The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-18
NO SORES TO LICK.

The Tribune says The Herald is again
licking its campaign sores. It was
never more mistaken in all it's exist
ence and this is saying very much in
deed. Our contemporary is assured
that The Herald has no campaign or
other sores.
The Tribune asks who were the non
partisans who were confident of elect
ing their whole ticket by 1900 plural
ity. We heard one gentleman who was
a candidate on the non-partisan ticket
offer to wager that Mr.. Clark would
beat Mr.. Dale by 1000 votes and the
rest of the ticket would have about
the same plurality. And that was the
general sentiment around the place
where this gentleman rendezvouses al
most daily and which was a sort of
carbohydrates for the non-parti-
sans.
The nefarious scheme of which The
Herald spoke was, in our own belief
and that of thousands of other Demo-
Gratis in this city and throughout the
state, to elect a non-partisan city gov
eminent in this city, and in as many
other cities and towns throughout the
state as possible, and thereby greatly
weaken party ties, and when the state
/ elections came on extend this non-par-
tisan plan to them and thereby get q
non-partisan legislature. When this
was done, of course the non-partisan
| legislature would naturally be amen
able to the influence that had made
non-partisanship triumphant And
then the sceheme was, in Democratic
belief, to elect a non-partisan as a
United States senator, but who would
] in reality be a Mckinley goldbug. This
done, the Tribune would have been able
to say to the administration, eve have
been largely instrumental in formulat-
ing and furthering the plan that has
resulted in the election as United States
senator that win support the admin
/ istration. Now give our influence rec
ignition" That, Democrats believe
was the scheme, and while they are
open to conviction that it was not, we
should like to see anybody convince
them that it was not.
Speaking of the school campaign, the
Tribune says: Toward the close of the
campaign certain officers of a certain
church assumed to use their priestly
influence to try to sway the election in
the First municipal ward That the
Tribune holly resented. It would have
| done the same had there been any oc-
casion in the general municipal cleo
ton" Would it! Didn't the head of "a
certain church" assume to use his
priestly influence in the general mu-
nicipal election when he, in the great
tabernacle and in the midst of the as
sembled thousands of his co-religion-
lists, prophesied in the name of IsraeTs
God what the duty of his co-rehgionists
in the then impending campaign was?
But the Tribune had no occasion to re-
sent it, for the simple reason that it
was carrying grist to the Tribunes
mill.
our contemporary asks if The Her
aid can explain why it urged the cleo
ton of ticket upon which fifteen Of
the twenty-one candidates We're mem
bers of a particular church. Certainly,
nothing is easier. The Herald urged the
election of that ticket upon which fif-
teen of the twenty-one candidates were
members Of a particular church be-
cause it was the regular Democratic
ticket, nominated by the regular Dem
ocratic convention; and for the further
reason that it was the best ticket in
the field.