The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-20
An Able Review of the Status of
Both Parties.
THE HERALD AS AN EDUCATOR
If the Republican Organization Does Not Re
form the Democratic Party Will
Destroy II.

tAteHG pOlUlCdlly. we Understand tGfrl-
torial vexations and appreciate remedies
for the thousand ills that afflict the people
who live under that nondescript for gov
eminent. If the organic act of Idaho in
1853 had been based upon the common
sense prin and home rule and fixed
with the skill and fairness of the Faulkner
Caine bill, things here would have gone
smoother and more prosperously than they
went for nearly thirty years. We should
have had enjoyed the substantial rights
common to American citizens elsewhere,
at less cost and fewer haro feelings
among ourselves. ! think THE SALT LAKE
HERALD was wise in its expression that the
Faulkner bill should be made the basis of
all future acts organizing the territories
hereafter incorporated in this country-if,
indeed, we are unfortunate enough to ever
acquire or require any additional territor-
les holding a subordinate position. The
justice and business advantages of such
system are so obvious that it is strange
that any combination of men can be found
there to combat it. II is rumored that
SENATOR DUBOIS WILL FAVOR THE MEASURE.
If he does he will be sustained by his Id
aho constituents of all shades of politics,
and Senator Shoup's common sense ought
to induce like action. There will be an
other Congressman TO be chosen here next
fall, matter which Judge Sweet probably
bears in mind. He will lose no friends in
Idaho and may gain some credit by also
giving that bill his assistance. He will
discover when he returns here for re-
election that changed circumst tan es have
changed many ideas among the people, and
that he will lose nothing by dropping any
old prejudices he may entertain ON the sub
iect among the driftwood of dead political
and personal conflicts.
This allusion to Idaho's representatives
recalls the fact that this state will elect an
entire state ticket and Legislature, as we'll
as county tickets next November, with the
exception Of two supreme judges, the dis
trict judges and attorneys. a successor
for Chief Justice Sullivan, VINO IN
fortunately for himself drew the short
term, will also be elected. Three presi-
Dental electors will give the election some
national interest.
There is much reason to believe that i'm
portant political changes threaten Idaho
politicians. Standing clearly out of the
present confusion one of two events will
occur. The present state officials cannot
be reelected; either the Republican lead
ers will be forced to drop them or the
Democratic party will give them deadly
drop next November. AT the best, Re-
publicans estimate the prospects of carry
ing the state as gloomy. Many changes
have occurred within the past eighteen
months, and they have all tended one
way. The winds have been unfavora bic
and still blow from the north. A bitter
bitterness was left in the mouths of many
staunch Republicans over the senatorial
wrangle, and it still hangs about the lips of
many Ia Alturas county. The last Legisla-
ture did nothing to redeem itself after
wards by adopting code of laws adapted
TO the requirements of state constitution.
We are yet under the old territorial laws,
AN ILL-soRTED COLLECTION OF OBSOLETE
ODDS AND ENDS,
to which a wrong-headed legislature and
executive confuse by the addition of un-
welcome license and incorporation enact
meDts, unwise and unpopular everywhere
There were Jew able men in that leglsla-
| ture, but they were there to elect certain
| United States Senators only, and the mass
of the third rate representative comprising
| the remainder knew little or nothing about
| legislation, and cared less. How little they
| were identified with the state was shown q
| few weeks ago when Governor WILEY
schemed to convene an extra session this
winter, and found that greater portion OF
| the old members had left their counties and
could nowhere be discovered within the
state. The governor himself is conceded
| by his political associates TO be incompe
tent, and only useful TO the Shoup faction
blowing that Senator's horn during his ab-
sence, boosting his personal friends an6
breeding Republican discord and Demo.
cratic derision. The accident of the hour
mis- political life, will die with his present
term. There are some able Republicans in
North Idaho who feel that they were mis-
placed in Idaho politics by the makeshift:
that led to Governor Willeys nomination
for lieutenan t-governor, and that ofticia
will hear from them later.
Alturas county got more than its share
| of the state officers when Gen Roberts
! Secretary Pinkham, U. S. Marshal il
Pinkham, Warden Mack, and some of theil
assistants and depend ents, walked int
business at Boise City, and they seem tt
have succeeded admirably by their contri
| buttons to the general discord. There is
growl. sometimes amounting to a howl
over the alleged
MIsMANAGEMENT OF THE STATE INSTITUTION.
controlled by the commissions composed O
! these identical state officials. These com
missions are state mouopolles OF the wors
description, furnishing pickering oppor
tunities offensive to effective management
! and the text of general COMPLAINT o
|
are noisy and denunciatjve. Their wilC
assertions are to be taken with some grain:
! Of salt, but a general Gistrust or disgust i.
not to be sneered at on the morning oil az
election.
From this miserable condition there i.
one release-if the Republican organiza-
ton does not reform it, the Democratic
party will destroy it. Some one is bounc
| 10 take that contract. The entire outfi
will be cleaned out when the next state
conventions meet, or next November
Even Alturas county, strongly one sided
as it is, may be FESTIVE, dissatisfied snc
threatening in high Republican quarters
| They rage fer a change at least-even if il
includes themselves.
Their own angry words can be taken for
| that. Moody's educational bureau. witt
its endorsed bogus circulars and pennies
school teachers, have contributed to paint
! this high-toned state administration In an,
but fancy colors.
| The majorities IN Idaho are too small snt
insecure TO be tri1ed with. Two years age
Sweet had a majority of ALL over May
| hugh; Shoup for governor little more
and others less, down to ,457 majority fol
| attor ey general. The average was some
thing less than 1000.
| This was no fair, reliable reflection o.
public sentiment on any enduring question
| then. and much less now. TO say nothing
OF the hundreds of voters disfranchiset
outright many intimidated by threatened
prosecutions, since abandoned, some were
offended and revengeful, with or without
cause, for Democratic acts of omission OF
commission in the constitutional conven
ton and previous legislatures. All tn.
passing winds that blew about that time
contributed to the federal programme ano
the hurrah for statehood expanded th,
sails. Silver went up to l.21, TO tumble t,
81 in 1892, as THE SALT LAKE HERALI
afore told when the silver PURCHASE
act was passed. The unthinking and mer
cenary found ample excuse for joining tn,
crowd Politicians of every nondescrip
quality shouted glibly in the lively hop,
that lightning would strike somewhere il