The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-11

Talk of dissension among the Demo-
Gratis. Why, compared with the Re-
publicans, they are as peaceful as a
boarding school out for walk If
The other side could onfy have an ap-
proach to such harmony they would
be overjoyed. Already those who
have the campaign of the other side
I'd charge are beginning TO wonder
how on earth they will ever be able
TO bring the warning factions to-
gether and get them to work in haT
mony. a. the outset it has been
found that party differences have only
been accentuated by the developments
CT the convention and that many of
.Ahosc who had a passive hostility to-
yard one another, which they would
sink in the face of the common en-
envy. ere determined l every occa-
sion TO knife one another and il nee
essary to go against the good Of the
party in doing SO.
One Of the Republican leaders. very
much higher up in the machine than
the people might suppose. was talking
rather bluely yesterday. Talk OF
don't know what we've got to con
front. We are about to organize, and
the party is all split to pieces. The
quarrels cannot be made up either.
Men refuse 10 serve with one another
on committees or work alongside in
any capacity. If you go to one for
counsel on some matter of party pol
icy, the other becomes disgruntled
and refuses to have anything to do
with the matter.
More than that. the Democrats
can have no object in kicking about
newspaper support. Why. we don't
know what it is to have an organ.
The Tribune is determined to have
some men in the offices on whom it
can depend for the public patronage.
1t was driven out of the Liberal party
because it could no longer control,
and then it came over to the Repub-
licanS in the firm belief that it could
have everything. Already we have
been given constructive warning that
unless we obey its behests il will
kick over the traces this fall and en-
deavor to defeat the ticket Look
at its editorial this morning. 1t man
nfactured a letter from a friend in
order to let us know that 1t is Re
publican paper, but it is an indepen-
dent Republican paper OF course
we all know what that means. 1t is
for the Republican party so long as
Ahe party belongs 10 the Tribune.
~ if the part! should refuse 10
niaate the I-ibune's candidates
Men it Will take a high and mighty
stand. 1t VIII make a great claim of
independence and knife the ticket.
Il tell you it would be godsend to
us if we only had as good newspaper
support as The Herald is giving the
Democrats. You always find The
Herald sticking up for the party You
can put your hand upon it at any
time and depend on it. But hang the
Tribune. We can never tell when it
will get cranky and go off on tan
gent When il does of course we
have to apologize and repudiate it.
we are without an organ, while the
Democrats have a good one. Their
kicking is all bosh."
There is a great deal of talk in pc
1itical circles of a non-partisan jul
~dicial ticket in this district. This does
hot come from the Democrats alone.
but from the best element Of the Re
publican members of the bar This
early il The campaign the leaders
have been casting about for some
suitable timber for the bench and
right in the beginning have been met
with an appalling condition. The best
timber by far is 10 be found in the
Democratic ranks The luXuriant
crop Of Republican candidates who
are already coming to the front with
their oft-repeated claims on spoils are
not of the best. In fact, they are
somewhat inclined to disgust even
the blindest partisan. The proposition
now is that the Democrats be given
one If the judges, while the Republi-
cans be given the other two.
But this scheme is likely to meet
with but little success. Utah politics
are very queer. Probably no state in
the union has seen such bitter polit-
ical fights as have been known here
/ In the last three years. As result,
Ma territory is afflicted with the
gorst kind of yellow dog" politics
This is particularly true of the Repub-
lican party. All propositions for non
partisan elections that have been
made in recent times have been turn
ed down by them with the utmost
on their side that they have put up
a very strong class of men in the
past. In fact, they are. really to ac-
knowledge that the Democrats have
outcla ssed them on general principles.
But they know that the mass of their
voters, especially in Salt Lake
county. have had party fealty
absolutely ground into them. The
decent element is not in control. The
machine is controlled by the most
ardent and extreme politicians in the
party. It would be impossible for
them to resist the appeals of the
hungry officeholders who are after the
ernine. Therefore non-partisan ju-
dicial elections in this county are
practically an irridescent dream.
Republican judicial candidates are
beeaming so thick that man can
scarcely place his finger on a lawyer
of 2. certain class without finding he
harbors a suspicion that he was cut out
for lust such a job as this. The best
LAWYERS in the party are either reach
ing for something higher than the dis
4rict bench or cannot afford to give up
their practice to take the situation at
such a small salary as has been pro-
AIDED for in the constitution. The
strongest pressure has been brought
no bear on young George Sutherland.
The Democrats feel we'll towards him
and would hail his acceptance with
sigh of relief. because his election
would save them from being afflicted
with some of ,she horde who are push
ing 30 the front But Sutherland
seems inclined to push the ermine
aside, that is, unless he should be Of
fered the supreme judgeship. when. of
course, he would be very likely to at
least take the matter under consider