The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-15
TIE DEMOCRATIC SENTIMENT.

The Ogden Post tersely expresses the
sentiment Of every good Democrat in Utah
when it says: "The Post expresses the
hepe that if the Tnscaroras are acknowl-
edged to any extent at Chicago, that Judge
HENDERSON and Hon. JoaS T. CAME will
withdraw. Let there be no compromise
between Democrats and political hernia
phrodites who, ike nule, have neither
pride of ancestry nor hope Of posterity."
OF course there is not the least likelihood
Of the national convention recognizing in
any manner the nondescripts. The Chicago
gathering viii be one OF Democrats where
Democracy is unquestioned, and if there
were no other applicants for the seats
assigned to Utah than the gentlemen going
down as Tuscaroras, wo assume those
seats would remain vacant. A Democratic
convention is not in the habit Of admitting
to participation in its councils men who
openly fight the Democracy, support rank
Republican newspapers which daily black
guard and 5enonnce Democrats, and vote OPP
position tickets when there are Democratic
tickets in the field. The gentlemen who
went to Minneapolis to represent the party
10 which the Tuscaroras belong would be
quite as likely to get seats in the Chicago
wigwam as will the fellows who are now
rolling across the continent making holy
show of themselves.
This could all be said if there were no
Democratic party in Utah, and it can be
emphasized in view Of the fact that the
Democracy here has a perfect organization
with an unbroken record extending over
twenty years. There is not a flaw in the
title, not a break in the record. The De-
mocracy, in the regular manner, have
chosen delegates to Chicago and duly com
missioned them to represent and speak fer
the party in the great convention. There
can be no question as TO recognition, for
there is nobody else for the convention to
recognize.
The circumstance that the Minneapolis
convention admitted contesting and OPP
posing delegations, dividing the votes
equally between them, has led some to think
that perhaps the convention may follow
the example, and we assume this talk has
led our Ogden contemporary to the ex
preston quoted. The cases are in no sense
analogous. The Minneapolis was q Re-
publican convention; the Republican party
OF the nation has always recognized the
Liberal party Of Utah as representing the
Republican sentiment; besides, it cannot
be denied that while the Liberals are not
now the Repu blicans in strict sense, they
had the straight party organization, the
others appearing as boilers although stand
ing on a Republican platform; further
more, the national party did not want to
-antagonizs the local party which it had al
ways supported, and yet it desired to make
friends among the people with the view TO
attracting votes 1t was the game
Of politics which the convention
was playing and while we may think it did
not play il we'll, perhaps the outcome will
prove that the men who managed the
affair knew better what would be the re-
suit of the harmonizing efforts than some
of Us here; perhaps in little while the
Liberals and Republicans viii merge their
organizations, the present difference being
little more than one Of name.
The case of the Tuscaroras is entirely
different. Their organization is not yet six
uSuhuS OiO duO lA0f AEC AOimSu OA duLA-
Democratic lines; they are without stand
ing as a political party either at home or
abroad, in court or out of it, and what is of
Importance in such matters they haven't
a corporars guard of voters.
Is it among the probabilities that the
national Democracy would think for a
momen, of admitting to the convention with
any sort of representation such an outfit,
the delegates sent there by the party which
at the last election cast more votes than all
parties in Utah combined, being turned
down or insultedl The proposition is so
ludicrous as TO be unworthy serious con
sideration But If such a thing were pos
sible we know that all the Democrats in
Utah, If they could make themselves heard
at Chicago, would say to their representa-
tives, come home and do not shame and
disgrace US by a seeming utilization with
Democrats; come home, saying to the
convention, if the Tuscaroras are Demo-
Gratis, then we are something else; half
recognition would be equivalent to turning
the territory over to the Liberals, and
hence to the Republicans; come home
with self-respect ana without entering into
compromises which cannot be explained to
the satisfaction of Democrats.
This is what the Democrats would all say
under the circumstances suggested, and
they would all mean it.