The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-18
SENATORIAL CANDIDATES.

Democrats who are considered to be
candidates for senatorial honors; some
have announced themselves as .candi-
dates. some have not. We deem it a
/ pleasure to know them all, and there
is not one of them who, if chosen by
| the legislature to the high position,
will not be worthy of the honor con-
ferred, and represent the state ably.
Not so thinks an evening contem-
porary. 1t declares that most of them
! display an utter absence of qualifica-
tons for the place. People will differ
as to what constitute proper qualifi-
cations for a senator. Had our con-
| temporary specified what they are.
people would have been enabled to
judge whether the gentlemen who are
being named as probable candidates
are displaying an utter absence of
them.
Members-elect of the legislature are
urged to avoid committing them
selves" AS the members are all of
age and Of sound mind and disposing
memory, this admonition, this urging
is scarcely necessary. Even if they
were to commit themselves it would be
/ neither a cardinal nor venial sin.
Members-elect will scarcely feel it in
/ cumbent upon them to seek the advice
of our contemporary whether they
shall or shall not commit themselves,
nor when. how or to whom they shall
commit themselves.
Our contemporary lashes itself into
such fury that one is almost forced
to the conclusion that it has a can
didate of its own, and that modesty
alone forbids it to mention his name.
But modesty adorns a great man as
innocence does a fair maid.
Really our contemporary becomes
mentally unhinged and goes off into
Mysteries. Listen to this:
1t is yet to be shown that the mem
bers of the legislature desire to cast
their votes in a manner calculated to
wound vital principle of the disci-
pine OF the most numerous religious
body in this state. Does the political
party which will so absolutely control
the next legislature desire to array
itself in pronounced and distinctly -
nned opposition to that religious body?
Is 1t the purpose deliberately and fla
gravity TO insult that entire religious
society, by gratifying the aspira lions
OF any man who may have occupied an
exalted station in its councils, and for
whose present differences with his
brethren his independent political
course" is given by the uniformed as
the cause? Is it to be expected that
church thus aSsailed and antagonized
VIII not try 10 protect itself, and strive
to maintain its organic principles? Is
1t desirable to precipitate upon the
state conflict, whose end and conse-
quences cannot but be deplorable?
Could we, we should be delighted to
answer all these questions The Herald
does not know whom the legislature
will elect United States senator. but
the members of that. body were elected
by the people of Utah, and they have
the full confidence of the people. TIC
them alone are they responsible; to no
one else. They will elect a Democrat
who will be in full sympathy with all
the declarations Of the party, both in
the state and in the nation. He will
DE man who will recognize the people
as the sole source of power in Ameri
can politics They will not regard his
religious beliefs or lack of them as an
essential qualification. They will per-
form their duties as d political and not
as q religious body
The Deseret News desires TO know
if the political party which will so alb
solutely control the next legislature de- |
sires to array itself in pronounced and
distinctly defined opposition to the re-
ligious body whose official organ it
is. The Herald will say that the Demo-
cratic party has no desire TO array itsel, |
against any religious body. 1t will |
further say that the Democratic party |
will not allow itself to be dictated to or
directed by any religious or other body. |
In all sincerity and without any feel
ing in the matter, The Herald would |
say TO the News it would be we'll to |
wait until some church is assailed be- |
fore a covert threat is made as to |
what it will do. It is absolutely unde- |
sirable to precipitate upon the state |
such a conflict as the News suggests |
It's consequences could not but be de-
plorable in every regard. 1t is to be |
hoped that our contemporary fully real |
ICES all this. and that it will avoid /
course tending to precipitate such a |
conflict.
All that is necessary to say further
on this subject is that the party that
will SO absolutely control the next leg
islature has no quarrel with any re-
ligious body and seeks none but it will |
always and under all circumstances do
its duty as it sees it. When the Demo-
cratic legislature shall choose a Demo
cratic senator, no matter who he may
be, the Democratic party will approve
its action.
WAR WITH SPAIN