican gamblers-the
two Dakotas and Washington. Perhaps
the New YORK 81 )per'' includes Montana;
if so he is playing a dangerous game of
bluff and would do well to quit it before he
encourages the infatuated players to go too
far and risk too much.
Still, the language Of the New York
Tribune is quite pertinent enough,
all things considered. The party which
that paper represents never has relied
on fair elections and proper returns and
never will. Its line of conduct is, win
properly if possible, but win. Just now its
reliance is on the size of its "pile;'' and
with the expectation of outbidding, in
other words "oversizingn the men on the
other side, it has rolled out pretty good
sized bar'l and is stacking up its contents
without regard to appearances or conse-
quences.
The Tribune will, we think, find itself
mistaken; so will the men who are acting
in accordance with its expressed wishes
and purposes in the territory to the north
of US. They should not suppose for mo-
ment, gamblers and desperadoes although
many of them are, that the Democrats are
q lot of shame faced and imbecile tricksters
who are content to sit idly by and let the
cowardly ruffians overrun them altogether.
If they cannot obtain justice through the
courts, they have other means open to
them. They can organize legislature of
their own, composed only of men who were |
duly and properly elected to that body, and |
invite the other fellows to come in and as
sist if they want to; but if the latter insist |
on putting up separate and therefore rev
dictionary body, it will then only be 4 |
question of which body the executive of |
the new state will recogniZe-a question, |
which, we take it, is already settled because |
of the fact that brave and stalwart Demo /
crat in the person of JOSEPH K. TooLE |
holds that important Office. He will rec
ognize the legislature which was duly and |
properly chosen, in other words the one
containing a Democratic majority, and its |
acts will be the only valid acts performed |
by color of legislative authority in Mon
tana. 1t will elect two Senators and they |
will receive the governors commission,
without which they cannot obtain seats
prina fdcie. Where then will the conspir-
ators and gamblers stand? Do they cherish
the hope that the Senate itself w i'll come
to their rescue and by applying the rule of
brute force exclude men chosen by the
majority and accept the upstairs and po-
litical shysters who come from the mi
nority9 1t would be in full accordance
with Republican procedure to do such a
thing, and yet we hardly believe that
they will dare to be so revolutionary in this
instance.
1t would be a rather undesirable spec
tacle for Montana to come into the union
on the same terms that Louisiana and other
southern states were forced to re enter it
that is, with Senators coming from two
and distinct commonwealth, as
by the different parties. And
vet she would have better chance than
her southern sisters had, for the reason
that when they returned the Republican
party was in full and all but undisputed
sway, and it used its power as rod of
iron, just as it instinctively will always
when it is possessed Of power. Now it is
different; the majority for that party in
either house of Congress is very narrow
indeed, and it dare not do all that it would
ike to. 1t saw the first tracings of the
writing on the wall from Indianapolis a
short time ago, it will receive some more
Indicators week after next, and it really
Toes not feel like destroying all of its
chances by going too far. :
TIE MAcADAMIzING of East Temple street E