The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-24
BUT ONE COURSE OPEN.

Months ago THE HERALD warned certain
gentlemen who claimed that they were
Democrats, although they were sailing
under pirate flag, that they were speed
ing TO their political destruction. We told
them that if they continued in the course
they were pursuing it was only matter
Of time when they would find themselves
stranded. Well, the crisis has come. There
must be an immediate turning about
hauling down or desertion OF the pirate
rag, or the adoption of the life of the po-
litical renegade.
The Chicago convention settled one thing
and settled it in a manner which puts en-
end to discussion Ii said there YVES but
one Democratic party in Utah. When.
alter q full hearing of both sides OF the
controversy, the subcommittee, and after
wards the full committee on credentials,
and finally the great convention itself ad-
mit,ed Messrs. HENDERSON and CAME to
the seats accorded TO the Democracy of this
territory, the decree of the national party
went forth that in Utah none are Demo-
Gratis who do not recognize and train
with the organization which sent Messrs.
CAME and HENDERSON to Chicago. The
question at issue was not ike that pre-
scented in other contests. 1t was cues
ton OF which of the delegations repre-
sented the Utah Democracy-wh was,
IN fact, Democratic. The regulars said
frankly and with emphasis and determine
ton, that if the others were Democrats
then they (the regulars) were not. Then
they proved TO the satisfaction of the com
mittee that they were Democrats, and in
doing SO established that the others were
not. The decision was made, the decree
entered, and from this time forth there is
but one Democratic party in Utah, that
party being without explanatory or quail
! flying adjectiVes in Its title. In order to be
q Democrat one must hereafter acknow-
ledge allegiance to the Democracy which
bears the certiscation of the national party
The HERALD thinks there are some good
men in the organization which has just
been sat down upon at Chicago and had the
life squeezed out of it. We believe there
are in the society some who think they are
and who really want to be Democrats
They have been misled, as they must now
see. They have been inveigled and taken
astray by demagogues and blatherskites
whose tongues were loaded with promises
which could not be fulfilled. The intelligent,
decent men who believe in Democratic prin-
ciples and Democratic methods and prac-
tees, cannot longer close their eyes to the
true status of affairs; they cannot excuse
themselves on the ground that they are
deceived, for the national convention has
removed the scales from their eyes and
Illuminated their minds with the light of
truth To these gentlemen we want to
say, as we said months ago, that they must
be Demo Gratis or enti-Democrats all the
time. They cannot do as some of them
have done in the past, be Democrats one
day in four years. and oppose the party all
the other days. II they are Democrats
they win now cease to be anything else,
and will come into the Democratic party
and work for the supremacy of Demo-
cratic principles at home as well as through
cut the nation.
THE HERALD entertsins only the kindliest
feeling for the misguided gentlemen. Il
hopes they viii have the strength to break
away from the spell put upon them by
their cunning, contemplate and uuprinci-
pied bosses and viii show the courage
which it may require to be honest with
themselves. This hope Is not inspired by
the desire to strengthen the Democratic
party, for we have never been able to dis
cover that there were enough Of them
claiming to be Democrats who were work
ing with the opposition 10 amount to any
thing numerically. Our wish is simply
that decent men viii not pose ia an attitude
which is injurious to themselves.