The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-25
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In response to our call upon the
Tribune to furnish some information
about that code" which it has con-
jured up in the fumes of a heated
imagination, that paper rambles
through a half column editorial para
graph in which it explains nothing
except that it does not know anything
of what it has been raving about
But it insinuates that The Herald is
possessed of knowledge on that of
which it confesses dense ignorance,
and adds:
I'VE know that if we knew as much
as does our morning contemporary we
could give a whole outline of the
deviltry that was intended
The amount of knowledge exhibited
in that paragraph is so wonderful that
it can scarcely be discovered by the
aid of the most powerful mental mi
croscope. 1t is pleasant to have the
Tribune confess that any paper knows
more on any subject than itself. But
as The Herald knows absolutely moth
ing of any code" or bill, or PROPOSE
ton of any kind such as the Tribune
pretends has an existence, and that
peculiar paper knows less than we do
about it, the logical conclusion is that
the Tribune knows less than nothing
of the matter it has been discoursing
about. and concerning which it has
been throwing out mysterious hints
and awful forebodings.
The only substantial thing set forth
by the Tribune on this subject is that:
I'VE know it was the purpose of a
few Democratic leaders, in case the
legislature should be Democratic, as
was expected, to redistrict the territory
in such a way as would make it
practically impossible for the Republi-
cans ever to have fair vote in the
state"
So that is the horrible bugaboo is it?
The code" has dwindled down to an
imaginary bill for an impossible pur-
pose The Tribune says it cannot prove
this, and repeats, "Of course we can
not prove it." Well why not, if it
knows so much and there is any foun-
dation for it? Its confessed ignorance,
mentioned in one line, is contradicted
in another in which it processes to
know that "a few Democratic leaders"
have such a purpose in view.
The answer to that is. it was i'm
possible for the Tribune to know"
anything of the kind, for no Demo-
cratic leader is so densely ignorant
as to think that the Utah legislature.
under the present laws of Congress,
can pass any measure for the redis-
tricting of the territory. That is now
in the power of Congress but not of
the Utah legislature. The Tribunes
bugabco is not even bag of saw
dust, it is myth, a wild guess. the
expression of a baseless rumor, that
lis all.
Now as to redistricting the territory.
That is something that no Democrat
will deny ought to be done. There are
many Republicans who are as en-
phatic in the denunciation of the pres
ent shoestring fraud as are the Demo-
Gratis. 1t was a Liberal scheme. 1t was
concocted for the purpose of linking
together precincts in which Liberal
votes could be had. 1t was violation
of the requirements of the law as to
an equal representation of the people.
and of the rule of proximity of pre-
cincts and contiguity of region which
should govern all such apportionments.
The Legislative Assembly cannot en-
act law to change that districting
and apportionment, but the present
thing is none the less infamous and
partizan. and it would have been
changed before this time but for the
fact that the Senate of the United
States was Republican last session, and
Utah Republicans fought the PROPOSE
ton for change, though at least one
prominent Republican from this terri
tory favored it strongly because of the
wrong that the present arrangement
works on the citizens.
There is no need for contealment
and there is none. of the fact that the