The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-07
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Tue subcommittee To which the contest
was referred. has recommended, and the
national committee has adopted the recon-
mendation that the straight out Repub-
can delegates from this territory to the
Minneapolis convention be recognized as
the representatives Of the Republican
party Of Utah. This conclusion was ar
rived at after full hearing Of both sides
OF the controversy. 1t seems that the
Tuscarora Republicans stood squareiy
upon the Liberal platform, and treated the
committee 10 general assortment &C the
stock-in-trade, cock and-bull stories Gbout
Mormon atrocities, Mormon disloyalty,
Mormon duplicitg and insincerity and for
variety and impressiveness the genial
editor of our esteemed neighbor inter-
lected something of the heroic by saying
ne would have been killed if the Saints
had dared to do it. Of course the gentle
man believed that stuff in Minneapolis, but
Il may be doubted that he would believe it
here, where for dozen years, if he has
ever felt any apprehension regarding his
personal safety, his friends have been
held in the dark concerning the fact.
As people here read Of the ludicrous twad-
die they will charitably say the stuff was
intended for Minneapolis and not for home
consumption.
But all this has nothing to do with the
case q The national committee decides,
and so viii the national convention today,
that political party cannot be recognized
as Republican one day in four years when
all the other days it does not even pretend
to be Republican. The action OF the COM
mittee is logical. ANY other conclusion
would have been ridiculous, and would
have laid the national party open to the
charge, which could not have been denied,
Of Inconsistency and q total lack Of prin-
ciple.
Perhaps there are some here who be-
lieved the contest would have a different
termination. There are blind fanatics in
every community. There arc men who
never give their reasoning faculties a
chance when reason conflicts with their
desires Gentlemen Of this class may
have thought the Minneapolis conven-
ton would recognize as Republican
party which only the other day rejected
a resolution to support Republican for
the only political Office to be voted for in
the territory this year, and these gentle
men may be ohagrined, as they will be dis
appointed, to learn that IN the opinion Of
the Republican party Of the nation while
there may be little difference between the
Liberal and Republican parties of Utah,
the one which processes TO be Republican
all the time is the one TO be recognized.
As to the effect the very proper action at
Minneapolis will have here in Utah The
HERALD will not pretend to say, nor does
it care. The quarrel is all on the other
side OF the house, and so far as the Demo,
cracy are concerned it is a case Of 'go it
bear 60 it old woman Our only con-
cern is that Of DISTINGUISHED onlookers. AT
the same time we will express the opinion
that the antics of the Tuscaro-a Republi-
cans for the next few months will furnish
plenty of amusement for the public.
Some will swear and some will rave, some
will declare they have no further use for
the Republican party, a few will sneak
into the ranks, some of the more brazen
ones may actually want to "boss the loo''
for the Republicans. but we imagine that
the cohesive power OF public plunder will
hold the great majority of the Salt Lake
city Liberals together, while elsewhere
Throughout the territory the name, as ap-
piled to political organization, will soon
be only memory.