The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-26
WHAT THEY SAY.

Our city contemporaries have all editori-
ally commented on the change in the pro-
prletorship of The HERALD as announced
last Sunday, and we present below what
our journalistic friends have said concern
ing it. We do this for the opportunity
which it affords to tender thanks to the
gentlemen of the profession for their kind
wishes, and also that the public may note
II anybody feels sore on account of what
mas been done. 1t would seem that under
no conditions or circumstances can some
people be decent or hide their envy. The
times, the vigorous and earnest young or
gan of Republicanism, says:
AS lntimated in the Times SATURDAY. n CON.
trolling interest in the SALT LAKE HERALD has
peen SOLD TO the Democrats, the announcement
OF the transfer having been made in the Sunday
morning Issue OF that paper. In brief fifty-one
one-huudredthS Of the paper has been sold for
Sol,uUJ The sale including the real estate known
as the Herald block. The purchasers secure
seven Of the thirteen directors the directory
now being constituted as follows R. G. CHAM
BERs, president; HEBER j. GRANT, vice presi
dent; ID. q. WHITNEY, secretary and treasurer.
f. ii. DYER, E. A. SMITH, ]. L. RAwLINs. !
w. JUDD, JOHN R. WINDER, JOHN II. GAME
THOMAS MARSHALL. R. w. YOUNG, GEORGE
CULLINs and SIMON BAMBERGER. The editorial
and business management remain as before. but
are subject to change at the discretion of the
board. The stock sold has all been
pooled and is to be voted by Mr.
CHAMBERS, thus ensuring absolute con-
troll for the Gentle branch OF the board
The paper announces that it will be straight
out Democratic organ. The important feature
OF the transaction, however lies in the fact tn at
II shows on the one hand, that the Democrats
are in earnest about their party organization.
and, on the other, that the Peoples party men
are in earnest about dissolving their local party
organization and afiliating with the two great
national parties. 1t is not likely that the CON
troll OF that paper would have been surrendered
to the Gentiles If there had not been a deem
rooted determination to abandon the old PEG
pies party as well as an abiding faith that the
agitation now in progress will wipe the Liberal
party out of existence.
1t does seem to the Times that this tran.
saction should be accepted as positive evidence
that the revolution has come to stay. The logic
OF the situation Is irresistible and we do not
see now anyone can fail to be impressed by il
An army may maneuvre or retreat In front Of
an enemy, but it never voluntarily surrenders
its guns until it has determined to disband and
abandon the contest.
Our distressed morning contemporary
expresses its kindly sentiments and hest
wishes for our prosperity, as follows:
And so THE HERALD sale, after much negoti
ating and many perils to the bargain, has been
censummated. To try to make sensation ont
of the fact, especially after it had become stale
nv tad T1nh IN al uein
Journalistic genius. But when the sensation,
takes the form of saying that the sale ia "a
gigantic bound" the gargoyles on the roof NAV
well grin. Such statement handicaps the new
control and slurs the old 1t also confesses uh at
in spite Of clamorous protest that THE HERALD
has been Democratic paper it in fact never
has been So And yet, with the old editorial
control unchanged the partisans of that politi
cal faith may well beware of new pretensions
ushered in with an admission Of the hollowness
of the old. However, time will prove all THINGS
The old management have done well to try to
get up "a little political excitement to boom
their sale; they have our congratulations on the
success of their strategy. The new manape
ment have taken the bait set for their lure
they have our sympathy. Yet as they are gen.
orally wel-to-do, this sympathy extends more
to the new mental worriment they have as.
sumed than it does to their possible financial
profits and what to do with the money thew will
earn. The sale will probably make no mar.
ticular difference in either political or iourna,
isttc circles The amount involved is not largo
the sale of but 600 shares of Ontario stool,
would involve the passing of as much spot cash
as the deal required, and few weeks pass with
out much heavier transactions here in some
line. Politically, before the new venture can
make any special Roadway, practical demon.
stration continued for some years will be neces-
sary, to show the throwing off of the church
shackles from the limbs of the new ''conyicts ),
The nomination Of GENTLE Democrats all