The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-16
LET JUDGMENT AND JUSTICE WIN.


The indications are that the same
tactics are to be resorted to which
were brought into use two years ago
and for the same purpose; that is, the
defeat of Joseph L. Rawlins and the
election of his opponent. We hope the
same failure will accompany them, if
for no other reason than that it will
teach a lesson which cannot be too
forcibly impressed upon the minds of
those who need it.
Left to their own judgment, after a
careful examination of the principles
of the two political parties, the re-
spective injuries and benefits received
by the country generally and ,the peo-
pie of Utah particularly, and the mer-
its and dement's of the candidates for
the Delegateship in Congress, we have
not the slightest doubt that the vote
once more would show a splendid ma
jority for the man who has served this
territory so well and secured for its
people so much in liberty and pros
perity.
But there are influences at work of
another character They are insidious.
They are largely to some extent Sc
cret. The same mysterious hints and
insinuations on the quiet, the same lit
erature scattered widely among the
people, dealing, not with live issues
but with dead and irrelevant matters
garbled and falsified to create wrong
impression. and public utterances by
certain men intended to overawe and
unduly sway people who are open 10
such impressions, are being called in
to requisition to avert the defeat of
the Republican candidate.
At first. it was as confidently sup
posed that he had a walk-over as it
was believed two years ago that Har-
rison's election was a dead certainty.
But recent reports do not confirm such
publican candidate may suffer as bad
an overthrow as Harrison and his par
ty did, notwithstanding the sure pre-
dictions of his success. So now the old
weapons are brought out of the limbo
where they were thrown last Novem-
Der. and are re-sharpened for the at
tack.
Will they accomplish the intended
purpose? That is left to the voting
citizens of Utah to decide. The Herald
appeals to the judgment, good sense,
manhood and justice of the people, and
asks them to show their appreciation
of honest worth, faithful service, bene-
/ fits conferred, and the liberties that
are in view as the result of their
choice two years ago, and to be sure
and not make now the great mistake
which they then avoided, but which
was urged upon them by mistaken adj
visers.
The plea that it is the wish of GER
tain generated gentlemen that people
shall vote this way. that or the other,
is both false and cowardly. False, be-
cause it has been most emphatically
denied; cowardly, because it is substl-
tuted for appeals to reason and judg-
ment and is used to unduly sway the
minds of the uninformed.
Bring forth your strong reasons, if
you are men. Come out of the secret
places and say openly what you whis-
per behind the scenes. If any instruc-
tons have beer sent from author
ity' which it is pretended has issued
them, let them be published openly and
above board, so that we may all un-
derstand them!
1t is only the supplemented and I'M
rejecting who will be turned aside by
such means. There ought to be no
occasion for abiding to them. But
since the evidences are that they are
again at work, we take this opportun-
ity of denouncing them as not only
wrong in principle, but sure IN the
end if they prevail to bring trouble
instead of good. Rawlins has demon
strated his fitness, his capability and
his devotion to Utah's welfare; it
will be not only black ingratitude but
most senseless policy TO turn him down
and strike a blow at the party which
has set Utah free,