The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-25

over the republic. it magnifies the i'm
portanee of an election in a little state
like Utah.
Neither the people of America nor.
the people of this state desire to re-
turn to the conditions of ten years ago.
and the attempt on the part of the
Tribune, because it does not want Mr..
Roberts TO go to congress, to bring
about the old conditions. should fail.
Referring to myself, undoubtedly, the
editor says: THE one most active in
the assault upon him and his Ameri-
canlSm three years ago was the one
who, from seat to seat. was whipping
in the brethren TO support him in the
convention" l made no assault what
ever on Mr.. Roberts three years ago.
and nobody knows this better than the
Tribune. l stated that he should have
got the consent of his superior. church
officials before running for office, and
this position the Tribune says it sus-
tanned, and that in doing so its atti-
tude was s''invulnerable.'' Speaking of
the church, the Tribune says: Now,
when we see the same power moving,
when we see it place in nomination a
man solely as reward for the abase-
ment of his manhood, when it is under
stood in advance what men have been
nominated to be elected, and what can
didates to be defeated, then all that
an honest newspaper can do is to warn
the people of the danger they are I'M
der and appeal to them to be true to
native land"
1t is a marvel to think that the Tri-
bune should claim to be an honest
newspaper after publishing the above.
That man does not live who can truth
fully say that the church, or any agent
of the church, placed in nomination
any man for any office in any conven-
ton. Mr. B. II. Roberts was no more
the nominee of the church than was
Robert n. Baskin. 1t would be equally
as legitimate to claim that Alma Ell
dredge, the Republican nominee, was
church candidate, as he, as we'll as Mr..
Roberts, is a leading church official;
but the claim that either of those gen.
tlemen is in any sense a church candi-
date is absolutely false.
The young men of Utah know that
b. II. Roberts is their friend, has la
bored for them in season and out of
season. and no amount of dirt which
may be thrown at him will prevent
those who are Democratic from sus-
tanning the choice of the Democratic
convention. There is no young man in
the church who feels that there has
been any authority exercised over him.
and who feels tired of the shame and
degradation placed upon him. IF we
were working for votes, it might be
different. We will work to try and keep
this region from falling back into the
grooves in which it crouched in dis
grace for a generation" What idiots
the Tribune editor must think his read /
ers are, to find him hammering away
trying to resuscitate old conditions, |
and then to try and induce them to /
swallow his disavowal in claiming he is
to prevent it. Men are judged |
not by their professions so much as by
their actions, and the professions of the /
editor of the Tribune, that he does not (
desire to restore old conditions, in the /
face of his writing editorials to the /
contrary, will go for nothing.
The business men of our state heaved |
a sigh of relief when conditions in Utah |
became settled, and the discounted (
receptive candidate for senatorial
honors' who now presides in the Tri- /
bune editorial sanctum will not succeed
with his clap-trap editorials in throw
ing dust into the eyes of sensible peo-
pie. Yours respectfully,
HEBER J. GRANT.