The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-25
THE FREE LANCE.

Arthur Pratt has left town for brief
season of sport, but he might have enjoyed
more of it had he remained at home and
read the news in this mornings HERALD of
the proceedings in the Republican national
committee in Washington. If he has ever
been chagrined at the treatment he received
In the Liberal Republican, or Republican,
Liberal. meeting, the other day, he must
now feel that he has been fully vindicated.
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And as for Arthur Brown, he is avenged.
1t will be remembered that when Pratt
submitted in that meeting his memorable
resolution calling for the disbandonment
OF the old committee, Judge Goodwin
moved that he be turned out which was
duly agreed to. Whether to make his in
voluntary exit easier, or whether to make
the ignominy harder to bear for Arthur
Brown, whose proxy Pratt was, the Judge
remarked patronizingly and en- PEASANT
that Arthur II had presented the
resolution in much less offensive
manner than his principal, Arthur 1,
would have done. And now this prin-
cipal returns from Washington not only
with the scalp lock of Judge Goodwin
dangling from his belt, but with the
hirtuse glory OF all the members of that
committee. How the brethren do dwell in
unity!
And Kate Field, it seems, was not In it.
That spread at the Walker was thrown
away.
'Who is Tatlock?" asked Arthur Brown
in his speech before the national commit
tee (see The HRRALD special this morn
lnS). and without waiting for response he
continued, "a damned fool from Iowa"
What Tatlock rem arked at this juncture
deponent sayeth not, but it seems that the
committee agreed with the glib tongued at
torney and rejected the d. f. f. l. and his
commission from the Liberal party In Utah
Yet, really. what else could the ational
committee do but recognize the straight
Republicans? The Liberals resent the i'm
putation that they are either Republicans
politics In Utah outside Of the cid feud that
has passed as such. That claim, of
course, is intended only for home
consumption and for effect in
local elections. Outside of Utah
your average Liberal of today is a pretty
good Republican, and true to his instinct.
claims all he can get in the shape OF pap
ana patronage. Still, it requires consider
able gall under the circumstances.
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There is, or ought to be, a moral in all
TINS TO the few misguided Democrats who
still train with the Liberal party. The
country at large does no longer recognize
any Utah question" that can
not be solved in the usual process,
or with the political machinery recognized
IN all the rest of the United States. And
THIS country is altogether too large to
waste much time on petty clique that has
neither existence nor influence outside of
two communities and is losing them RAPIDLY
there. A Republican under any oisgui.e
Keeps his eye to the main chance and we
should be greatly disappointed if the action
OF the national committee in repudiatng
the faction which Brother Critchlow has
so faceoously called the BASTARD does not
work sudden caange of heart in many of
Its present adherents.
At any rate our esteemed contemporary
Will not enjoy its Thanksgiving turkey quite
so well as if the meeting of the National
Repub lican committee were yet TO take
place, or if the late Liberal Republican pow
WOW had not been quite so ARBITRARY.
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AS for Brown, Pratt ct al we surmise
they will not feast on turkey at ALL Moth
ing short OF the heart Of their friend. The
gentlemen hereabouts, among them Mar
shal Parsons, are waiting for the invita-
ton to partake of the banquet
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The city council last night passed reso-
luton censuring Marshal Young and his
force for their negligence or incompetency
In dealing with the gamblers and prosli-
tutes. Public indignation must indeed
have reached boiling point when
Liberal council can be moved to
reprimand a Liberal marshal whose
peculiar clientage is a decisive element in
the fortunes of local elections. Now, the
question is, what will Young DO about it?
Heretofore his friends have claimed
that his dereliction was dictated by
the ''policy'' of the administration.
This pretense must now fall 10 the
ground. But what will the Liberal mem
bers who signed the resolution do with
Young if the police still persist il violat-
ing their sworn dutya