The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-08-02
CRANES RETIREMENT.

The patriotic republican papers OF
Utah are now chewing the proposition
as to whether the enforced retirement
of Crane has strengthened or weak
ened the chances of that party for the
campaign which is on. Of course the
Tribune agrees that it will, but what
vastly astonishes us is that the Stand
ard falls in with the suggestion. The
editor of the Tribuneis man of age
and experience, but it is not to be fol-
gotten that he was the artist Of the re-
tiring act and Uf course must stand by
his work, but the editor of the Stand
ard is young man and younger
journalist and was from the very first
a thick and thin Crane man. For these
reasons we can see no reason for the
conclusion the Standard has arrived at
save that it is just possible that it is
lame attempt to deceive the masses of
the republican party and lead them to
the conclusion that they are all agreed,
when the truth is that they know that
the old irritation is still raw and is
liable to break out anew upon the first
propagation. A man does not receive
such castlgation as Charles Crane re-
ceived at the hands Of the Tribune
and then come back like whipped
puppy to lick the hand which pun
ished him, nor do his friends rally in
dense masses TO sing the praises Of the
paper which drove their idol into re-
tirement.
Deny it. cover it up and explain all
they have a mind to, and the bald fact
still remains that the friends Of Mr..
Crane aud Mr.. Crane himself are not
in the best humor Imaginable. We
will all see this very clearly when the
republican state convention fails to
nominate Crane for the governorship,
as it certainly Will fail. Mr.. Crane is
an Z old frontierSman with rather
ldsty resentments as is meet
and proper and he does not
manifest very great degree of that
turn-the-other-Che virtue which In
dicates the meek and humble political
christian. He has been badly treated
and he is not OF that sort who craWlS
off wounded and glorles in his own de-
feat and the triumph of his enemies.
If we cared to hazard an opinion we
should say that he has his butcher
knife well sharpened to punish the
Standard for the vast stacks of har-
mony it has gathered at his expense
with SO little waste of time.
Let the thing go as it will with
Crane and the Standard, the Tribune
will never, after this, be able to toler-
ate Crane as a republican nominee for
anything, because that would be tant-
amount to an acQuiescence in the organ
ship Of the Standard. The very ex-
ceedingly harmonious Tribune could
never tolerate that and 1t will never
even think of it without a fit of the
horrors. The fact is that the repubh-
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loaded to the gunwales with distress,
bitterness and unrest which the 2Sth
of August can never assusge in the
world. 1t is pity for the patriots but
they made the situation for themselves
without consulting the democrats, and
we feel no responsibility for the woes
coming to them from this source.
The gnashing of teeth will go on and
the spirit raised by the great declining
act will add to their load of bitterness
with every passing hour. IT'S human
nature and especially political nature
which will csuse this increase of bit.
'erness. Let it grow. But for all that
f this breach can by any amount of
charity be healed, there re.
mains the Trumbo matter which is
it'll worse and it will remain and
plague them up to the day of the elec |
ion in November.