The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-21
PEOPLES TICKET.
For Delegate to Congress,
JOHN T. GAME
DISCOVERING THE BLUNDER.

Some of the more prominent Liberals are
confessing before the campaign has fairly
opened, that the party has made mistake
in It's selection OF a candidate for Congress.
If these gentlemen had anything to do with
the nomination they were unwise in not
giving their common sense chance before
it was too late for that sense to be service
able. At the time of the nomination they
did not reflect beyond the fact that
the candidate was a ''iolly good fellow"
who could hold up his end in a crowd of
story tellers and make himself genial
socially. Now that the nomination has
been made and cannot be revoked thought
full Liberals are discovering the blunder
They are looking over record and are
discovering what they knew all
the time but had for the moment
neglected to keep in mind, that their
man, during all the years that he has re-
sided in Utah, has industriously devoted
himself to the task of antagonizing the
very men whose votes elect the Congress
man. 1t has been his special delight to
abuse and insult the class making up fully
four fifths of the community. The fathers
and mothers of the young voters -who are
to-day III the actual majority have been
the objects Of his shameless assaults. He
has bIackguarded noble men and pure
women, for no other reason than that they
would not conform their religious belief to
his standard. Naturally the sons of these
parents resent the insults hurled at those
they love and respect. 1t is not likely that
any Of them will vote to honor the man who
has daily for ten years past denounced
their fathers and mothers.
The Liberals of intelligence are also just
now realizing as they never did before that
their candidate has labored industriously
to bring absolute, actual Acknowledgement
upon the people, depriving them of the re-
naming vestiges of American citizenship.
The burden of his writings fo- years has
been that the great majority of this COM
munity should be denied the privilege of
the ballot box, not because of any crime
they had committed, not because they had
broken law, for they had committed no
offense against the statute; but because
they believed in religious doctrines which
differed somewhat from those of the church
In which he was reared These intelligent
LlOGIdlS 4OW SCG JuC Va men
to vote for man who says they are I'm
worthy the ballot and should be legislated
into aliens.
When the nomination was made there
were Liberals who had not reflected
upon the enormity Of the scheme ad
vocated by the candidate for practically
DISTINGUISHING every man in the territory
sbolishing elections and giving to the gov
ernor the power to name all the officials not
appointed by the President of the United
States While no Mormon, nor any self
respecting son of Mormon parents, could by
any means be induced to vote for the can
didate, there are good many Liberals who
are even more earnestly opposed than are
the Mormons to the monstrous scheme pro-
posed by the governor and championed by
the Liberal nominee to make all offices ap
pointive.
Members Of the Liberal party who have
heretofore been active are confessing the
blunder that has been made in the nomina
ton, and are saying that any one of hun
dred men in the party would have
polled more votes than the candidate
can possibly get. They are saying it was
mistake to take up man who had not only
put himself beyond the hope of winning 6
single vote from the opposition, but had of.
Tended and antagonized a considerable pro.
portion of his own party by his lndefensi
BILE radicalism his un-American PROPOSE
tons and his scheming to be boss These
Liberals, however, repent when it is tor
late They must lie on the bed which the,
helped to make.