The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-02
A REPUBLICAN ADDRESS.

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A contemporary that affects virtue
and morality far beyond that possessed
by most mortal men. issues an address
to the Mormon people. 1t is well de-
vised plan to make them think there is
nothing but lofty principle behind it all.
The issues in the campaign are not
the issues that divided the people of
this territory in the years that are
gone and it would be impossible to re-
vive them. The people are told that
they were called together and in the
most solemn manner accepted the
situation. This can only refer to the
manifesto issued some four years ago.
Has any one who accepted that thought
for one moment Of "going back on it?
The supreme impudence of saying
that the Democrats are seeking TO
awaken the old bitterness is enough to
take away ones breath. Our contem-
porary cannot so soon have forgotten
the speech made by Mr.. John NJ. Zane
at Salina some weeks ago in which he
waved the local bloody shirt So far as
we know, there has never been such an
attempt in this territory by appealing
to prejudice and resorting to the acts of
the demagogue, to arouse passion and
prejudice and turn them to political
profit as was done by Mr.. Zane.
Let us take a local example, one
that contains all the elements of the
controversy that our Republican con-
temporary falsely accuses the Demo-
Gratis of trying to revive. In this city
last winter there were two municipal
tickets in the field. One was called the
Citizens ticket. the other the Liberal.
The Citizens ticket won, and that vic
tory was in reality the final division
on party lines in this territory. The
result was accepted by those who had
lost good humoredly and in good faith.
But it was not accepted by our Repub-
lican contemporary nor did it give up
the old issues until the special election
for a member of the Legislature 20 fill
the place made vacant by the death of
Mr.. Clearance Hall. The Democrats and
the Republicans put up candidates,
Hon. w c. Hall and Hon. C. S. Varian.
Mr.. Varian was elected and our Re
publican contemporary saw a new light,
and thought that with Mr.. Variants
large majority the territory would be
safely Republican, and then, and then
only, it was division on party lines.
It's moral lectures on keeping faith on
the political division of the people
should be confined to occurrences that
have happened since the special cleo
ton in FebJlary.
One more illustration. This also is
local, and has to do with the Citizens
ticket. The gentleman who was at the
head of it was a Democrat of the most
type. But he was more
than that. For twenty years prior
thereto he had been looked upon as the /
very personification of the anti-Mor- /
mon sentiment in Utah. That gentle |
man was Hon. Robert n. Baskin. He /
too. accepted the division of the Nor
mon people on party lines in good !
laith. More than that he showed his I
of it by his works. In his (
appointments to office he made no dis Z
inction between Mormons and Cen
lies. But others did, men who had /
leen elected on the same ticket with .
lin. Members of the Council, elected +
N the same ticket with Mayor Bask;n.
md Republicans, went to his honor
md objected to so many Mormons be-
ng named for office Can our contem-
,orary call this anything other than a
direct insult to those very Mormons
Who supported these same Republicans?
God forbid that the fight of the past
hould ever have to be fought again,
'ut we ask our contemporary, in the
ight of the example we have just
ited, who it is that is trying to re
waken the old bitterness IN Utah,
he Democrats or the Republicans