The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-25
POLITICAL NOTES.

POLITICAL NOTES.
The largely attended farmers meetings
! now being held throughout the state have
a certain educative value. While the ex-
are given patient hearing, representa-
tive speakers of the great parties are
accredited teachers of political economy
and the higher politics are listened to
with close attention. All possible sides
of public questions are presented in this
woods forum. = Philadelphia Ledger
(Rep.).
Such meetings should have very bene-
fetal effect upon the farmers, especially
when the speakers are men of promi-
nence and recognized ability. Political
views at such meetings will usually be
presented IN a fair spirit and will have
much greater weight in consequence.
Major McKinleE's talk about the work
of "a monstrous trust in making the
new tariff is monstrous hypocrisy
Hartford Times.
Now. that is putting it rather strong.
Mckinley is an authority not only upon
trusts but upon tariffs. His wide expert
ence has taught him that the trusts con-
trolled the tariff legislation with which he
was connected and he naturally enough
concludes that ii is so IN all cases. He
doesn't know that the Democratic way is
different from the Mckinley way.-Cleve-
Major McKinley's light is hid under the
bushel of the trusts, and it is not to
be expected that he will see beyond 1t.
The loss of New York state to the De-
mocracy this year would put the Demo
cratic party in hopeless minority That
party has two parts. the solid South and
New York. With either gone all would
be lost. 1t is long time since the state
has beer really and fully Republican. In
1888 its electoral vote was given to Har
ricon and Morton. but that was very
largely due to the interchangeable and thor
ough work of Chairman Quay. The state
has never really recovered from the
shock of 1888, when Grover Cleveland was
elected governor over Secretary Folger.-
Chicago Inter-Ocean Rep.).
The Inter-Ocean, like a great many
other Republican papers, forgets that the
Democratic party would have elected Mr..
Cleveland in 1892 without the vote of
New York. But New York is not lost
to the Democracy and will not be.
The Central Labor union, of Boston,
which stands for the organized labor of
that city, held meeting few days ago
and denounced emo nc 10Th the A. de with
its aim was. to start religious war
among organized labor, and in this way
make Of little account all efforts to adj
vance the cause of labor through organ
lied work. This is the exact truth. The
A. p. A. breaches that workingmen of
a certain religious faith should be de-
prived of the privilege of working for a
living, and denied employment. If this
principle is not at war with everything
like united effort by the trades we are
very much in error.-Plttsburg Post
Oen.)
The great trouble with this principle is
that it is at war with the very fundamen-
tai ideas of American liberty.
Commenting on the platform of the
New York Republicans, the Chicago Her
aid Qnd.) says:
Proceeding to "arraign' the Democrat
ic party, the platform says: 'Denounc-
ing trusts, it permitted one of them to
formulate its tariff BILL The trust re-
ferred to is the Sugar trust, of course.
The Democratic party was forced by the
Republican senators in solid array, aided
by few renegades on the Democratic
side, to make some concessions to that
trust. But the concession made was one
third less than was made to the same
trust by the Mckinley Congress in 1890.
The Republican party, in the act of ar
ralgnlng the Democrats for favor1ng the
Sugar trust, is an interesting spectacle.
That the Republican senators are the
steadfast friends of the trusts and mo-
ncpolies was evidenced by the fact that
they voted solidly against what were
termed the 'pop-gun'' bills.
The Republicans of Nevada are quite
right in calling for the resignation of
Senator Jones. Their argument is ire
sistible. A political party, as they point
out, is definite organization, sustained
for the purpose of administering or at
tempting TO administer the government
according to its principles, When man
is elected to an important office by that
party, 1t is his duty, not to be avoided If
he is an honorable man. to act with the
party.-St. Paul Pioneer Press (Rep).
Senator Jones has been waiting and
waiting for the Republicans to act on
silver and their refusal to do so caused
him TO take the action he did For him
to resign would be anti-Republcanism of
the most pronounced type.
Commenting on the denomination of
Hon. John c. Tarsney for Congress in
the Fifth Missouri district, the Kansas
City Times Oem.) says:
The reelection of Democrat to Con-
gress is not a question simply of the
election OF Democrat from the Fifth
district of Missouri, but one vastly more
important; that it applies with equal
1orce 10 every Democratic district in the
the Democratic party in control of the
Federal government until all the reforms
TO winch the party is pledged by its
pleted.
The continuance of the Democratic
party in power is the great thing. There !
is work to be done for the people yet !
and 1t can only be done by the Demo- |
cratic party.
Tammany cannot be beaten in New |