The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-22
THE SALT LAKEiHERALDs THURSDAY. AUGUST ss, 1896.

send your hoy with it? Out with such
''clean politics" and square deal!
Start the clean politics by giving US
clean journalism, and not by writing
fake articles upon fake states that
never had an existence except in the
brain of the editor and then palming
them Off as coming from good poll
ticians of any kind or signing them
with non de plume that means moth
ing but editor-in-chief.
Tribune Dark Horses.
Star: There is only one hope
left the Tribune clique in their
efforts to nominate Thomas for
governor, and that one hope
is to divide the delegates by advo-
eating dark horses and then make an
united but secret effort to stampede
the factions in favor of Thomas. 1t
would mean disaster to the party to
have such unparliamentary tricks
played and would defeat the expressed
will of the people. In every portion Of
the territory there was q square fight
made between the Crane and Thomas
men, and in every instance the voters
have declared for Crane, and for polit-
ical tricksters and hypocrites to inter
fere, and by the use of dark horses
accomplish the nomination of a weak
ling, would surely result in the defeat
of the ticket.
The delegates can take it for granted
that every dark horse is simply put
forth as a subterfuge to accomplish the
Tribune's ends, and that, in addition,
those who lend their names for that
purpose will be basely deceived by the
clique, who will use them as catpaWs
TO pull the chestnuts out of the fire
If the Tribune clique are DESTROYS of
square deal, why not be honorab BILE
enough to openly oppose Charles Crane
IN convention and stand or fall by
Their man Thomas? Why? Because
they realize that at the primaries Mon
day, the voters in no uncertain tones,
repudiated their nominee and declared
against any man being nominated who
might be backed by that ring or holden
to its bidding. Let the voice of the
rank and file of the rErty be needed!
Of course, every county has some
local favorite, whom its delegation
would be pleased to see governor, but
when cognizant of the utter impossi-
bility Of having their man nominated
they would do themselves and their
constituents great injustice by advo-
eating such forlorn hopes, whereby
they are abetting and promoting the
best interests of the Tribune clique
the most corrupt, despicable, domineer-
ing, scheming ring in the politics If
this territory.
ChaS. Ellis Attacks Crane.
The following extract from a letter
in the last issue of the Intermountain
Advocate, signed by Charles Ellis, is
interesting:
[ do not seek any controversy with
you over Charles Crane, but [ wish you
to make a correction in your reference,
last week, to my relations to the per-
son.
You say, For some months he my
SELF has been doing what he could to
boom Crane" The facts are that on
the 9th Of June Mr. Crane wrote me.
urgently requesting me to call on him.
Two days later L called. The matter
OF doing literary work for him was pre-
sented. L named my terms; he stated
his almost inpecunious condition, and
there was no engagement But, be-
llevlng in Mr.. Crane as a capable and
honest man and a patriot, I wrote a
number of short articles favoring his
candldacy, without attacking any other
candidate, and gave them to him as
contribution. The letter to the Pom
ulists, which you published, was one of
those articles. Mr.. Crane sent it to
you. Had he acknowledged that fact
1 should not have changed my mind
as to his fitness for the governorship of
Utah, even though he did not thank
me for the work. But when a man
shows himself to be both an Migrate
and a liar, he is, in my mind. an I'M
safe man to trust in office Hence. I
not only wrote to the Star CMr. Cranes
orgaD, telling the truth in regard to
the Populist letter referred to above.
but I wrote you stating the same facts
and also that Mr.. Crane had sun,
pressed my letter to the Star Then
told you at your desk that Mr. Crane
had asked me to write for him: that
l had named my terms; that he was
unable to meet them, and that I then
gave him several articles, the one he
sent you being among them. There
was no disagreement" as you aver
You have conveyed the impression in
your paper Of last week that this mat.
ter was something you had ferreted
out, and so you use it against me. when
the fact is L gave you the information
myself. You seem to think it was a
mlsdemeanor in me to ask $50 per week
to edit a dozen papers. That is onIv
S4.l6 per week for each paper. Don't
you get more than that for your work9