The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-28

of Representatives could not get down
TO regular business directly after the
holidays, because some Democratic
members had not returned and the
Republicans would not vote, is it not
clear as mud that the four Utah Re
publican Councillors who skipped out
and hid away in the midst of a de-
bate, did exactly the proper thing?
land that in permitting them to vote
on matter in which they were directly
interested, their political confrere in
the chair was perfectly right and fair,
even if it was contrary to the accepted
rules of the Council? Who will dis
Ipute such unanswerable logic?
If anything can be said to weaken
such profound ratiocination it might
be that the alleged facts on which it
is founded are untrue. Here are a few
of them:
1t is stated that when the Republic
cans were in a. temporary minority,
MIR. Williams sprung the hearing of a
resolution" The truth is a memorial
had been made the special order of
the day by vote of the Republicans
and came up in its regular course, and
the question was not sprung by Mr..
Williams or anybody else.
1t is asserted that -four out of five
of the legal voters of this territory
desire to have that duty (on leaO re-
tanned" That is just as untrue as the
other statement. If even majority
of the voters are in favor of a. duty
on lead they have not yet declared so,
and the idea that the Democrats in the
Legislature, who are in the minority
through the shoestring juggling of the
last apportionment, only represent one
fifth of the voters, is SO preposterous
that even the Tribune wouldn't have
Expressed it but that it had a bad
cause to defend and got mad and abus-
i've over it.
The sheer and slur about Mr.. Will
liams' leadership is merely inferred un-
der the head of probably which with
our contemporary answers for a fact
but will not be so regarded by the
public, so that may go.
As to the statement about the edi-
tor of this paper, there is nothing in
its support but the gossip of Tribune
correspondent, the refutation of which
appeared in it's own columns shortly
after. The facts in the matter were all
brought out in an investigation by
the Wyoming Legislature. which
showed that the Republicans them
selves recognized the falsity of the
story that had been started concerning
one of their own number, as appears
of record on the minutes. Our con-
temporary has repeated the story sew
eral times, connecting with it the edi-
tor of The Herald, understanding all
along that it was a falsehood, but
thinking it could take iab at the wri-
ter when it could not answer his argu-
ments.
If the Tribune had been wise it
would have made some jovial re
marks about the Council fiasco and
stopped the matter right there" But
as it has endeavored to make it ap-
pear that fagrantly disgraceful con-
duct was only 1.-The performance of a
plain duty" that it was pure patriot
ISM" and that it is common in every
state legislature in the Union, it will
only help 70 keep before the public
something which if it had sense or
decency it would wish to bury out of
sight and scent.
Has our vituperative and irrational
contemporary yet learned that personal
vilification of the editor of paper
forms no argument against his utter
ances, and no defence of other people
who are arraigned before the bar of
public opinion? Or is it so utterly
dense as to be blind to that simple
truth, and SO thoroughly brutal that it
cannot forego the qualification of an
endeavor to injure the individual when
it cannot overcome his position? Its
course would be vastly amusing if it
were not so contemptibly abusive.
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