The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-06-21
Mr.. Richards Compliments to the Standard

To the Editor OF THE HERALD.
Hon. Frank j. Cannon, editor OF the
Standard, seems considerably exercised
over the fact that accepted without first
obtaining his consent to do so) invitations
TO attend Democratic meetings in several
of our country wards; and especially is his
nxiety manifested because / accepted the
invitations at the close of meeting of the
board of directors of the church association
of the Weber stake, business meeting of
the bishops held immediately after the
county priestho meeting. This conduct
seems to be worrying my friend, who terms
L an ecclesiastical complexion in politics,
and very kindly suggests that it is dis
play of democratic autocracy" ION my
part, presume) which could have been
prevented by requesting the STANDARD to
publish our notices. ] have no doubt that
my friend feels that he is engaged in a
hopeless cause, and that all his friends
regardless of party-should help him
through. That he is engaged il such a
cause every sensible man knows. That he
has been very previous in predicting vic
tory for his party in any precinct in this
county is also well understood. He has,
however--so he says-prescribed his own
medicine, and now must take it like a man.
Ii he mas just discovered that he is pub
fishing a Republican paper in a Democratic
community, he is just finding out
what others have known for a long
time. If the STANDARD needs the
advertising of the Democratic party to fill
its columns, and treasury, we are under
no obligation to supply it And II my
friend imagines that he can dictate to the
Democratic party, or its committee, he
ought TO know by this time that he is max
ing mistake. The Standard, with all its
influence, has no terrors for the Demo
cratic committee, nor for myself. We have
been, and perhaps still are, as well known
Ia the community where the Standard cir
culates. as its editor. We have no fears
that such malicious and misleading attacks
as the one which appeared in his paper
few days since can injure the cause of
Democracy, and as for myself i feel no
alarm.
Instead, however, of rushing into print
in such wanton, uniustifable and sense
less way, either 70 attack the bishops re-
ferred to. or myself, for being such auto
Gratis and mixing the church with politics,
why did my friend not draw one more Of
of those famous pictures IN funeral lines
for which the New York Press and the
Standard are acquiring national reputa-
tons, and inform his readers how he has
been escorting one of the presidency OF the
Weber stake around our county, stumping
party; how he has advertised and
availed himself and the Republican
party, of the personal services and
influence of several prominent bishops, and
how he and his associates have industri-
ously sought to influence the people and
secure converts to the Republican party by
prcclaiming that prominent leaders Of the
Mormon church were staunch Republicans.
It would seem that the editor and his
party live in house constructed
of too thin glass for him TO commence
throwing stones, but if the Republican
party, as he suggests, chooses to rely
upon ecclesiastical methods of doing its
work, it is welcome to do its own business
in its own way" and we viii endeavor to
keep up with the procession. Yours very
truly, c. G. RICHARDS.
Ogden, June 20, 1891