The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-03
A CHARACTERISTIC LETTER.

The following letter was received on
Saturday at Democratic Headquarters:
LOGAN, Utah, Oct. 81, 1895.
Hon. o. w. Powers, Chairman Terri
torial Democratic Committee, Salt
Lake City, Utah:
Dear Sir-Your esteemed favor of
10Th inst. reached me yesterday too
late for reply by return mail. It seems
to me those great fundamental princi-
pies of free government bequeathed by
our ancestors should be perpetuated
and loyalty maintained without hest
fancy. The maintenance of those prln-
cipleS is above price and should be held
as sacred. they having been consecra-
ted in the blood of revolutionary SireS.
From the best informa ton up 10 date
of this writing I am led to conclude
that Cache county will vindicate the
integrity and honor of her citizens at
the polls on November 9Th, and that
by an increased majority. Thus lar
the Democratic campaign has been
conducted by you and your assistants
on a high plane by word and work,
honest, open and courageous, which
in itself, should be esteemed a suffi-
cient reward for all the efforts of the
party. And while joining with you-in
the hope that a large majority Of the
in like manner Vindicate their honor
and demonstrate our gratitude to the
Democratic party, which has not only
trusted US, but without hesitancy has
rendered to the people of Utah every
right enjoyed by a free people. Be that
as it may, defeat with honor IS better
than victory without it.
Wishing for success, along those
lines, not only for yourself, but to the
,,-Nwv II IN rnf-Nv 1sEa-
specially yours,
(Signed.) MOSES THATCHER.
The foregoing is characteristic of the
distinguished Democrat whom the
people of Utah delight to honor. He is
right. The citizens of this territory
should exhibit their gratitude to the
party which has made statehood posi-
BILE to them, by entering the Union as
a Democratic state. They should also
demonstrate to the country, by that
means, that they are not under any
ecclesiastical yoke, but are free peo-
pie, fit to exercise the powers and en-
joy the privileges of a state govern
ment. The sentiment at the close
of the letter will, we are sure, be
shared by every Democrat. Defeat
with honor is better than victory
without it" But there should be no
defeat and there will be none if every
Democrat in Utah performs his duty
on Tuesday. This time there must be
no delinquency. No excuse will be
sufficient for the neglect to vote for
freedom and right on that momentous
occasion. And if there is needed an
additional incentive to action it should
be found in the fact that vote for
the Democratic ticket means a vote
for the writer of the foregoing letter.
How could Utah be better represented
in the Senate of the United States than
she will be when Hons. Moses Thatcher
and Joseph L. Rawlins take their seats
in that august assembly, the grandest
legislative body on the earth? We
cannot believe that the people Of Utah
will be so blind to their own interests
and the merits of those able men as
to leave the matter of the Senatorship
in doubt. as it will be unless the Demo
cratic legislative ticket receives that
majority which is hoped for by thous-
ands of disinterested patriots, as well
as by strong partisans and by our
much esteemed fellow citizen, Hon.
Moses Thatcher.