The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-26
DANA AND THE SENAToRsHIP.

One of the inexplicable things of the day
is that some editors and few politicians
actually think that CHARLES A. DANA,
editor of the New York Sun, would like to
be United States Senator and that his
election is not merely possible but probable.
1t is beyond comprehension how any per-
son of intelligence can take any stock in
either of there propositions. The New
York Herald is the father of the sugges-
ton. Three or four weeks ago it advanced
the idea and in seeming earnestness ad-
vocated the. election of Mr. DANA. 1t will
be remembered that it was the Herald
which few years ago opened the cages in
the menagerie in Central Park, and turned
the wild animals loose upon the unsuspect-
ing and helpless men, women and children
OF the metropolis.
DANA is one of the worlds most brilliant
men. As an editor he has few living equals,
ana among the dead journalists not many
were his peers. We don't believe senator
ship could tempt him from the tripod
where he is more powerful and more in
huential than half the members of the up
per house Of Congress combined Mr. DANA
knows that whereas he is mighty now
and can WELD great power so long as his
oraln remains active and paralysis
strikes neither his hand nor his
tongue, in the Senate he would be dwarfed
II not buried out of sight, his one vote be-
ing small compensation for the thousands
he controls at the head of a great news
paper.
But suppose the EDITORS vanity should
destroy his judgment, and that desire for
Office should develop into an overpowering
ambition, the chances for his going to the
Senate would be no greater than they are
to-day, when he would reject the position
II it were rendered him. The New York
legislature has Democratic majority. and
OF course Democrat will be sent 10 the
Senate. This Is equivalent to saying that
MIR. DANA will not be chosen, for he is not a
Democrat in the modern definition of the
party. In the last three national contests
he has OPENLY opposed the Democratic
nominees, and been more vicious in his
assaults on the candidates than the Repub-
lcan papers thought of being. In the case
OF HANCOCK he was indecent, and in the
case OF CLEVELAND he has simply been the
vilest OF the vile. That Mr. CLEvELAED did
not carry New York two years ago, is largely
chargable to Mr. DANA and the sun. The
editor was rank traitor to the Democracy
and chuckled and grinned when the great
man and the great party were defeated
Mr.. Cleveland is today the idol of the
Democracy. Nine Democrats out of every
ten think of nobody else in connection with
the contest Of 1892; and yet the Sun almost
daily assails him in the most brutal manner
possible. Rather than GROVER CLEVELAND
should be returned to the White House.
Mr.. DANA would see the Democratic party
rent and destroyed and Republican mis-
rule permanently established.
Is it likely that the Democracy of New
York would, under the circumstances.
honor Mr.. DINA with the highest Office
within their gift and thus give notice to the
party at large that they had turned against
the foremost citizen of their state.
the man to whom Democrats every
where are looking up as the
one to lead them to victory! We think
no.. We cannot believe the Democrats in
the New York legislat IRE are a lot of
scoundrels or dolts. or that they would de-
iberately take course to bring defeat
upon the party.
The New York Herald may have its fun
guying the Sun editor and other journalists
may be duped into the belief that there is
something in the suggestion to send DANA
to the Senate; but the brilliant, if foxy,
old man will continue to say mean things
well and good things better in his sparkling
newspaper, while DAVID B. HILL or some
other Democrat will represent New
York in the United States Senate and
GROVER CLEVELAND will lead the Demo
cracy to victory in 1892.