The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-29
POLITICAL SALAD.

If there has ever been anything in
the history of Journalism more dis
honorable, shifting, miserable and
evasive than the conduct of the Tri-
bune in this campaign people would
like to have it pointed out 1t is per-
fectly well known that before the Cit
liens movement for a reform ticket
was started, the heads of all three
papers in this city were approached
and all agreed to lend the movement
their support if it should be started.
Mr.. Chambers pledged The Herald.
Mr.. Cannon the News and Pat Lannan
the Tribune. Mr.. Lannan attended
most of the meetings of the committee
of fifty, even while they were negoti-
Iating with the Independent Citizens
and took part in all the deliberations
right UP to the last day, when the
compromise was effected. Yet in every
issue of his paper since that day, in
ia snealing, cowardly, malicious, yet
MISUNDERSTANDING the sheet
has done all it could to knife the Cit
liens ticket, and give aid and COM
fort to the Liberals.
On the street when he meets men like
the mayor or Arthur Pratt, for whom
he processes a friendship, or any of
his former confreres on the commit
tee of fifty, Mr.. Lannan adopts a
high moral tone-points to the fact
that his paper has not hoisted the Lib
eral ticket at the head of its columns
and that both tickets will only be in
serted on payment of the usual adj
vertising rates-which is supporting
the Citizens movement with a ven
geance. Immediately after breathing
these elevated sentiments he walks
into the counting room, reiterates in
tstructions that both parties are to be
charged advertising rates, then turns
lup stairs to the editor and reporters
and says, give the Citizens movement
HI
And this the editors and reporters
proceed to Go with their whole hearts
in their work The mayor, Arthur
Pratt and Mr. Burton were the objects
of attack yesterday-and all the at
taclls were conducted in a one-word-of-
praise Observation-Disclosures sort OF
way to enable the sheet to straddle the
fence and its manager to meet candi-
dates on both tickets and claim that he
lis the friend of both. How any man
with the slightest suspicion of sense,
how even Pat Lannan could imagine
that such transparent course could
win anything but contempt sur
passes human understanding TO faith
ON. If the Tribune would run the Lib
eral ticket at the head Of its columns
at once, it would be more respected by
every one in the Citizens movement.
The whole truth is that the Tribune
| is distracted over the situation, and
like the scorpion surrounded by a circle
of fire, it doesn't know which way to
turn, and shoots venom this way and
that indiscriminately. 1t wants to be
on the winning side, but it can't for
give the nomination of Backnan for
recorder instead of some one like Col
onel Page. On the day after election
| it wants to be in a position to say to
the Liberals if they win, Look at our
editorials during the campaign" And
to the Citizens should they win, Didn't
we refuse to put the Liberal ticket at
the head of our columns, and wasn't
AIr. Lannan one of the original fifty?"
Today the sheet is between the devil
and the deep sea.
D. c. Eichnor is fully acquainted
with the records of most of the toughs
and sure-thing workers; he can there
fore measure out to them condign judg-
rnentS His inc1ir1 hercY of the police