The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-25
LEARNING BY DEGREES.

Weapprehend that our esteemed contem
porary, the San Francisco Bulletin, is not
as familiar with the local Liberal senti-
ment and ambition as its deep interest of
the past few months in the success of the
party would indicate. Few papers outside
of Utah had more to say about US during
the late campaign than the Bulletin, and
none was louder in its praise of the Liber-
ais and denunciation of the People. The
election being over our contemporary re-
joiced at the result, but cautioned the vic
tors against excuses, reminding them that
their position was now reversed, that from
cised, telling them that they must
show by their actions that they
were better than those they had deposed,
and in that way winning the popular
favor that would enable them to retain
what they had gained. 1t was good advice
that the Bulletin gave but there was big
streak of apprehensiveness in it, sugges-
tive that perhaps the overthrow of the con-
sentative, trustworthy government might
not be the very best thing that could have
happened for the city.
NON CO1lCo IlC DWttttUt Will tl1S Sul-
torial paragraph which is further intima-
ton that our contemporary is not entirely
satisfied with the work that it was so
clamrous all last fall and during the winter
to have done:
aJudge ZANE, of the Utah supreme court,
has decided that six of the Mormon can
didates in the recent municipal election at
Salt Lake were elected, on the ground that
the election was by precincts, in some of
which the Mormons had majority The
Gentle council last night admitted all the
Gentle contestants, ignoring the Mormon
demands and Judge ZANE's decision
Judge ZANE's record in Utah will acquit
him of any catering to Mormonism. His
decision is probably based upon the law
and the facts. The Gentiles, with their
strong majority in the council and with all
the city offices, can better afford to seat
the Mormon contestants than to begin their
administration by ignoring the law.'
The Bulletin is not familiar with the man
ner in which the late electio was carried.
1t is not acquainted with the methods en-
ployed, nor does it know how desperate and
defiant the Liberal managers were If it
knew all the facts it would not for a mo-
ment think it probable that the party
would give up anything which could be
held onto by the ignoring of the law" A
party which goes two hundred miles for
voters, and which exercises authority arbi-
trarily, striking from the registration list
without hearing the names of opposition
voters, is not likely to let the little matter
of law or a judicial decision stand in the
way OF taking all the offices in sight.
Mormons and Gentiles alike agree
that the supreme court ruling some
weeks ago that the new general incorpora-
ton act must apply to the late election
being good law, the voting should have
been by precincts for the councilmen.
Even the chairman of the Liberal com
mittee announced that in the event of the
failure of his party to carry the whole city
he would claim the councilmen in those
precincts in which the Liberals cast a ma.
jority of the votes. This is simply what
the People have done and what the CHIEF
justice has ruled that the law sustained
them in doing; but the six councilmer
elected have not got their seats, and who
is there that believes they will get them il
it shall be possible to keep them out? 1t is
not doubted that if the situation had beer
reversed and six Liberal and nine Peoples
candidates had been elected the former
would had their places before this, or there
would have gone abroad loud cry that
the Mormons were in open revolt, defying
the authority of the election commission
and the federal courts.
If the San Francisco Bulletin is disposed
to be fair, and will watch events in Utah a
little more closely than it has done, it.
opinion of the Liberal party will be les.
exalted than it has been