The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-06
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REBUkiNGiTHE BOSSES.

One OF the most glorious results of the
election is the revolt against the Liberal
ring rule in politics. 1t is not our quarrel
in particular, but we arc compelled to
observe things. The Liberal organization
has been turned into q machine for reward
ing individuals at the expense Of the
public. If the party ever had any princi-
pie it has been lost sight of by those who
have assumed the leadership, and the
bosses are governed solely by the incentive
of spoils. Men get themselves appointed
registrars as a stepping stone to nomina-
ton to lucrative Offices; the election
machinery is manipulated by these fellows
in their own personal interest, and the poor
dupes comprising the rank and file
are trained into performing slavish
service for the benefit of the rulers.
Primaries are managed and conventions
packed in the interest of the cunning in
dividuals who have no real claim upon the
party or the community and who are Lib
erals only for the spoils they see.
The election just held indicates some
thing of revolt against the ring rule 1t
tells that at least a few OF the men who
have been hunibugged and bulldozed are
getting their eyes open and that they are
not disposed to forever do the bidding of
the political adverturers who are Liberals
because they think there is in the party a
better opportunity for getting office and
cash than in any other. -..'''+'..
The late Liberal ticket was dictated and
made up by one man in defiance of
the decent element in the party. There
was an honest desire and commend
able effort on the part of some Liberals to
arrange not only clean and worthy ticket
but ticket made up of men who had a
greater claim upon the offices than was con
| tanned in the noise they made in campaigns
or the dirty tricks of which they had been
guilty in politics. For the best paid Office
to be filed it was the wish of the majority
that a certain gentleman with an unassail
able record be nominated, but he was
rudely brushed aside by the ring and per
son named for the place who would never
have been dreamed of in that connection had
he not been political manipulation of the
ring order. For another very important
Office the boss nominated a fellow who was
4 uO DCIICi W pCIIOIul buo uullcs
than clam is to fly to the moon. 1t was d
ring ticket through and through, fixed by
the boss who permitted the convention tc
approve his ring work
tbs true the rank and file swallowed the
medicine and under the lash fell into line,
but there was little enthusiasm in the cam.
paign, and in an undertone much grumb
ling has been heard. Not many had the
courage to come out manfully and
say what they talked privately, thai
they were tired of boss rule, anc
not many dared assert themselves at the
polls, but enough repudiated the more of
fensive of the ring nominations to give
telling rebuke 10 the manipulators VIII,
have acted as if the Liberal party wer,
their private property.
We cannot say what uwill follow this lit
tie rebuke, but we apprehend that the re
volt will grow and increase until it elthe
disrupts and destroys the party or com
pletely dethrons the bosses. The display O
courage by one man leads others to bt
brave.