The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-30
A bogus .RosTER."

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A writer who is not in straight
jacket simply because a commission in
quirendo de lunatico has not been en-
gagged on his case, has taken pains to
gather up some alleged data of the
positions occupied by gentlemen in diff
ferent parts of the territory and who
by marriage or otherwise are more or
less distantlys connected or supposed to
be, with the Thatcher family. The list
is paraded as a fat roster under the
head of sThatchers as public officials"
OF the fifteen names thus paraded
but five of the number are Thatchers.
One of them is a young lady acting as
a stenographer but not filing a public
office. That leaves but four out of the
fifteen, and one of them is simply a
member of the Board of Dental Ex-
aminers, who receive no emolument
from the territorial treasury and moth
ing from any other source except ac-
tual expenses while attending to board
duties. Another is a member of an
educational board, also without salary.
That leaves two members of the nu-
merous family in actual salaried public
Office. This is the fat roster when
tried down in the vessel of Facts with
the fire of truth.
Four persons named in the roster as
nephews of Thatchers are not nephews
of any member of the Thatcher fam
lily. One named as a son-in-law is
not a son-in-law and is not a relative
The same may be said of another so
named and whom nobody knows any
thing about; the name is probably a
blunder as well as the alleged relation
ship.
This roster" supposed to be COM
posed of Thatchers and relatives of
Thatchers and named as public Off
Gals, is "vouched for as accurate in
every particular" 1t is accurate only
in two instances out of the fifteen.
But that is as near accuracy as the
writer of the hodge-podge ever reaches.
1t reminds US of the fellow that spoke
of another as a Frenchman because he
had a cousin who married a girl whose
fathers name was France.
Suppose the roster was accurate in
every particular" what then? If a
gentleman holds a public Office and
some of his nephews, or uncles, or
cousins, or sons-in-law should be
! chosen to positions of trust or emolu-
ment, would that be anything for a
sane person or paper to pirate about
and an excuse for parading their names
in a disreputable print? One is at a
loss in looking over that 'roster" fat
only with falsehood, to decide whether
malice or insanity preponderates in the
mess of folly.
From the same hand some weeks
ago came daily records for nearly a
month, endeavoring to show that one
gentleman in this city held about half
dozen Offices It was repeated till
the readers Of the paper were sickened
with disgust. 1t was too silly to pro-
woke anything in rebuttal. And the
truth of the matter was that the gen
tleman thus attacked and to whom it
afforded much amusement, really held
but one Office, the duties of which in
Guided occasional ex-officio services
which were each enumerated as sepa-
rate and distinct positions.
Now what is the key to all these
attempts at personal publicity and eb-
ulIitons of maniacal spite? 1t is given
in the latest squirt of impotent fury in
these words: TT is also guaranteed
that all are Democrats That is a
solitary pleasing truth in the batch of
faIsehoods The gentlemen named are
Democrats, which is gratifying. They
are all capable men. Not a word is or
can be said against their perfect in
tegrity or their full ability to discharge
the duties imposed upon them. But
they are Democrats and therefore sup
posed to be proper objects of the snarl-
! ing and yelping attacks of any Repub-
ncan hydrophobic cur that chooses to
assail them.
The Thatcher family is well known
throughout Utah as among the pio-
neer settlers of the north, prominent in
every worthy movement and connec-
ton with it by marriage or otherwise
is an honor instead of a reproach. The
meanness of the article which we have
dissected consists in its mendacity and
petty spite, but perhaps may be some
what condoned by the evident unsound
condition of the mind of the writer.
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THE ESSENCE OF, IMPUDENCE.
One Of the most impudent pieces of
Republican assurance is the annexed: