The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-30
DESPlCABLE.

Mr.. GOODWIN, the Liberal candidate for
Congress, must be reduced to desperate
straits in his search for material with
which TO assail Mr.. GAME, when he can
find nothing more than the lying charge
that the Delegate is responsible fonthe
failure of the Salt Lake public building
bill. Mr.. GOODWIN must have lost his
head as well as his memory, everything
being on the side of Mr.. GAME in this mat
ter, Mr.. GooDwIN's own party and his per-
sonal friends being chargeable with the fail
ure of the bill. 1t is hardly worth while to
attempt to follow Mr.. GOODWIN in his Trib-
ane TRADE against the Delegate, as to-mor-
row he will reassert his lies just as if he
were not aware that everybody here who
knows anything of the facts, and every
body in Congress knows that Mr. GAME
did all that any man could have done for
the bill and that the failure vas due to
President HARRISON, who vetoed public
building bill for Texas and declared his in
tention of sitting down on others in order
that there might be more money for pen
sions; and to Speaker REED, who refused
to recognize any man who wanted
public building. Scores of similar
bills were defeated. Even Mr. SrRUBLE,
the pet of Mr.. GOODWIN and Of the radical
wing of the Utah Liberals, was defeated
for denomination largely because he could
not secure recognition from the speaker to
bring up a bill for government building
at Sioux City, in his district. He was so
indignant that he returned to Washington
and kicking out of the party traces, on the
floor of the House violently assalled MIR.
REED, openly charging him with unfair
ness and comparing hun, to his great dis
advantage, with the previous speaker. Mr.
CARLISLE, a Democrat. The Salt Lake
bill, owing to the efforts of Mr.. GAME, was
in a splendid position, and would have
PASSED had not the administration party
adopted the policy of killing all such bills.
But what can Mr.. GOODWIN be thinking
about in charging the failure of the bill to
Mr. GAME. We roclll distinctly, and so
will Mr.. GOODWIN, that last summer he
was charging in his paper That certain
prominent members of his own Liberal
party were laboring to defeat the bill. We
remember that he named some of those
Liberals, and among the list appeared the
name of Mr.. FRANK H. DYER, who is chair
man of Mr.. GooDwIN's executive campaign
committee and manager of the GooDwIN
hippodrome train which is now running
about the country. Mr.. DYER was severely
scored by Mr.. GOODWIN and was warned
that the Liberals and the people of Salt
Lake would bear in mind how ne was en-
gagged in conspiracy to defeat public
bill in order that he and associates might
make money out of a real estate deal. Mr..
GOODWIN and Mr.. DYER are now members
OF mutual admiration society, but the
copies of Mr.. GooDwIN's Tribune of last
March and April still exist We also re-
call that among the other prominent Lib
erals who were denounced for engaging
with Mr.. DYER in the conspiracy to defeat
the public building bill and put money into
their own pocket through the boom that
would be given to their real estate by con-
verting the Industrial Home into offices for
the federal officials, were x-Commissioner
WILLIAM MCKAY, ex- United States Mar
shall MICHAEL SHAUGHNEssY, United States
Marshal PARSONS, IsADoRE MORRIS, and
several others who are contributors to Mr.
GooDwIN's campaign fund, and have thus
made their peace with the gentleman while
he, in the absence of any good ground for
attack, tries to transfer their sins to the
head of Mr.. GAME.
We are inclined to think that the GER
tainty of being showed under on Tuesday
has caused MIR. GOODWIN to part with his
senses. Either this is true or he is meaner.
more contemplate and viler of heart than
we have hitherto regarded him. We prefer
TO charge his latest ma nifestation of despic-
able malice to the turning of his brain
rather than to the inherent baseness which
would lead him to willfully lie about an
opponent he cannot truthfully assail.