The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-27
A TOTTERING CAUSE
Liberalism in Utah and Repub-
licanism at Large.
THE DEATH SENTENCE SOUNDED
Cleveland Will Be Nominated and Sweep
the Country for Democracy Against
Grandfather Hat"

Troy, N. Y, Dec. %, 1901 Special cor
~respondence of The HERALD. I'VE are
having another season of autumn pro-
longed until the holidays. Not an inch OF
snow has yet fallen in this section, and the
Republicans attribute it to the redhot can
Vass the Democrats made for the Flower
that will bloom IN the capitol at Albany
when Governor-Senator Hill lets go his
grip.
In our state election this fall we whipped
the Republicans all along the line, as YOU
perhaps are somewhat aware of. This
county ave fifteen hundred majority for
the Democratic candidate for sheriff-a
cousin of my own, by the way-who three
years ago was defeated by two hundred
for the same office. This indicates
THE Sol OF FIGHT WE MADE
Tor tariff reform and reduction of taxation.
Ihls county gave Blaine 345 majority III
1854 and Harrison 300 majority in 1888. We
intend and expect to give Cleveland 1000
majority in 1892. Ali the signs in this
state point the same way.
AT the opening of the campaign for
Flower it looked as if Fassett would win.
at the critical point Grover Cleveland
spoke and the tide turned and overwhelmed
the Republican tiger-hunter. This result
placed the Cleveland star so far in the
ascendant that no other name is thought of
In the ranks of the true-blue Democracy.
Such hybrids as the New York Sun and
the New York Herald continue to grope
abo ut blindly for
ANYONE TO BEAT CLEVELAND,
but they grope in vain. AS State Treas
urer Danforth, crowned with the ~laurels of
victory remarked before the big Tammany
glorlhcation meeting. just after election,
the campaign of 1891 in this state was the
fo%rerunner of that of 1892, when Grover
Clsyeland will be the standard bearer of
the Democracy of the nation" 1t means
that there will be no strife in this state be-
tween Hit and Cleveland, and it means the
death and burial of My grandfather's
hat" New York, New Jersey, Connecti-
cut and Massachusetts are all for
Cleveland and he will be pre-
sented to the national convention
by the Democracy of New York without a
dissenting voice. l make no claim to being
either a prophet or the son of a prophet,
but l am no tenderfoot, as
PAT LANNAN's s%CRIBBLERs NOW CONFESS.
and in this statement 1 merely give you
the trend of public sentiment in Troy and
Hooi eouhty, WHICH las just showed
the course OF the Cleveland wave by its
change of front from 800 Republican to
over fifteen hundred Democratic.
Mckinley says we are having too much
tariff agitation, and so says every good Re-
publican you meet. They expected the
Blaine reciprocity poultice would draw out
the Inflammation, but it only increases the
demand Tor more of the same sort of pro-
lection.
If reciprocity with Cuba and South
America Is desirable, give US reciprocity
with the world is the cry. eff DR.. Biaine's
prescription is good in homeopathic doses
why not try a little allopathic treatment?''
Blaine long since toresaw
THE CLEVELAND STAR ADVANCING
to the zenith in the political heaven and
his nearest friends now admit that the
effort to put it under an eclipse is futile.
NO longer ago than last September one of
his Warmest social intimateS in New York
said to me, Cleveland is the man. He can
not be crushed. If Blaine, even, the idol
OF his party, would consent to be the Re-
publican candidate he would be beaten,
and with Harrison in the field
the Democrats will ave a walk-over. AS
Ingalls, remarked, before his demise: 81
have no more i'll against Cleveland than
| have against the yellow fever or the great
March blizzard" so now feel all the Repub.
lcans IN this section, but they are very
CAREFUL TO BE vAcc1NATED
and lay in all needed supplies now while they
have tue opportunity, for they know how
clean Will be The sweep next November
when the Cleveland blizzard or yellow fever
is approaching, with united forces and
triumphant ranks. The Democracy of this
state ask nothing better than to see Nc
hlniey nominated against Cleveland
IN 1892, when, if they do not give
the latter $4,000 majority in the
state they Will make it at least as large as
they have just given Flower. The stay-at-
home Republicans are all opposed 10 Nc
klnleylsm. In my own election district
the Republicans number over three hun
dred, but the vote of their party in Novem-
Der was only 1874 for Fassett, the great
tiger hunter. Nearly half of them stayed
at home. Many of them will turn out for
a presidential election, but they will vote
for Cleveland as against Blaine, Harrison
or Mckinley. No other Democratic candi-
cate can carry Rensselaer, county.
wITHoUT CLEVELAND,
it will fall back to the Garfield or Harri-
son majority. And this straw indi-
Gates the direction of the wind
throughout the state. Field-Marshal
Murat Halstead to the contrary
Notwithstanding. He who counts on
d~issenslons here counts in
vain. The eagle of victory is in the air
the sweep of his wings made a vacuum in
the outlets of the tiger hunters here in
November, and in 1892 they will feel the
keen cut of his talons as he swoops down
upon them with a shrek that will curdle
their blood, while the Marseillaise hymn
will cheer on the Democratic hosts.
Oh, Liberty can man resign thee
once having felt thy generous fame?
Jan dangerous bolts or bars contine thee,
Or whips thy noble spirit tame!
100 long, the world has wept bewailing
That Falsehood's dagger tyrants WELD:
But freedom is over sword and Shield.
ana all their arts are unavailing.
10 arms! To arms! We brave!
Inc aNeng1ng sword unsheathe!
March on! March on! All hearts resolved
On victory or death.
This is the song We will sing, and if there
AN be found of our opponents, after the
anything more than a Republican
yrease-spot, a relic of the fat-fryers, nv
is Dennis. L am just now writing a
series of
"REMINISCENCES OF SAL LAKE CITY
md Utah generally for the Troy papers
These are a consequence of the personal
attack OF the fool writer Of the ITib1ne
me last August. If he thought 7
Gould be bluffed or DULL dozed when he
1lcked me up for a gull, he made a mistake
hat Gould or Sawyer or any other of the
of 1872 never made altbornh