The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-30

] good Nominations, Dur tney VIII ma
that after the Democratic convention
meets they will be face to face with
| such a fight as will bring out every
energy to enable them to win.
The supreme court ticket is regarded
as Iamentably weak and will not even
| receive the united support Of the Re
! publican members of the bar in this
city and other places. This important
| tribunal is to be made of men repre-
senting one element, one locality and
| personalities that have often been
criticised by the party papers.
| They Are Growing Wider.
At the end OF the convention dele
! gates Believed they had harmonized all
| differences between the factions. The
/ Crane men went out saying that they
| had been beaten and that they would
support the ticket. Crane himself
| said that he would do his best to Sc
cure the election of Wells. All this
was said while it was known that
| Wells had been the second choice of
! the Tribune, was virtually a Tribune
| candidate, and had consulted with the
! leaders of the Tribune ring and de-
lined his position to them before the
! chief booster of the Tribune took his
| candidacy in hand. 1t was known at
| the time that Wells had been put up
| by them as a fgurehead with the ex-
pectation that he would pull only
enough strength to defeat the nominal
ton of Crane on the first ballot and
give Thomas a chance to secure the
plum in the succeeding scramble. Yet
| they were willing to give in sufficiently
to the others to offer their services. In
! the face of this surprising attitude on
their part it was rather disturbing to
! have the following triple loaded, lead
ing editorial pean of joy:
A Savage Attack.
The Republican convention yesterday
INDICATED the. party and placed it all
There was great danger; it is passed
The machine was fabricated with the
chloride OF gold; the track was sanded
with mendacity, and on the down Grade
which it was hard to check. But the
convention put On the power brakes yes
terday and though the jar was severe,
the track was unharmed, and it will be
no trouble for the wrecking train to toss
| aside the debris, and leave all clear sail
ing for the regular express.
feels is ali tort for the party and for the
territory. If it has any thought of ex-
ultatfon, at all, it is not ore, which is
4bs e to any defeated ate ar ID Tss e
day ought, to teach to portion OF the
| press of this territory which for Doodle
has prostituted itself to champion
the cause of indecent men by foul
and false arrangements of decent men
and decent journals. The memory of what
has happened during the past few weeks
and of the elimination yesterday will be-
a good one to cherish for a long time to
come. The effort was to usher in the
new state corruptly. The effort was -
fraud, faisehood and Doodle to give the
first Offices of the state into machine
hands. The convention yesterday sat
down hard upon all that. 1t supplemented
nobly the work performed by the county
convention in this city last week: 1t
saved the Republican party from lgno-
minious defeat, for had the programme
carried, nothing but disaster could nave
followed. We congratulate the party; we
congratulate the territory: 1t was
superb victory; it shone bright in the
faces of Republicans last night, and the
background of the discounted Democ,
! racy made the tints OF me vlcto[y az al,
we hope will never have to be repeated
in Utah. The Tribune thanks the con-
vention.
What rafting of old bones. What
an invasion of the political Sepulcnre'
What an excursion up Salt river 10
rub saltpetre into the bleeding WOUNDS
of a defeated candidate. What an eX-
bibition of spleen, dictated by hate
that would not be satisfied even when
the victim had been slaughtered: what
a ghoulish rejoicing over fresh mace
tomb of political ambition.
! What an insult to the Republican
party.
Can it be possible that the leading
Republican paper of the territory the
organ of the nominees for governor,
CONGRESSMAN and secretary of state,
the special pleader for an opponent
who was accused of using dishonest
money in the conduct Of 'clean cam
paign," can have made such charge
against the man who, on the first test,
showed the greatest amount OF
strength of any man in the conven-
ton? Can it be possible that such IN
vective is used by a Republican paper
against the man who has fought for
the party when it's fight was hopeless,
using his own money and working like
slave until he had made his party
victorious in the territory?
Small Chance For Harmony.
There is now small chance for har-
mony. The Herald is no special
pleader for Charles Crane. 1t has
never said he was fit to be governor
of Utah. 1t has never said he would
be nominated; but merely announced
that appearances would indicate his
success But it could say with perfect
truth that there was no candidate be
fore the convention entitled to as great
rewards at the hands of the Republi-
cans as Crane. His strength came from
the counties south and north where 1t
is difficult to use Doodle. His strength
in Salt Lake came from the Oquirrh
club members, who were working to
defeat the Tribune.
When it charges fraud, Doodle and
corruption it's attack must hit Harry
McCallum and j. B. Bloor, of the
Oquirrh club; it must strike A. c. Bish-
CD, candidate for attorney general on
the Republican ticket; it must hit every
delegate from the country who voted
for Crane, some 200 in all, for they
were all working for him. The indict-
ment is serious.
More than that, it is resented. Crane
men who felt like holding out the olive
branch feel now that it would be
prostitution of their manhood to give
in to the faction which charges them
with fraud and corruption. Insults
sometimes become so strong that men
cannot afford to let them pass. They
cannot afford to ignore them. Such &C
ton would only make them plead guilty
to every charge brought against them.
The Crane men say that the Tribune
has at last capped the climax and that
it will be impossible for them to SUBJ
NIT without showing their contempt of
such an attack.
Republican State Committee.
The Republican state committee or
gained yesterday. George NJ. Cannon
was unanimously elected chairman,