The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-13
"OUT OF ITS BOOTS"

The Tribune's appeals are generally
to passion and prejudice; sometimes
they are made to selfish interests. But
they seldom rise above the shallow
! water mark.
1t doesn't like the Democratic ticket.
But an organ, whose platform is amy
thing to beat the Democrats" would
! be hard to satisfy in a Democratic con-
vention. When the Tribune singles out
a man for especial condemnation. it is
a pretty safe bet that personal diff
ficulty lies back of it all. The secret
of it's criticism so far is easily ex-
planned. And our neighbor seems to
have no higher object in this cam
paign than to beat the Democrats out
of their boots" and to use its columns
for the purpose of carrying on private
auarrels.
1t returned to the goldbug organiza-
ton for the avowed purpose of getting
even with Democrats who preferred
their own to the Tribuue's way It
Joined in the Republican call for a
party reunion. 1t led the way back
into the regular Republican camp. 1t
acquiesced in the work of state con-
vention presided over by Arthur Brown
and manipulated by Rogers, Glasmann
and Glove. 1t crooked the pregnant
hinges OF the knee" while these men
stood upon its ample neck.
But all this humiliation and anguish
was endured in order to effect amy
combination to beat the Democrats out
of their boots" 1t wanted to accom-
plish this because some proposal or
other it had made had been rejected
by the Democrats of Utah. Petty spite
was its inspiration. and the abnegation
it is doing now is a tribute to the god
of its selfishness.
1t appeals to religious prejudice 1t
reoDens the Mormon question. 1t de-
clares that "Mormons captured the big
majority Of the nominations. Edi-
torially it repeats the same statement,
and makes an anti-Mormon argument,
taking the position that they are not
entitled to the representation accorded
them.
1t also appeals to the selfishness of
ex-Republicans, judging by its own
standard that they only Joined the
Democratic party for the purpose of
9reserr1e2t-
1t says that. only old-line Democrats
were recognized. Still it rontends that
all Mormons are new converts to the
party
1t makes a gallant plea to the Fomen
TO resent some slight it defines in a
~,
the women know how deeply interested
in their welfare and suffrage our tickle
neighbor is.
But its principal grievance is that
the Democratic party should dare to
nominate any man known to be per-
sonally Objectionable to it and to Chief
Pratt. They not only stand upon the
Tribune's platform. but now they are
jumping up and down.
Every assault it makes on man
may be traced back to a business or
personal difficulty. The official who re-
fuses to accede to its demands must
not expect to escape its malice. And
the more active a Democrat has been
to preserve his party from the insidious
work Of cunning foes and thoushtless
friends. the more vindictive will be the
Tribunes attacks upon him. And when
the journalistic cutthroat has made its
charges against such a man, it rounds
them off with a mysterious insinuation
that there are graver ones"
But the organ of Arthur Browns
party will never go farther than to in
sinuate. 1t will use the weapon of a
coward and choose the dark for its
deed
I'VE favor a platform that will beat
the Democracy ot Utah out of its
boots" says the Tribune. I'VE want the
Democracy OF Utah beaten and we do
not care what combination is made to
ACCOMPLISH that result"
And the more active a Democrat has
been. the more anxious the Tribune is
to beat him.
When the presence of non-partisan-
ism was objected to in the Democratic