The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-16
JUDGE POWERS ON HIMSELF.
To The Herald Company. a Corpora
ton:

To The Herald Company, a Corpora
ton:
l address you in your corporate ca
| paclty, because, as was said by a dis
lnSuished law writer Corpora lions
have no SOULS and your course in tbs
senatorial canvass gives color to the
truthfulnesS of the assertion, and fol
the reason that one-twentieth part OF
you is owned by a senatorial candidate
who has admitted that he is putting
up for you. I also address you thus
because 1 have no quarrel with the
young men, who, to secure their bread
and butter, feel compelled to work fol-
you.
If, in truth, your paper was the or
gan of the Democratic party, and ii
you spoke from a patriotic and unset
flsn standpoint, your words would have
great weight with me, and I would give
TO them the serious consideration which
they would deserve. But, l deny your
right to speak for the Democratic
party. L do not understand that your
senatorial candidate is putting up
for you, from entirely disintereated mo-
tives, and as no man can serve two
masters, you will. l am sure, pardon
me for saying that while your hand,
to all appearances, is the hand of the
Democratic party, your voice too plain
ly indicates that it is the voice of the
candidate.
You understand, of course, that 1
write to you because you referred to me
this morning, in a double-leaded article
printed right next to reading matter,
and you gave painful prominence to
the fact that at present 1 have only
three votes for United States senator
You addressed me as You, Judge
Powers" and one of my competitors as,
You, Judge King" which indicates
that you must have taken note of SEN
ator CannOn's vigorous sentences, when,
in the course Of his speech, he re-
marked, You, Heber j. Grant, and
YOU John Henry Smith" and which
shows that you appreciate viriIe Eng
lish.
AS I read your article, 1 thought I
heard the voice of your candidate, from
his labyrinth of rooms, whispering the
familiar couplet:
Won't you walk into my parlor,'
Said the spider to the fly.
You ask me to urge a caucus of the
Democratic members of the legislature
You know, of course, in advance, how
such q caucus would result. Your can
didate having a large majority of the
Democratic votes could readily turn it
into a ratification meeting. He could,
with safety, hire his band in advance.
and the Woman's Democratic club
could begin mixing the punch which it
had discussed. Your candidate is said
TO be worldly wise and his friends claim
that he is shrewd in his day and gen
Grafton. If that be true, what respect
would he have for me, if l unhesitat-
ingly played against another man s
game? If I was thus simple, would
you not, as a corporation, feel that you
had been fully justified in giving me
the treatment that you have in this
campaign? Would l not be in need of
one of those chaperones with which the
city has been filed, and whose sole
business seems to have been TO tag
members of the legislature?
Prior to the balloting l favored q
caucus. l suggested the two thirds rule.
1t is too late now TO advance the plan.
\ better plan is to have all the present
Democratic candidates withdraw and
the legislature select some Democrat
whose election will unity the party.
That course would be fair, for, while
your candidate at present is the choice
of a majority of the Democratic men,
bers of the legislature. he is not
the choice OF the voters to whom we
must look for future success and for
the advancement of Democratic princi-
pies. 1t is believed by the Democratic
minority of the Legislature that his
election viii close the door through
which Democratic victory must come.
1t is not always wise and it is not
always patriotic for the minority to
yield. In 1896. you were publishing
Democratic paper and it was the Demo-
cratic organ. Six men represented the
state of Utah in the great Chicago con-
vention. Suppose a gold standard plat
form had been adopted by that con-
vention and a gold standard candidate
nominated, would your paper have con-
demned those six men if they, under
such circumstances, had refused to he
bound, and had bolted? No, 1t would
have hailed their act as patriotic. 1t
would have commended them for their
stand for conscience sake; it would
have gloried in their act. The methods
being used to coerce the minority, are
the methods which stifled the voice of
the common people in national conven-
tions, until the new Democracy was
born in Chicago. Republican bankers
are uniting with the horde of mercen-
aries with which our lodging houses
are filed, and the power of cOncen-
trated wealth is put forth to smother
honorable ambition. The methods used
are not Democratic and their success
win not aid Democracy.
1t has been urged that we must elect
your candidate, in order that you may
give us an organ. The Democracy had
better be without an organ and preach
its faith in the highways and byways
than that it trade n public trust for a
newspaper. Fortunately, the argument
is without merit. for. your principal
stockholder states that you will con-
tinue to print a paper whoever may be
elected senator.
You say that I am selfish. That is the
reward which you offer me for what I
have done and tried to do for my party.
recognize that the Democratic party
does not owe me anything and l am
not aware that 1 am indebted to the
party. 1 believe that the books are
balanced.
1 shall continue to be a Democrat.
Not Democrat OF the dollar mark
brand, but on the contrary, one of that
class to whom human heart beats are
more precious than the clinl1 of coin
Believing that the minority is con-
scientious and sincere, l shall not urge
it to surrender and I shall consider it
a higher honor to be voted for by three
men who are defending the true faith
than to sit with Mark Hanna in the
senate and feel that my success had
been forced down the threats of an I'M
willing people. o. w. POWERS.
Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. Is, 1899.
Constituent Addresses Rep. Jackson.
Salt Lake City. Feb. Is.