Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-02-17
THE POLICY OF REWARD.

THE nature Of causes is exhibite
by their results. This truism vii
bear an application to an inciden
that occurred on Saturday night.
To illustrate it is necessary to g,
some distance behind it. During
the progress of the recent election
campaign our esteemed contemporary
the Herald intimated that Judge
Powers, chairman of the "Liberal'i
central committee, was laboring for
financial reward, it being understood
that he was TO receive a stated sum
providing the opposition should gain
the election.
There are great many besides
our cotemporary who believe that
the amount of disinterestedness in
the political operations of Judge
Powers could be thrust into a per-
sons eye without drawing water Be
that as it may, be did not wish that
view to exist unopposed in the
earlier stage Of his operations. So,
like trIe and honest patriot, he de-
MED the soft Impeachment over his
own signature. He recoiled with
horror at the allegation. He was
laboring for the good of the cause |
that had crept into his expansive |
bosom and nestled snugly by the |
spot where his heart is supposed to |
be located. His manly breast |
throbbed with sorrow at the bare
intimation that he should for
pay recognize the running of /
r. G. w special trains to
the Colorado line to register
gangs Of workmen that they might
come in on free passes and vote for
the Liberals" In the election of
city which many Of them had never
seen. The idea that he would sup.
port the fraudulent swelling Of
"Liberal'' and the illegal diminu-
ton OF Peoples registration for a
monetary consideration worked on
the pure, spotless political soul of
the intrepid Michigander; 80 he
denied it.
The incident Of Saturday was
connected with banquet given
him by his political bedfellows at the
Walker House. One OF the features
of that mutual admiration circum-
stance was the presentation to !,
Judge Powers of a certified check
for $4,000 as a recognition of his
services to the "LiberaI'' party dur ,
ing the late campaign. OF course, !
recognition means payment, except /
In Plckwickian sense, just es re-ig- I
nation usually means notice TO get
out. {
In view Of his former denial of 1
working for money, one would
naturally have supposed that the !
recipient would have run his long
ilgits through his hair to give it
'rowsy and Indignant aspect upon
he summit Of his intellectual caput,
and rejected the reward with stale
corn, until his manly scruples
'ould be overcome by the pressing
demands Of admiring friends who L
would not take ''no" for an answer. o
Not much; he evidently did not $
propose to run any risk of such an Il
objection being taken in earnest. P
50 far as the report of the proceed a
Ings shows 20 the contrary, he g
simply, in a manner that was as
heroic as anything he had yet done, :,
ooeketed the check as his price. :
And why not? Some Of the IN
ierstrappers have been rewarded. c
We believe at great sacrifice TO a
he community, but in a different a
way. They have been given POSI- n
ions Of power in the municipality. F
t would have been much better IL a
hey also had been rewarded in a u
Jump in dollars aud cents, in place s
Il being inflicted like bOils upon the ~
ficial corpus OF the municipal body
polite. 7