The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-29
THREAT OF A FvsIoNIsT.

same time by accident and not de
sign; and of course no one will thinH
that they were here otherwise, only
some may say that in this regard they
protest too much.
The gentlemen were all here in the
interest of the fusion movement, nc
doubt; they certainly talked more fu-
sion than anything else while here
Senator Pettigrew appears to have
done the most radical talking for flu
sion, talking that was designed to have
anything but a conciliatory effect on
those disinclined to fusion The SEN
ator favored The Herald with an in
terview. Two parts of that interview
are placed in juxtaDosition:
1 fail to see how. AND SAY
the Democrats of THIS TO YOU,
this state can de- THAT WE ARE
cline to fuse on the w T c H y G.
matter OF silver. It U tab AND
is the only state THESE OTHER
where the forces of STATES. AND
silver have not WE PROPOSE IF
united. 1T IS NOT OUR FRIENDS
a QUESTION OF ARE SLAUGHT-
THE MEN WHO Erred IN THE
ARE TO BE Sc WEST TO GET
LECTED, b u T EVEN.
/ THE PRINCIPLE
OF THE FIGHT.
On the one side, it seems to be all
principle; on the other, all candidate.
Senator Pettigrew tells the Democrats
that 1t is not question of men who
are to be selected, but the principle of
the fight. That is all SO grand. so
lofty, so altruistic. Principle is every
thing, men are nothing. No sentiment
could be finer. The senator should have
stopped right there, but he did not. In
the very next breath he says to the
Democrats, And 1 say this to you.
that we are watching Utah and these
other states, and we propose if our
friends are slaughtered out here in the
west to get even.'' Here the men are
placed before the principle.
All this Wanted devotion to prin-
ciple, then, is nothing but a pleasant
palaver, else why this threatening
about getting even? This talk about
the principle in the fight" when taken
in connection with the threat to get
even," sound more like a rule or ruin
policy than anything else. If the de-
votion to the principle in the fight"
were as real as simulated, there would
be no talk about getting even. Men
who are really devoted to principle be-
fore all things else stick to it through
thick and thin. and if men desert them
they go on fighting for the principle,
working until time shall vindicate
them, content Ito get even" by the
triumph of the right.
Senator Pettigrew says he and others
engaged in this fusion business are
watching Utah, and if their friends
are slaughtered they propose to get
even. 1t is to be hoped that those who
are watching viii not weary of their
work. Does he think TO scare the Dem
ocrats of Utah by his absurd talk about
even? We beg to assure him
that such talk does not scare the Dem
ocrats of this state in the least.
1t is becoming tiresome to have
admiration society that was
formed in Washington attempt to die
tate to the Democracy of Utah what
it shall do in the forthcoming cam
this, but they assume to say who shall
be the beneficiary. of their scheme.
They should understand that the Dem
ocrats of Utah are perfectly able to
take care. of Democratic policies in |
Utah. 1t is nothing less than a Siece |
IF supreme impudence for a senator |
from South Dakota, who isn't a Demo- |
3rat and doesn't expect TO be. who has
10 interest in furthering the fortunes
If the Democracy anywhere, whose in
-erest would dictate the defeat of |
Democracy, to come to a Democratic
state and tell the Democracy what it !
should do, and then say if it doesn't !
10 so and so and his friends are
he and his associates will
get even" This fusionist cabal APP
'ears to think that the Democrats of
Utah are but a lot of puppets, and all
hey have to do is to pull the strings
o make them jump up or fall down,
Ldvance or retreat. If such is their
bought, they but deceive themselves.
Not in the United States has silver
ny better friends than the Democrats
f Utah; their devotion to it cannot
'e questioned, and they see no neces-
ity for fusing in order TO further itl
but they do see a great dan
er to Democracy in Utah if partv
ines are broken down for any pur-
ose or under any pretence In the
usion movement they see so many
ersonal interests and ambitions that
hey find it impossible to believe it is
Il for principle. Some of them who
re regarded as candidates for SEN
torships and other offices would carry
ar more conviction as to the sincerity
their devotion to principle if they
-ould announce that under no cir
would they be candidates;
hat would do much to remove the per-
onal element that is now so prominent
part of the fusion question. But they
lay object to this on the ground that
he silver cause would be safe in no
Their keeping than theirs. No, neither
-isdom nor the silver cause would die
18th them.
In conclusion. it is well to remember
nat it is never good politics to tell a
ian you will hit him with a club if !
e doesn't do as you wish him to. In !
oitics, clubs should should ever and :
nder all circumstances be kept out of I
ght.
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