The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-07-27
PROVO CITY. JUL,
HETRIBUNE'S CAMPAIGN.

OF crazy QullG pOllUlcS the tribune
is peculiar, peculiarly ridiculous in
deed. Its fall campaign commenced
when it welcomed the industrials with
bloody hands to hospitable graves on
the western boundaries of Utah.
That line of policy continued just
three days. But those three days were
jammed full of devotion to the law its
ministers, judges, and even its
msrshals, deputies and policemen.
All at once its weather vsne pointed in
another direction and Judges Smith
and Merritt became legal highway
men or something worse. The air was
filled with the insane rawlings of the
Tribune for their impeachment, Even
the dreadful communistic, socialistic,
nihilistic and anarchistic' wealers grew
In a single night to the stature of full
blown patriots of the Washington
order. The sun of another day went
down with this policy nailed to the
Tribune's outer wall banner pole, but
before the sun set on that night the
dear old Trib. was again in doubt and
in that condition it remains until this
blessed moment.
1t doesn't now know if it is for free
silver or not. 1t is doing a two horse
acL on the white money metal of the
ages, but the horses are going in op-
pOsite directions, and just how long
the agile Trib. will be able to main
tain its footing, its own dear self can
not tell. To do it simple justice it has
prated so long for free and unlimited
coinage that it really began to believe
in the doctrine, but along came the re-
publican leagues convention and now
the harmless old prattler doesn't
know what its own real sentiments are
on silver or anything else. The shad-
ows which fit across the face of the
moon are not more fieeting and transi-
tory than are the deep ~ underlying
sentiments of this great modern repub
lican newspaper, erstwhiIe aYenger of
the wrongs done to the gentiles by the
then accursed Mormons. Today some
of the proudest names in the Mormon
church membership are included In the
Trib's list Of especial and devoted
friends. 1t hugs them, metaRhorically
the Trib. is great on meraphor-Once
in every twenty-fOur hours aad if 1t
doesn't get in its little embrace for
that lapse of time the paper from
devil to leading editor, is in despair.
The old hero of unrest, now that the
evil days have come upon him, wants
rest and peace and there is no peace
and less rest for him. The priest OF
of unrest and of strife cannot now crawl
of in the cool shades and escape the
consequences of his course throughout
a long series of years of actiye war
fare against the dominant people of
Utah. This is, or would be, nothing to
US, if it did not impinge upon politics,
partisan politics at that. We are frank
about this matter; our object is to in
duce the people to pause and think if
their happiness for the future is likely
to be subserVed best by an influence
always openly and brsvely hostile, or
by an influence always friendly and al
ways true to the people. The Tribune
has little identity as Utah paper out
side of its history of unres trained, ac-
tive and able hostility to the Mormon
people. 1t has never been peace maker.
On the contrary it has ever been
8 strife stirrer.
Now let Utah voters, let the pc aceful
people Of the territory say if they pre-
fer to follow its couHsels or those Of its
lifelong, steady aud consistent frie nds.
We know what would be the rational
course to pursue, but of course we do
not know what the people will do abso-
lutely. We do know what they ought
to do, and that is repudiate the party
of which this malign newspaper has
been, by unanimous consent, chosen
the mouthpiece and organ.