The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-02
HIS TROUBLESOME RECORD.

HIS IhNObLESJME hEGOhD-
MIR. GOODWIN, if he never thought abo ut
ii before now realizes that unless man S
record is perfectly straight and defepsible
he ought not TO run for Office. Mr.. Coon
WIN has for years been delighting hotel
lobby and bar-room crowds with funny
stories and saying pleasant things about
dead people. His listeners have laughed
and the readers of his obituaries have felt
kindly towards him, the result being that
he had come to think that he was about the
most popular man in the country, that
everybody admired him and endorsed ell
he said and all he wrote. The poor man
was unfortunate in accepting the meaning
less plaudits of the fellows who enjoyed his
storytelling as the will of the community.
He wanted the nomination to Congress
because he really believed he was popular,
and didn't know but possibly he might be
elected. The nomination was given. and he
went into the campaign only to have his
mind disabused and to learn certain truths
which he should have known all the time.
One of the very first things that he learned
was that while he might be a favroite with
"A lew 1SllOhS hLO ISliSti sOOd oGOrI VIGIL
told. especially when it is seasoned with
artistically concocted beverage, he was
anything but a popular idol. He early
learned that there was wide difference
between the air of the Alta club rooms and
the free air of this territory. He was not
long in learning that however hearty the
laugh which was excited by the relation of
story picked up in a mining camp, that
laugh did not mean vote nor did it imply
an endorsement of his political principles
and personal sentiments. He didn't think
about it at the outset, but be thinks of il
now, that for ten years he has been a radi-
cal of radicals in his newspaper, devising
outrageous schemes for depressing and in
juring people, and advocating doctrines
which more than half the voters in the
United States and fully half of the mem
bers of his so-ealled party repudiate. Ii
has dawned upon him that while Eos-
ing as the leader of the Libelnls
and telling them they must be neiSlsr
r epublicans nor Democrats, he has all the
time been a most rabid Republican, blind in
his endorsement of every Republican meas
ure and uncompromising in his opposition
to everything brought forward by
Democrats. We don't believe that
it ever entered Mr.. GooDwIN's
head that his approval Of the infamous force
bill, which was carefully drawn for the
purpose of depriving Democrats of thei1
rights at the polls, would be recalled and
that he would be placed in the awkward
position of having to repudiate his own ut
terances, or antagonize considerable mum
Der of men upon whom he had innocently
and ignorantly counted as political friends
because they had not asserted their Demo.
crazy when he had Wanted his Republi
canism; yet he has learned that while be
and Democrats can be hail fellows in {
club room, Democrats cannot support hin
for Office.
1t was all right for him to demand the
Acknowledgement of men who had broker
no law and had shownby their lives thai
they were patriotic citizens and goot
men; 1t was all right, we say, for him tc
urge their disfranchisement so long as ht
expected nothing from them. but when hf
stands up and asks for votes he discover.
that he has made a record which now come.
up to prove him the rank enemy OF thu
RIGdb VI Tue people.
When Mr.. GOODWIN was assailing Gen
tiles who protested against the passage O
the disfranchisement bill, and chargin,
that they were dishonest in that they signed
the protests through fear of losing Nor
mon trade, he did not think of the Con
gressional nomination, and that the fair
minded non Mormons he was abusin,
would so soon have a chance to re-read hi
vicious articles aud then go to the polls ant
vote against him. He did not sense tn
fact that he was writing recor,
which would rise up to plague him.
We don't believe that if Mr. GooDwI,
had known that he would be candidat
for Office, and that his election depende
upon the votes of the young men of thi
territory, be would have industriously de
voted himself all these years to sayin
mean and cruel and slanderous thing
about the fathers and mothers of tn
young men. and thus forced the latter, the
being human, to despise him.
When Mr.. GoopwIN's hippodrome trail
halted at Tintic the other day, and Their
was manifest chilliness in the receptio
accorded the little company of campaigners
it probably for the first time dawned upo
the mind of the gentleman that not so man
months ago that they had forgotten it, h
mad written very savagely about goo
many of the Tintic miners. We are mis-
taken in the character of the men in tina
camp if they do not show at the polls o.
tuesday that they have good memories.
And thus it has gone along for ten years
Mr.. GOODWIN has been Jolly good fel
low'' socially, but has all the time bee
making record which now comes up I
plague him, and to make it impossible 70
hundreds Of men to vote for him VIII
would never have thought of 'sgoing back
on any other non-Mormon candidate. II
has alienated many Gentle Democrats an,
antagon1zed many others who are to-da
saying that If they vote at all it will be TO
JOHN T. CANE and not for the man VIII
has abused their party almost as shame
lessly as he has abused the Mormons, an,
who if he could have mis- way would max
it impossible for both Democrats and Nor
mons to vote in this republic