The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-10
TIME TO STOP 1T.

We believe it is the sense of a very
large majority of the people of this
city, in which they are in harmony
with ninety-nine hundredths of the
citizens of the whole territory, that the
absurd attempts to connect any church
here with politics shall cease. If there
was the slightest endeavor on the part
of q religious body to dictate or con-
troll in the recent election it has not
yet been made to appear.
The utterances of the Liberal organ
on this subject are more like the jib-
bering of a lunatic than the reasoning
of rational being. and they do not
count with people who know its ten
dency to run in two or three set
grooves. Here it is now predicting in
this territory or state a civil war; as
a consequence of seeing these people
at the command of the church, vote
this ticket this year and that ticket
next year, and there will come a
time when they will say, We will not
stand it 1t goes on to talk about
making this place "a storm center
which, when the tempest is past, will
reveal all their homes made desolate."
We expected our contemporary
would alternate between bitterness and
the blues, and that it would attribute
the failure to its cause, which came
from absence of votes and of the
power to manufacture them, to some
entirely extraneous influence But
what a spectacle it makes of itself
when it pictures a church here "dra-
gooning its subjects into voting against
their best interests and pretending
that such men as Williams, Baskin,
Pratt, Mccormick, Daily. Newell, etc,
have been working with or under the
Mormon church to gain the election,
when there is not the slightest evil
dence to justify such ridiculous po-
sitionl
We cannot see what possible benefit
to anybody can come from such
palpable perversions of the truth. No
body here believes it, and if people
abroad are deceived by it the day is
gone when that could be made to
work the Tribune's purpose
Only a few days ago it had a bar
gain fixed up between the church and
the Democratic party to secure state
hood Now, when its own estimate of
election results gives a majority in the
legislature to the Republicans, it still
persists in its foolery and remarks:
Men with Republican instincts need
not pay attention to the vote through
out Utah which has possibly given the
territory a Republican legislature"
That is to say, they must not be gov
erned by facts nor the evidence of
their own senses, but shut their eyes
to everything save Tribune vagaries
and fctions
We do not as yet concede the Re-
publican legislature The Liberals
elected are neither one thing nor the
other, at present. And until the re-
turns are officially canvassed, two or
three districts will remain in doubt.
But, on the Tribune hypothesis, we
are to take a Republican success in
this territory as proof that the Nor
mon church has made bargain with
the Democratic party, and that it has
dragooned the people into voting
against their own beliefs and interests!
That is some more of the Tribune's
peculiar logic.
In its own elegant language, "All
that can be put down to the realm of
bosh,' to which the whole batch of
rawlings over election affairs in that
paper belongs It is not able to show
that there was any attempt at unfair
control of votes, or at illegal registra-
ton or voting, outside of Liberal
ranks and doings. It can only rant
and rave and hold UP its ancient, bat
tered and disembowelled bugaboo of
Mormon dictation, which causes
mingled derision and disgust even
among its own former followers.
The same causes that have turned
the tide of sentiment in the east have
been at work in Utah. We were in
hopes that the floating element here,
by which we mean the non-partisan
voters, were less volatile and more
stable than their fellows in the states.
But they have not yet learned how to
discriminate between political subter-
fuges and economic principles. and SO
have been turned towards Republic