The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-28
THE sALF LAKE. aERALDs SUNDAY, AUGUST 2s 1888

gratitude of Utah Democrats, and still,
if they should happen to nominate an
ex-Republican to congress, the Tribune
would Shrek louder than ever.
1t stands with one arm around an
appoinlee of the Hanna administra-
ton, while it abuses the Democrats of
Utah for not acceding to its requests.
1t endorses a party call which holds
protective tariff to be as necessary
as silver, knowing that Senator Can
non denounces the system of protection
as robbery.
1t Stimulates indignation at the DEM
ocrats for not endorsing Senator Can
non in preference to other silver advo-
Gates, while it ratifies party call that
was framed by an administration Re-
publican as a bar against the sena-
tor.
1t never wanted fusion for the good
of any cause. Its only object is to
beat the Democrats of Utah out of
their boots'' 1t is willing to fuse with
anybody or anything to accomplish
the work of it's prejudice and spite.
What consideration is such a con-
temptible organ of bossism entitled to
from the Democrats of this state? Its
constant hope, if there is anything con-
slant about it, is the destruction of
Democracy. It's daily prayer, if
| the vaporings of a jaundiced journal
may be so designated, is to beat a
party pledged to the free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver.
The other morning it awoke to the
knowledge that the county patronage
of Salt Lake county had not been dis
| tributed according to its fancy.
1t said that the last Republican clerk
in the county offices had been fired
ito make room for the mossybacks. :"
1t was in such chaste and elegant Ian
guage that our poetic contemporary
referred to the ladies since employed.
The case of Miss Sprague it cited
in. particular The Tribune claimed
that she was the last of all to go; that
she was retained until her successor
learned the business; that her salary
was finally cut, and she was forced to
resign.
Our chivalrous neighbor, who is in
terested in these clerks only for the
capital it is able to make out of them
for campaign purposes, deliberately
and boorishly placed Miss Sprague in
false position, and sought to make
her indirectly responsible for it's glar-
ing misstatements. 1t still continues
to use her name and hide behind her
like a poltroon while it maligns an
enemy over her shoulders. Yesterday
morning the Tribune-said that Miss
Sprague's salary was cut and she was
shut out of the clerks office on the
first day. All salaries were fixed at
the same time. The Tribune knew it
then and knows it now. The county
clerk offered her an additional sum out
of his own pocket as an inducement
to remain, but She would not. She was
I there one day making her preparations
to leave. That was all. The Tribune
knew it was telling falsehood, knew
it was embarrassing Miss Sprague
knew it was doing an injustice, but it
never faltered.
What objection the Tribune has to
the retention of the other ladies who
held over from the Republican admin
istration, is not made known. The
chances are that it hasn't any; that
it is just growing to keep in practice;
that it couldn't state a reason why
they should be removed, in spite of
all the fuss it is making over the fact
that they are not Republicans.