The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-12-19
WHAT GOOD DOES 1T DO2

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wonderful cheek of the Tribune ever
since the election, in the matter of
counting the votes officially. One
would think from perusal of its coll
umns, that every ballot box stuffer in
the union had come to Utah and is
plying his vocation here right along
without let or hindrance. Every morn
ing those democratic beasts on the
Utah commission are held up in choic
est English to the scorn of the world,
or at least, that part of it which enjoys
the inestimable privilege of reading the
Tribune. Its ingenuity in twisting,
revamping and turning old charges in
order to fit them to do duty now, in the
manufacture of all sorts of possible
and impossible situations and motives
to suit the case, will become the won
der, if not the admiration of the age.
We Go not believe there ever was a
more plodding, matter of fact set of
officers than this same board of Utah
commissioners. Nor has a single shade
or suspicion of dishonest count methods
been fastened upon them. They have
worked faithfully and honorably and
have found and Strengthened out many
a knot In the rather awkward and bad
Iy managed election of the 9th of last
November. Nor can we find where
they, or any single member of the
body, has attempted any sort of
crooked work. 1t has resulted in the
discovery of as many democratic irreg-
ularities in the mode of holding the
election as republican, It's scrutiny
has resulted in here and there unseat-
ing democrat, and there and here
republican, but as yet no man has had
the temerlty to form specific charge
against tine board or ary one of its
members. Yet, Notwithstanding all
this, no single issue of the Tribune ap-
pears which does not contain its own
proper modicum of covert concealed
and wicked charge of dishonesty and
partisan bias against the board. It is
about time some of these charges be
established, or for the paper in ques-
tion TO stop. Human nature ,or, rather,
good nature, cannot stand the eternal
nagging forever. The board will and
must ultimately turn upon its perse-
cutor and when it does it VIII be but a
sorry day for the great republican or
gan of the territory. They have a half
dozen good libel suits in what it has
published of the board as whole and
about individual members of it as well.
We defy any partial friend of the pa
per to deny this statement.
What is its motive, what is behind
this undignified and petty warfare?
What does the Tribune expect to make
Off? Does it contemplate verdict
against the republican party in the
matter OF the constitutional conven-
ton? Or is it just keeping its armor
bright for next years bloody fray. If
SO, it is very unwise, for the unworthy
battle has disgusted many of its party
adherents who will vote with the dem
ocrats next year in consequence of this
ignoble fight at innocent men honestly
doing their duty as they see it. From
a journalistic standpoint the policy
pursued is most wretched. Whoever
brings charge which is not esta blished,
clearly weakens himself, aad when th
motive is sordid or unworthy in any |
way, the paper acting thus receives a
serious injury in the loss of the conf
dence of its readers, and consequent
reduction in the volume of its profits.
The Tribune is copying from the
bad Dana, the editor of the
bad and most wicked New York
Sun. but it ought to consider the
difference there is to be found between
New York and Salt Lake. Dana has a
constituency in New York which the
Tribune can never have in Salt Lake.
Dana can live if every respectable
man and honest woman of Gotham
should hermetlcally seal their doors
against the Sun, but in SaltLake it takes
many decent people to help out the
bad in furnishing daily bread for the
Tribune. Let the screenings stop
now, since halt is called.
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The late grand jury OF Salt Lake re-