The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-05-09
PROVO CITY. Ma
DEMOCRATIC LIFE.

w Z nave dg labG our new c0QEtltu-
tion framed. 1t is in the main a good
one, worthy OF the support of all the
people, because, if faithfully obeyed
and guarded, it will tend 10 develop in
Utah, pride in the state, patriotism,
and to guard the interests Of all classes
of people, of all pursuits and of all
shades of political and religious opin-
ions impartially. From a democratic
standpoint of observation il deserves
to be elected because ii Will serve these
high purposes and also because al
though there was republican major
ity in the convention, yet the result is
not disadvantageous to our party in
terests. That it will be so elected
there can now be no doubt, and in this
connection we are only interested in
securing a democratic administration
to inaugurate 1t, and apply the benign
principles of democracy to the task of
forming the earliest state policy under
this most admirable constitution.
Hence it is that we deem the policy
Of the Herald in regard to its ruthless
attempt to arouse bad feeling in dem
ocratic ranks now, as most wicked and
talthless from party point of view.
There was not the slightest necessity
or propagation for Mr.. Dininny's
letter, and after it was written there
was still less excuse for It's publication
especially in the columns of the
leading democratic paper of the terri
tory. Its writing and its publication
we're both admirably calculated to stir
up strife among the democrats and no
other political party in Utah, and just
why the Herald wished such conflict.
as democrat, we cannot possibly see.
1t is inexplicsble upon any other
theory than that Mr.. Dininny was, for
reasons best known to himself,
after the scalp-locks of the leaders
of the church; and the Herald, for
reasons only known to Itself, was intent
only upon defending the said leaders of
the church. If the Herald were only,
or principally a church paper. the
course it pursued would have been the
correct one, but being only a party
paper, only democratic organ, it had
no more business to take up the cudgels
for the church leaders than it has to
O 10 f,a
moon, especially after the severe and
cruel drubbing and most contemptuous
treatment its editor has received at
the hands Of the church organ repeat
edly within the last few months. 1t
really seems that that individual can
not be choked off from the official re-
lations to the church which, as editor
of its organ, he once enjoyed, any
more than he can be indicted into the
duties pertaining to his present posi-
ton of editor of the democratic organ
Of the party in Utah.
Mr.. Dininny made the charge that
Mr.. Cannon favored and labored for
the election of the republican candi-
date for congress, using his high posi-
tion in the church as an adjunct to the
fight, and most potent one at that. |
AS the democratic organ the Herald |
rushes to Mr.. Cannon's defense, and |
while defending him assails Mr.. Di-
ninny s&Vagely. 1t was effective work,
but sfter all, was 1t just the work which |
the democratic organ should have done, |
especially from a non-church stand |
point2 While wholesome for Mr., Can |
non and his church this defense by the |
leading democratic paper in Utah has |
not contributed to the preservation of |
the democratic life, which latter |
should be to it, as democratic organ,
its chief concern. "Ye cannot serve
God and Mammon" was never truer
than in this instance. Ye cannot
serve the church, any church, and the
democracy (Mammon if you please at
the same time. The whole attack and
most unfortunate defense while it
hasn't injured the church sppreciably
has cruelty injured the democratic
party and endangered It's life by stir.
ring up strife and bitterness, where the
organ should have given US peace and
harmony by refusing the publication
Of DininnV's screed