The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-07-23
JULY %. 1895
PROVO CITY.
ON THE WATCH TO WEIR.

The Tribune is a republican paper.
However that fact has been rather
seriously denied by few, or rather, a
good many of the stock republican
sheets of Utah; but be this as it may.
it seems to know a good deal about the
corruphons and dishonest practices of
that party, and it seems at least to
have grown very tired of them. We
know it has been said by the other re-
publican papers, that the Tribune's
distress comes more from its fear of
the success of the Crane-Trumbo clique
than from the enormous corruption it
sees ahead in the coming campaign. We
do not know, neither do we care how
this is, it is enough for US to have
these corrupt things pointed out to US
so plainly, by a competent and per-
fectIy reliable republican authority.
The corruption exists and has become
plain to all and the only wonder is that
other equally respectable republican
papers do not join with the Tribune in
condemning the evil practices of
Messrs. Crane and Trumbo. Why do
they not do this? Is it because they
are with Crane and Trumbo? Or is it
because they have secured their own
consent to see corruption prevail
simply that they may deal the Tri.
bune a blow in the fifth rib, beeaus e
of it's arrogance and self conceit?
Surely, surely, if they are honestly re-
publican in political sentiment they
should not for moment stand by and see
such battle for the publication of their
party fought out and won by the Tri-
bune alone. We are dealing only with
the fact of the existence of the corrup-
ton as charged. We regard the Trl-
bune as very fair authority and we ac-
cept it. We can say to the republi-
can papers, foes of the Tribune,
that corruption is bad medicine
for the party and if they have
any regard for its longevity
and future success in Utah they must
join forces with the Tribune and as
sist in stamping it out, no matter how
much they hate the lordly organ at
Salt Lake,
1t is enough for the cleanly people of
Utah to know that here on the very
eve of statehood the republican party
intend, if possible, to elect at least one
senator by the wicked use of money
which will bind him and ultimately
the state to the car-wheels of great
railway corporation, and her first
governor by the merest of political
trickery which is in and of itself as
bad as the corruption charged by the
Tribune. The great thing is the ex-
istence of this corruption in the re-
publican party. Do the people doubt
it? If so what better authority can
they hope to have on the subject than
that of the leading republican paper,
if not the official organ of the party {?
1t is paper of magnificent ability too.
1t knows well what it is talking about.
too. The fact is there has been go far
but slight yell thrown over the work
fngs Of this corrupt compact. He who
cares to may read as he runs, The
people all see it and only the Tribune
is bold enough to condemn it in sting
ing and unmistakeable words.
The Tribune's object is to put the
party in position where it may hore
for future victories rather than to see
it win one solitary triumph of or
ganizIng the first state administration.
Its love for Crane and Trumbo is not
sufficiently fervid to see the party
sacrifice all the chances for the future
just that they, these two, may score a
single triumph at the start. The
Tribune knows the ground we'll and it
is not deferred by that knowledge from
bringing the gravest charges against
these two men land inferentially against
the great body Of the republican party
at the sametime. The arches are
ringing and the battle has only Just |
begun.