The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-20
SALT LAKE HERALD.s TUESDAY sEpTEMBER 60 1898

wouldn't it be better to go with new
deal?"
Our morning contemporary felt so Sc
cure in the aid it was getting, in the
compact to which it had evidently as
scented that it reviled and ridiculed
every attempt of the Democrats to Sc
| cure the fair play to which all parties
are entitled. The Tribune referred to
the proposed reconvention of Demo-
Gratis as follows:
THE great alternative of the Amer
lean people is that when they have a
growl they can meet and resolve. There
arc no strings on Democracy; it will
do them good to get together and rave;
it will be on the same principle that
now and then gambler, when losing,
has to relieve his mind and to demon
strate to himself more fully what a
fool he has been making of himself
gets UP and butts his head against the
wall"
Has our neighbor been running
bluff? Has it been called? Has it
lost? Is it now butting its head against
the wall?
Commenting upon the reconvened
convention of 1895, the Tribune played
the hypocrite as follows:
Now, If there has been anything
tried in the last two weeks, it has been
to enable the Democratic party to dom
mate the Mormon church. In public
address it is declared that the church
has no right to make a rule through
which any man shall accept an office
in the church that will in the least con-
flict with his performing sny political
part which he may be called upon to
perform. This is a direct infringement,
first, on all churches. and then it is
dead straight infringement on the per-
sonal liberty which the Democratic
party processes to be so much in love
with,
Was ever hypocrisy more glaring? If
our neighbor undertakes to reaffirm its
declarations of 1895 we will turn to its
files in 1896 and prove its further and
complete duplicity.
In its review of the resolutions adopt
ed by the reconvened convention, the
Tribune Jeered at the state Democracy
and ridiculed the sentiments they en-
dorsed. It concluded it's commentary
as follows:
Now we ask the decent men of Utah
to read this arraignment of the Demo-
cratic convention, to read the proceed
ingS, to hear the declarations running
through those proceedings, that THIS
PEOPLE cannot be trusted. and to ask
themselves what they have done since
they fairly and frankly agreed to ac-
cent the situation, to give an excuse
cast uoon their integrity as men and
citizens h, the leaders of that band
of men in this territory called the De-
mocracy. We ask them If there is any
thing in that address except that the
Democracy doubted the good faith of
the Mormon people and tried through
the whole address to convict them; and
we ask them to record their verdict on
the 9Th of November"
For one month prior to the cleo
ton OF 1895 the Tribune contained on
an average two and half columns of
similar rot daily. The worst is in re-
serve.
These excerpts are given to show
the utter lack of sincerity in the Re-
publican organs opposition to Mr.. Rob-
erts. When there was an actual case
of undisguised interference with polit-
iCaI affairs, the Tribune fiouted the
idea of raising objections There is no
such condition today. The Tribune is
manufacturing the ground OF its pres
ent opposition. 1t is drawing solely
upon that fertile Imagination which
has never failed it yet, for the case it
now presents.
Mr.. Roberts stands today upon the
same platform he stood upon in 1885,
The Republican organ says that it "op-
posed him because he was a Democrat
then. He occupied the same ecclesias-
teal position in 1896 that he holds to-
day
Whatever may be said against b. II.
Roberts, it cannot be charged that
he deserted the Democratic party in
that memorable campaign. He fought
it through, although the Tribune told
him day after day, and louder and
louder, that he was wrong in going
contrary to his file leaders. If, after the
smoke of battle had cleared away he
was swayed somewhat by the sophis-
try Of the Tribune, should that organ
reoroach him now for having followed
its advice thrust upon him so persist
emily Throughout the campaign of 1895?
B. H. Roberts surrendered nothing
that the Tribune didn't advise him then
to surrender. He yielded to no super
icrity that the Republican organ didn't
acknowledge first
LOYALTY NOT A CRIME.