The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-27
THE ENTERING WEDGE.
One Voters Views of the Ticket Put Up by the
Workingmen.

To the Editor of THE HERALD:
In common with other people hereabouts
who have no sympathy with political rings
or cliques, and desire only to see such men
nominated and elected as have shown them
selves fit for public offices by their personal
worth, l rejoice at the advent of a third
party which will allow us an independence
of action in the choice of official servants.
AS between the Peoples party and the
Liberal party we have had no choice but to
vote for which ever party came nearest to
our ideas of popular sovereignty, and
while the Peoples party candidates may or
may not have been chosen by the will of
the first president, they all belong to one
church, which is something can not vote
for, upon general principles, be it Catholic
Presbyterian or Methodist. The Liberal
party, elated by its success in carrying the
city election last February, has allowed it
self to be governed by that most in
tolerable tyranny of all desp otisms-a ring
composed of a favored few who ran
the last convention to suit themselves and
their friends. The honest workipgman
had 10 voice in that convention. 1t was
| young, briefess lawyers, and gen
teel iders from the precincts of
Hogle Brothers gilded palace. These men,
who have never done hard days work in
all their lives, made scramble for the
offices in the gift of the honest workingmen
whom these wine bibbers and men of
| pleasure expect to vote as they are bid
and ask no questions. l am glad to see that
the workingmen have asserted themselves
so far as to nominate ticket of their own.
They would have deserved to be condemned
to a life of slavery if they had not. In the
choice of public officials the laboring men
! have shown rare tact and more sagacity
than the Liberal party. Their ticket Is not
all composed of laboring men. Their nom
inees are representative of all classes in
1.-THE community, the workingmen, the
| learned professions and Young Utah for
whose votes both political parties are striv-
ing. All hail to the workingmen's ticket
1t is the entering wedge which will
break up both parties and amalgamate the
best elements III each.
Look at the men on both tickets and tel
me which of them are truly representative
men. Pray, who is Prof. G. E. Allen, the
leader of the Liberal ticket! A demagogue
who proved by his frantlc grasping of the
nomination for Office that his efforts during
the campaign were actuated by purely
selfish motives The office did not seek
him. In return for his constant and stale
history of How Worked the School Bill
Racket" repeated in one unvarying tuna
at each ward meeting where even his owl
friends were tempted to ring the chestnut
bell on him, he demanded an office within
the gift of the people," There is not much
originality about him. Then who can helI
comparing the laboring mems nominee fol
sheriff. a. j. Burt, with the Liberal nomi-
nee, Hank Barnes? What has Hanl
Barnes ever done for the deal
people that he should be put in the place O.
a man who is a terror to all evil-doers il
the county! A man, too, who has Travelled
hundreds of miles in quest of horse THE
and never given up until he has bagged hi
game. l, for one, would sleep with more
security under Andrew Burt as sheriff
than any bar-room lounger or bon uiuaIt o
them all. | need have no fear of watkins
up in the morning and finding my horses O.
cattle gone and mo trace of themn left, a
long as Mr.. Burt is sheriff a tried publ
servant should be kept in office as long a.
possible.
If there is any justice at all in politics
the dudes, genteel idlers and men who hav
enough means to make living on. a
named in the Liberal ticket, should be rele
gated to the rear, and those brave, patlen
men, who have toiled through summer
heat and winters cold to feed their wive
and children should be given rise in If
and he allowed better means of earning
livelihood. other things being equal, ant
that workingman must be utterly Oblivion
to his own interests who does not supper
his friends at the polls. H. c.. w.