The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-13
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.

Pittsburg Post: Mr. Stephen \. Doug
las of Chicago has always been Repub-
ican. hard worker for the party, con-
spicuous at Republican conventions and
a favorite campaign orator That he was
the eldest son OF the great Democratic
leader-'The Little Giant may have ac-
Mr.. Douglas makes the announcement
| that he win hereafter consider himself a
member of the Democratic party. This is
.regarded in Illinois as master of consid-
cradle Importance. on his dying bed
! Stephen A. Douglas, the elder, bequeathed
| TO his sons their most valuable .patrimony
his parting paternaI counsel: TEL them
to obey the laws and uphold the consti-
! tuition. These words are sculotured on
the base of his monument at Douglas
dation principle of the Democratic pa<ty.
! Cincinnati Enquirer: Stephen A Doug
! las son of the eminent statesman OF that
name who ran for president against Lin
coin in 1860. has renowned his allegiance
/ to the Republican party and formally
/ Joined the Democracy. He says: "Of late
ty has been to fasten this government
under the control of trusts and monopc-
! lies. The tendency of the Democratic par
! ty has been to curtail the power of money
! and place the government in the hands
| OF the mass of the people,. Mr.. Douglas
! says he has no desire for political Office
and was not a candidate for anything He
is, therefore, not a sorehead. He switches
! ON a safe principle. His change of party
] allegiance is one of the current hints that
political affairs are in state of transition
that renders it difficult for a good many
people to determine just where they are.
/ The bedrock JefferSonian principles are
Elways good to get back to. Transfer
questions frequently get the people too tar
away from the primary doctrine of sim
/ plcity and economy in government. There
are too many people who believe that a
great government must be one which gov
ernS q whole lot. The truth is that the
best government is that which governs
without the people knowing much about
il.
Pittsburg Dispatch: The war depart
ment's plea that there have been fewer
deaths from yellow fever at Santiago than
/. from typhoid fever in camps of equal size
at home is calculated to beatA Charles
Lambs excuse for coming to the Office
so late in the morning. 1T is true that
there are yellow and malarial fevers a
Santiago, pleads our wonderful war de-
partment but observe how many men
we have killed from typhoid fever without
going out of the country"
Anaconda Standard: Mr.. Hanna's man
for use in the politics which may reach
head in this state before the years cam
paignlnS is very far. advanced. The adj
'ninistration Republicans in Montana have
only one ambition this year. They realize
that, by themselves, they are imbecile in
state politics. They are doing what they
can, under Mr. Carriers manipulation. to
get the factions together that is to saw
to bring into harmonious political action
the gold Republicans and the silver Re
puhlicans. To this end the gold Republi-
cans assert their willingness to swallow
almost anything. THEY'LL have to gulp
down an assertion for silver, in that event
and what will they do with Mark Hanna s
instructions? Ignore them? Well, that's
one way. but that will put them out of
favor with the administration managers.
just the same.