The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-01
THEIR BEST MEN.

In the course of dreary attempt to con-
vince sensible non Mormon that the
Mormon people are in some manner inferior
to the other people OF Utah, although ex-
ceiling the latter as a whole in the usual
conduct OF life, the Liberal organ berates a
correspondent thus:
He cannot realize that the Liberal party was
born, not for the purpose of obtaining offices,
but for the purpose Of contesting for the rights
which American citizens have in every state
and territory except Utah, the right Of free
speech, the right of a free press and the right
to protect the ballot, which is the only protec-
ton that the government of the United States
has, from hands that will cast it, not for the
best men, but as they are instructed by a
priestly power here
We have practical illustration of what
the Liberal party twas born for" in the
history of Salt Lake politics for the past
year. If the Liberal victory of year ago
has achieved single worthy Or meritor-
ious reform, if it has established or even
attempted to establish a single principle,
the people of this city have not dis
covered it.
That the Liberal party is "contesting
for the rights which American citizens
have in every state and territory except
Utah, is the most bare faced mendacity
ever uttered. The Liberal party has al
ready been instrumental in deprivlng the
people Of Utah of most of the rights of
self government, and is now trying to de-
prive many people of every right of citizen
ship
The Fright to protect the ballot" for
sooth! so that it shall remain in the hands
of Liberals only-the goody, goody people
who vote ''for the best men, the only peo-
pie in Utah eft to cast the sacred Ameri-
can BALLOT! The party whose members
NIL the iails and penitentiary, commit the
murders and burglaries, and occupy al
most the entire attention OF the courts
Out upon the bare-faced hypocrite who
tells the world that the party that fur
nishes nearly all the baser criminals of
Utah is the only one whose members are
fit to cast a ballot for the officers of the
local or general government
1.-The best men, in the Liberal party
look at 'em! The members of the city
council, the heads and subordinates of the
various departments, how good, yirtuous
and perfect they all seem to be- For the
Lbs, we are told, don't vote as they are
told TO vote, but they vote for the best
men. They don't vote as few hired liars
tell them TO, not they They pick out the
best, the very best and only the best men
from among that heterogeneous "party''
and vote for them solidly, blindly and
devotedly. As result what have WEI A
city governed by ''the best men," the pick
of the only elements in Utah that are fit to
cast ballot, as an example of goodness tc
the whole world. And here we have them
from Granny SCOTT down to dog-pelter
JOE, from the great detective" You've
TO the learned STAFFORD, from PEMBROKE
TO STANTON, from HYAMs to DUNNE,-what
a glorious constellation ''the best men" in
the Liberal party constituted
We have an infinite charity for men who
in voting the Liberal ticket thought they
were actually voting against church dicta-
tom, but for the poor fools that will now
believe their organs assertion that the
characteristic of the Liberal party is thai
its members vote for ''the best mem" WE
feel a derisive contempt, not unminglet
with some pity.
If these are 1.-The best men, IN the Liberia
party, what does that party think of itself
And what must be the thoughts Of those in
nocent dupes that contributed to reward
those of ''the best men,, for whom Their,
were no Offices? Do they hang their head,
to think how one fox smirked his thanks t,
them as he carried away the geese
piucked to the tune of $4,000!
There is no use in braying fool in tn,
mortar. Every Liberal in this city with
any gray matter inside his, Uranium will
blush to be reminded by his party pape
with such vulgar bluntness that the pres
ent city government is composed Of 18th,
best men" in his party; and that the lates
reason given for the Acknowledgement o
the Mormoas is that they, on the contrary
do not always vote for 1.-The best men,"