The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-24
BULLDOZING WILL FAIL.

Judge POWERS may know how to manage
and direct the rabble in political cam
paign, but it is apparent that he takes {
wrong measurement of good many Liber
ais in this city. The tag, rag and bobtai
ticket which the ward conventions made
up is not as all satisfactory to the decent
element Of the party. On the contrary il
is extremely unsatisfactory, and it is
openly talked by not few that they will
scratch the Objectionable names, and sew
eral prominent Liberals have said they will
vote the Peoples ticket as a protest
against POWERS rule and as protection
for their property. The putting of clean
name or two on the ticket as nominees for
the general offices did uot purify the foul
aggregation, nor did it deceive the intelli-
gent men and property owners. They
realize that the council would be the ruling
power, the mayor being helpless servant,
doing only as he was bid. The most force
full and cleanest man in Christendom would
be powerless with such a council as has
been nominated, and if he We're forceful
and clean he would soon step down and out
from place where he would be merely a
fgurehead and an ugly oke at that
After the general convention the discon-
grows and becomes more widespread, some
whose loyalty to the Liberal party has
never been doubted, now letting it be
known that they will scratch the objection
able names even if they vote the ticket
Chairman POWERS is alarmed at the disaf-
lection, and at gathering of the gang on
Wednesday employed the bulldozing tactics
for which he has something of reputation
Among other things he said:
If there is a single man training in our midst
who hesltates to support the ticket let him rise
and show himself that he may be marched by
the Zouaves, the band or the drum corps into
the enemys ranks TO the tune of the Rogue'S
March. The man who refuses to stand by the
ticket should have his name engraved on the
south side of the Mormon temple for the benefit
of posterity.
There was time when that sort of
thing would have been successful here.
but we apprehend that the time has gone,
and forever, when blackguardism and
threats can force men into supporting that
which is distastefulto them. 1t wasn't so
very long when our morning contemporary
could crack the lash over the rank and file
Of the Liberals, and there would be
general and humble compliance with its
orders. 1t can snap and storm and threaten
now without alarming single manly
Liberal, for only the scrubs stand in awe of
it. The fellow POWERS will learn that he has
overreached the mark this time; that the
tactics Of the bulldozer will not be effective
with men who have property and reputa-
tions to protect A Liberal said to this
writer yesterday, Judge POWERS may
send around his Zouaves and drum corps
and escort me, for l will not vote the Lib
eral ticket, and on this occasion will vote
with the People in self-defense.n There
are others, and many of them, who are
thinking and talking in this strain, and on
election day they will defy POWERS and the
hoodlum gang to deter them from voting
for good and honest government. In plain
words there is no longer terror in the cpl
tibet of Jack Mormon