Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-02-16
LIVING IN A GLASS mousR.


rothing. II has been the favDrlto
diversion Of some Of the Republican
press for many years To apply this term
10 a large element In the Democratic
party, basing such application upon
the assumed illiteracy Of a portion Of
tho latter party IN the large citiee and
tho interior districts Of tho South, also
upon the well.known tendency Of
Democracy TO conservatism aud old.
time methods. Nothing affords or
afforded the class Of papers spoken oi
greater diversion than to show how
-jme sturdy old backwoodsmsn "down
south" went to the polls
At the last election and voted for
Andrew jackson, or that "the gang"
m New York or Cincinnati at u Ger.
tain time could with officially be te
strained from making an attack ON -
colorcd parade or n colored school.
In the entire list Of papers OF bis
class--whoso chief Justification has
been the doubtful one Of permitting ex
aggoration for the sake Of making a
polnt more conspicuous-we can onli
TO mind none that has sung the dis
coriant song oftener or louder than III =
IAN Francisco Chronicle. Aud Il
seems 10 have been less dis.
eliminating and more s,olld In
it, use OF the term than ANY
other publication We know Of
with the possible exception o.
the Now York Nd1 aud ETpre,s
IL has been Bourbon this aud Bouc'
bon that almost every time any Den.
ocrat or anything Democratic has been
under discussion, until In those col
nmns the word has lost something Of
It's virility and become vapid aud mea,'
urably meaningless.
IL IL not for this paper, or any other,
10 instruct the ChroHieio or any Other
publication as 10 how II should be cor
lucted or what Its columns SHOULD
contain, and II will b, observed this,
we have all along ste, ed clear VI any
such or any dictatlon, desire or rogue :
Ia TINT direction, and we Ger.
tainly intend 10 40 continue. But tina
does not prevent US from noting Ia o.
Journalistic way, how those papers
which are 30 extremely censorious auJ
addicted to explosives occasionally be-.
trny something Of the very defec.
which they 20 iondly hold up to tho
ridlculo or contempt OF mankind a.
existing In others. For example, thu
Chronicle cannot touch upon or even
approach subject with which "NIor.
nous" OF "Mormon" may be In SOM
manner connected, without exhibiting
the old.time venom, bad Judgmcn'
aud, In short, Bourbonism, that have
been iis prevailing characteristics from
the beginning.
A recent Issue Of the Chronicle, com.
mentlng upon the effort OF the peopl,
" Arizona TO acquire Statehood, coul
not verywell say theyhad no claim, alter
10 recently champlonlng the cause Of
two new commonwealth whose pop
lation, II not wealth, were inferior t.
those Of our southern neighbor, nee
could II consistently oppose the applI.
cation because q majority Of the voter
there are Democrats, after calling all
the Democrats In aud out OF Congres
hard uames including "Boufbon"-foi
not being devoted to the proposition ia
let Idaho and Wyoming In.
Hut there are few "Mormou" fami.
lies In Arizona, and when this fac
dawned upon the strained intellect d
the editor by the bay, he must have
shouted "Eurekal" In very glee. u,
thereupon proceeded to state his cas-
as against adulsslon, II being tina
"Mormonsv are Democrats or Repuh
Leans rs circumstances may require
urging, inferentially, that, holding IN,
balance Of political power, they wouit
control the State after the same fashion
aud make 1t an element Of uncertainty
In the great combination OF sover
eighty.
Such little facts as the ArlLon'
"Mofmons" not being sufficiently ma
merous to hold the balance NJ power
either Of the parties having TN
ability to win without the assistance %
our people aud both having done 81
within tn. past decaie-and that til,
Enormous" there, so far as they have
been permitted TO engage la politicA
htIalts at all are by no means all Dem.
,uratic, do not seem 70 weigh heavily
Nlth the scribe. We say "seem" a.
; risodly enough, for OF course the PEG
pie complained Of are with him IL,
} vloarious means by which an objection
IL lodged against the admission VI {
Democratic State, there being no othu
reason apparent Tor opposition.
The Chronicles Antagonist TO cree,
! which Il does not like aud u Iartl
which gives It no support, comes abou
~ near placing Il Ia the category 10
! which II so delights to place tho au
hereuts Of the classes UntAggui4rd O.
ANYTHING could possibly DO. 1, doe