The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-29

honesty; to trust In his sincerity; 10 hang
upon his counsel, and then wake up one
day to the realization that he is but cheap
demagogue after all.
IT'S true, tits pity,
Pity tbs tits true.
IL Is extremely funny to read In the Lib
eral platform resolve that ''this conven-
ton respectfully petitions the governor Of
the territory to Withhold his approval of this
nefarious measure" The nefarious meas
ure referred to is the election bill, which
proposes to minimize our now innumerable
elections and their disturbing effects upon
business. 1t Is funny because the veto is
foreordained by the real governor, whose
edict the substitute would never defy.
In view of the fulsome fiattery the Lib
eral platform heaps upon the workmen
with ill-disguised hypocrisy, since it never
deigned to recognize them by single NOM
ination for even Moran is a contractor and
not wageearner), 1t would be eminently
proper for the Democratic convention 10
Resolve, that the Liberal party makes
promises lightly because it breaks them as
Lightly" What the Democrats promise
will be sacredly kept. That the laborers
of Salt Lake city and Of Utah may depend
on.
What do the Liberals take the workmen
for anyway! On Wednesday Deputy
Watermaster Hutchinson went among his
men soliciting them to give days pay
81, 8. or s5-whatever they could-to-
wards the Liberal campaign fund. He
told them that the committee was g, 500
behind while the Democrats were wealthy
and pretty hard to buck" against.
Livery dollar you give now" he beseeched
them, means 500 to you when the
Liberals get in. Then there will be- plenty
of work for lsborers, but if the Democrats
get in the workingmen viii have to
walk out Of town" The men thus
patheticaliy appealed to considered
the proposition a little, and thought of the
way they had been coralled in the Twen-
tieth ward and then locked during the
cold snap upon the claim that the city had
no money to pay them; and how they were
day-and when they had pondered awhile
over this thing and sundry other things
they came to the just conclusion that the
Liberal party was false to every promise,
and they refused TO contribute cent. The
workmen of Salt Lake are among the most
level headed citizens we have
Another case: The men working on the
canal on State road and Roper are required
to walk twenty five or thirty blocks TO and
from their work. because the bosses de-
mand that they live where they may vote
Nevertheless Pendletou, who has charge of
them, conpels them to toll eight hours in
the water without making allowance for
the time they are lequired TO speud in
coming and going. When the men refused
to submit further 10 this insolence and
left word in Hutchinson's Office to remove
Pendleton, the assistant watermaster came
cut and old them not to mind his
foreman. Yet the latter remains through
the same influence that whispers hope to
the ear and breakes it to the heart What
will the bosses do after the election ia
over and they have no longer any use for
Salt Lake labor for Salt Lake laborersa
I
Was there ever nominating speech made
like that of Varian in favor of Clute last
evening!
His acts have for two years past been in the
glare of the light, and he comes to ask you
to endorse his acts as an officer. I
am prepared TO say that | think it is
the duty OF the Liberal party to stand
by those who carry their standards on
to success. There is a question Of principal in
understanding beyond the candidacy for
office, and We are bound to acknowledge that
principle The man 1 shall present has done
more than anyone else to bear the brunt
OF the battle. The time has come
when we are confronted with the position,
can we affCrl to turn our faces from
true and tried public servant?" l
have nothing to say against others
sCcsing this nomination. Two years ago YOU
we're called upon to elect new ard untried men :;
some Of them have deserted you some have
fallen by the wayside. I say 10 you now, can
you afford to turn your back upon the tried and
true? place in nomination Mr. Z. R Clute.
And after all that the convention
squelched both the candidate and his
sponsor.
In fact, the Liberal party after reciting
the great Things it had performed, in it's
mind, during the two years of its rule,
gave its own profession the lie by turning
out every officer, save ono (Karr;ck), who
had heeu Instrumental in achieving the al
legged improvements. Either the Liberal
party knew it was telling Il deliberate
falsehood and rather than invoke the re-
sentiment of the people at the
polls, sacrificed its present servants, or
else it is the most ungrateful organization
extant. We don't know which horn of the
dilemma is the most cursed.
Poor Clutei He had been so good of late
Meier tax did he urge. A milder collector
never lived in Christendom. He never nc
Tested soul. His books showed tCxes in
Vulnerable in arrears, bat he never troubled
the contumacious And had be been re-
nominated the old adage that moth
ing is so sure in this world
as death and taxes would have been
suspended, SO far as the latter are con-
cerned, until after the election. But since
things have taken another turn let those
who owe for taxes prepare to pay them
now.
Wonder if Judge Colborn can look him
self in the mirror after that speech
of his nominating Leonard. Ye
shades of Ananias and Sapphirai
Annie Prndle thou standest white.
washed before the world. Joe Mulhattan
is paragon of veracity since Colborn has
entered the field. ''God made but one