The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-25
WHERE IS THE CORRUPTION,

The people of Utah should note well
the significant fact that all the warn
ings against intended corruption. hood
ling and bribery, as likely to be at
| tempted with promise of success, have
come from Republican sources in refer
ence to Republican candidates and to
possible Republican recipients. The
danger, if any there be, lies within the
ranks of the local Republican party
If money is being brought into this ter
ritory to be used for the purpose of
accomplishing party ends, that money
is Republican money. The people who
are accused of using it are Republicans.
The people who are expected to be
bought with it are Republicans voters.
The source from whence the charges
of this intended corruption have come
is a Republican source. The accusers
ought to know whereof they speak.
They should know their own party and
its methods best.
1t would indeed be disgraceful to the
new state of Utah if it should enter the
Union as a rotten borough. To be
branded with such title would stand
to its ineffacable and everlasting infa-
my, and if it should be represented in
the Upper House of Congress by tool
Of corporations noted for their greed
and tyranny and their endeaVors to
dominate in the legislation of our COM
mon country, it would not only deserve
all the reproach that would bring upon
it but the misery which would surely
come from being itself under the heel
Of the money power.
The only path of safety for the new
state is within the lines of the Demo-
cratic party. Elect Democrats to the
legislature which will elect the first
United States Senators from Utah, and
the danger will be averted. There is
no breath of scandal of this kind in
reference to the Democrats of this ter
ritory. There is rot a whisper of sus-
picion that corrupt means will be re-
sorted to accomplish Democratic pur-
poses.
All that the enemy can allege in ref
erence to Democrats in the coming
campaign is that certain individuals
have ambitions and that they are work.
ing up interest in their own favor
Even supposing that were true, the
very same personal influences are at
work within the Republican camp.
There is no need for Democrats to point
them out. The respective organs of
the respective candidates tell the tale
themselves. The harmony existing in
the Republican party is of the kind for
which Donnybrook Fair has been famed
throughout the world.
The truth is that while there may be
individual aspirations, which is only
natural in view of the conditions exist
ing, the Democratic party of Utah is
united and full of faith in a glorious
victory at the coming election. 1t has
no money for bribery. It has no hood
lers to use corrupt means and none to
receive them if they were used. 1t
goes before the people on principle Its
candidates will stand on their merits.
Let the people of Utah anew calmly the
situation and decide whether Utah
shall go into the Union under the sus-
piciou of being a purchased common
wealth subject to Republican boodling,
or as a free and independent state nu-
der the influence of Democratic prin-
ciples, in the interest of the people
to promote a government Of the people.
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