The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-25
DON'T "TRY AGAIN.

! When a Republican editor is con-
fronted with the history of twenty-one
years of partisan deviltry that he is
obliged to defend, and is too honest to
deny, his line of argument invariably
is: You're anotherp' In referring to a
long list of specific acts of corruption
perpetrated by the Republican party
during the twenty-seven years of its
complete control of the government,
which The Herald presented few
days ago, our morning contempo-
rary essayed to reply with evasive in
direction, and the only specific charge
presented, which during this period can
be said to have even a faint of partici-
patton in by Democrats, was the cor
ruptions of the Tweed ring in New
York
Was it through the efforts of Mr..
Conkling and the ME too Platt, who
at that period controlled the Repub-
lican machine in New York, that the
Tweed ring was destroyed? Or was it
through the efforts of Mr.. Tilden.
whose sweeping reforms in the state
and city of New York were the first act
of publication of the shambles into
which American politics drifted when
the Republican oligarchy. usurped the
government after the death of Lincoln
Was the expenditure of sixty mil
| lions for a state house at Albany,
which has been duplicated for two
millions, the act Of the Tweed ring, or
was it the act of the state Republican
machine which, until overthrown by
/ Tilden and Cleveland, was as clearly in
control of the state as the Tweed ring
had been to the city? Or, to refresh the
memory of our contemporary, as the
notorious Boss Shepard ring was in con-
troll of the city of Washington and the
District of Columbia, which are directly
under control of the United States gov
eminent?
1t reiterates the history of its failure
to reorganize the south, and parades
the favorite Republican hobby and
falsehood of negro intimidation
I by the southern people, in
the same way, and for the
same purpose that the Republican
party and press has used this argu-
ment to excite the prejudice of the
north. as a cloak for the corruptions
! it perpetrated so long as it could re-
tain the power of control
In our arraignment we did not men
ton the legislation through which the
public lands were squandered, ,enorm-
Gus cash subventions granted to cor
porations, nor the favoritism that party
exhibited in directing public money in
to private channels, until it created
| a plutocracy a thousand times more
dangerous than the southern slave
holders ever were or threatened to be-
come. and in which the seeds of the
present disquiet and distress were
sown
| We did not mention that it was the
Republican party that turned our ma
tional financial system into the chan
nels of the money brokers of Wall
street. until the latter have become en-
iabled to draw the cash reserves from
the national treasury whenever it so
wills. and which the money brokers
actually threatened to do during the
administration of Mr. Harrison, and
which it actually did do a year ago
this month, to the paralysis of both
people and government.
| Is it the Democratic administration
or these brokers who threaten to de-
stroy both the finances and the credit
of the government in case silver be re-
F. monetized. and who. through the