The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-29
1IHELs AND SANDERS.

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SHAMEFUL LIBELs AND SANDERS.
After abusing the majority of the
members of the Utah Commission, and
especially Chairman Letcher, by IL
bellous cartoons, defamatory charges
and abusive epithets, the organ of SLAM
der known as the Salt Lake Tribune
! has the impudence to state that it has
! done nothing of the kind, and that it
| has made no attempt to vilify, mis-
represent or libel these Utah Commits
sioners" but ''has given their motives
the benefit of every doubt Also that
! it has done nothing personally against
Chairman Letcher. What is the Tri-
bune afraid of that it makes this pal
pably. false defence?
The files of that paper form it's own
accusers. 1t will be interesting in this
connection to refer to few of it's ut
! terances.
| We viii not just now go further back
than five or six weeks. The following
are taken from its editorial columns.
We will not now dip into its local sour
rilities and have not space to spare for
all Of the others:
I'VE beg to say to the majority of
the Utah Commission that the scheme
to defeat the will of the people of this
| Territory will not succeed"
Better retrace your steps, gentle
men, and save your credit while you
can. The Kentucky and Mississippi
programme viii not do in Utah.
at is too big a task, gentlemen of
the Utah Commission, to try to carry
out the scheme of your party leaders.
Fifteen delegates out of sixty-one are
too many to try to steal. 1t only lacks
one of being % per cent. You have got
ten away with three, but you will have
| to change five more from the Republi-
can to the Democratic column in order
to secure a majority and that will be
too gigantic and transparent a steal"-
Tribune, December 10 1894.
But fifteen delegates out of one
hundred and seven are too many to
steal, and we caution the majority of
the Utah Commission to go very slowly
if they would save the remnant of the
reputation that is left them."-Ibid
December L. 1894
In long editorial on December H.
1894, the attempt was made to connect
the majority of the Utah Commission
with a conspiracy which, it was
charged, it endeavored to carry out,
for the purpose Of counting out a ma
jority of the duly elected delegates to
the Constitutional Convention;" that
they had spent about a month in try
ing to defeat the will Of the people,"
and the conclusion was reached in re-
gard to those gentlemen that:
eff the desire from the very start had
been to carry the territory If necessary
by fraud, no more subtle plan could
have been devised, no more Conclusive
evidence to commit fraud, or a dispo-
sition to commit fraud would have been
marked out"
Again:
every day the indications thicken
that it is the intention and has been
from the first, to count out enough Re
publicans to give the majority to the
Democracy.
What are the people going to do
about it? They have watched
the comedy of pretending to canvass
votes for nearly a month now, and have
seen the eXertion made to count out
men who were elected beyond doubt,
and to count in men whom no one be-
lieves ever were elected. December
10, 1894.
During the last week this paper has
had to be a thorn, in the side of the
Utah Commission. december II.
1--WE tell the Commission to go slow
ly. We tell them that the methods of
Mississippi and Kentucky will not be
submitted to in Utah. We tell them
they are walking on the crust of
volcano, and that the crust is exceed
ingfy thin
We tell them further that if they
are determined to pursue the course
which they have been pursuing they
had better extend it Indefinitely and
count out all the Republican delegates,
because what is the use of making
two bites to a cherry? And we are
justified in saying this to those men
because we believe they have violated
the law-"-December 20.
TT is not strange then that there
has been and is direct attempt to steal
Utah. The gentlemen engaged in that
work understand thoroughly that no
matter what they do, they will be en-
dorsed and defended by a portion. at
least Of their party and their party
press. The only mistake they made
was that first, they appointed some
honest Democrats to be Judges of cleo
ton, and second that they oyerdfd
Things when the process of tampering
with the ballot boxes was begun.
December q.
In lame attempt to reply to the
demand of The Herald, IF the Com
mission is doing anything wrong tell
us what it is. If they are doing any,
thing criminal prosecute them. If not
cease injuring the territory by echoing
base and evil suspicious the follow
ing occurs in the Tribune:
1.-THE steps in the conspiracy are too
plainly marked. They began when the
Governor vetoed the bill abolishing
the Commission. Another step was
when it determined to have a double
registration in Utah. At the same time
the Utah Commission was changed
from what it was originally intended to
be, a non-partisan board, to a mere
partisan machine. The next stem was
in the appointment of county regis
trars every one of whom belonged to
the Democratic party. The next was
in being careful to warn all Democrats
they must register twice and to keep
still about that fact to the Republi-
cans. There has not been a break in