The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-03-05
Gone Daft.

Our nelghbor. the organ of the Liberal
party and apologist for Republican errors
and hatreds, has a great deal to say
against the endeavor of certain Demo-
cratic congressman to secure the redis-
tricting of this territory, as we'll as the
purging of the registration lists before
another election. This is not to be Won
dered at. seeing that it always supported
the frauds by which the legal voters have
been placed at disadvantage through
stuffed registration lists and shoestring
apportionment.
The prospect of the unloading of the
names of dead and absent persons,
so that the old Liberal trick of
PRESERVATION will become difficult,
if not impossible, seems to agitate
the organ to the verge of insanity. Dele
gate GAME and Senator FAULKNER are
berated savagely for their efforts in rela-
ton to the Utah Commission and it's
work, and the only intent it can see in
the proposal to redistrict the Territory is
to reduce the population of Salt Lake to
40, 900 and divide it so that by attaching
the pieces to outside Mormon localities
this city would practically have no repre-
sentation at all in the Legislature. - We
are further told that ''THE HERALD de-
tends this attempted swindle.'
We are sorry for our contemporary; it's
imagination is terribly distorted, or its
veracity IS awfully impaired. There has
been no such tool proposition as
this which it has manufactured, so
The HERALD has had no occasion to de-
fend it. Why Mr.. GAME or anybody
else should endeavor to deprive this city
where he lives of any representation in
the Legislature, nobody on earth could
see unless afflicted with the complaint
that troubles the Liberal organ.
When the Utah Commission, under the
auspices of the Liberal party and its
paper was authorized to redistrict the
territory, there were no objections from
the Tribune nor were there any remon
strances against the shameful chopping
and linking of districts with a partisan
purpose in view. On the contrary the
paper that now has delirium over the
prospect of a reapportionment, then and
ever since has defended that ''swindle. !"
Why should there not be reapportion
ment of the territory? The Tribune adj
mits that this city now has population
of 60, 900 and that Ogden and Park City
have each increased so per cent. Other
places also have increased in population.
Well, does not that all form reason
for instead of against reapportionment?
Where does the ''swindle'' come in now?
1t is simply in the diseased Imagination
or erroneous assertion of our deranged
contemporary. But it may be considered
quite natural, because it can only Judge
the motive by its own standard of equity,
exhibited in the s'swindle'' of the last
apportionment.l
There is nothing else on which to
predicate the gratuitous assertion that
there was any intention to do an injustice
to this city or other portion of the terri
tory. This is sore time for Republicans,
whether of the Liberal stripe or the gen.
uine kind, and some allowance must
be made for the organs condition of ner-
vous disorder. And as the reapportion-
ment proposition did not carry, there is
some hope that the Tribune may recover
and become compos mentis. Its present
agitation is entirely without sense or
reason.