The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-08-23
AUG. %, 1894
PRovoCITY.
A NEW DISCOVERY.


Yesterday morning the Tribune dis
covered-rather made series OF die
coveries anent Joe. Rswlins' vast
turpitude in the matter of the double
registration necessary this fall. 1t is
all broken up. 1t is deeply wounded
in its tenderest affections. 1t has
smiled on Rawlins. 1t has patted him
on the shoulder approvingly. But when
it comes to that double registration it
cannot pass the gulf. 1t draws the
line there. That is sin in the eyes of
the Tribune, too black, too inky black,
and it tearfully withdrsws the light of
its approval from Joe. Rawlins. 1t
rather fears that Rawlins and the DEM
ocratic party had some dreadfully
wicked purpose of applying two regis
trations to the republicans and only
one to the democrats or visa versa, but
we'll be hanged entirely if we can make
out which. We only know that the
poor trem bling Tribune has received a
shock, q shock from Joe. Rawlins'
deep, black, unrelieved turpitude, and
that it mourns as do those mourn who
have lost their faith In the pure and
the good. All the soft soap and tafy
wasted upon RawlIns is gone, ever
lastingly gone, and the widowed Tri-
bune is the blasted oak of our new
state. All new states must have
blasted oaks in their business. This
will do very well in that way for want
of better.
When Rawlins drew up that double
registration he doubtless imagined
that he was pennlng very innocent
sort of a document. The Tribune
thought 30 too, at the time, Judging
from the way it writ of the document
In its own columns. Time flies and
with it recedes the Tribune's conf
dence in this tribune of the people.
What q pityl What mighty sever
ance is represented herel How often
hast the Tribune gathered poor ice.
under its wings? But to be outraged
in its motherly feeling by this double
registration which applies to all
equally impartially, both democrats
and republicans, is just too internally
bad for anything.
Ahl but it is intended to "shut cut q
great many republicans who had not
w. the time-@atWelEe
ton" But there is never the faintest
resemblance of a wall for those poor
democrats who had not been here
twelve month when registering. This
sauce was intended only for the repub.
lican geese, not for the democratic
granders. What horrible discrimina.
tionl How cruell How wickedl How
stepped in sin is Joe. Rawlinsl 5ut
perhaps this thing was too dirty, too
deep, too partisan for Rawlins to get it
up himself and it must have been got
ten up here and sent across the contin
ent to that innocent lamb. Just where
the democratic party advantage comes
in none but the republicans can see.
1t is concealed from tie babes and
suckIings it seems and revealed only to
the wise-and there are none wise, no
not one, save the Tribune.
"Petty larceny party advantage" is
new and neat way of putting it. 1t
almost equals, or would equal, ifit |
we're true, that other party advantage |
when Smith and Mer-
ritt's impeachment was SO loudly
ca led for a few months since. "To
The guilty minded, trifles light as air are
as strong as proofs of holy writ" A
very small amount of proof only, it
seems, is quite sufficient to wipe out
all the Tribune's wonderful confidence
in RswlIns. Yea, even its painting
ambition for statehood and the train
of advantages to come to us from this
source. The great comfort the Tri-
oune finds in all this is, that aftc T
awhile the people viii become tired OF
III this and demand square deal, We
ire deeply distressed because our great
will not be comforted.
rhe iron has entered its soul and sack
10th and ashes are piled up mountains
Ugh all over the Tribune. 1t is sad to
'e thus cut off in the full tide of an in
locent and lofty career by Joe. Raw
ms trickery.
The handwriting on the wall is be-
ng ciphered out and Interpretation is
all and wormwood to the patriots
nd the Tribune is only hunting for /
to kick at. This is the first
hing that comes to hand and hence
igorous use it makes of the bit of
hildish objection it stumbles upon.