The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-11
LESSONS TO BE LEARNED.


Experience ought to teach the Demo-
cratic party of Utah the lesson that Re
publicans have long since learned. The
lesson is this: 1t is better to have a
minority that can be trusted than a
majority In part composed of obstruc-
tionists and traitors.
A mistake tina, Republicans seldom
make, but one that Democrats are con-
stantly making. is TO nominate for Of
fee kickers and grumblers to pacify
them.
Senator Shurtliff is an illustration of
this. He was nominated in 1896 by the
regular Democratic convention of We
Der county to keep him from using his
secret influence against the ticket.
What is the result? Senator Shurt-
lift turned traitor to the Democratic
party a year ago, and, instead of re-
signing from the office bestowed upon
him by that party he remained in it for
the purpose of lending aid and comfort
TO the enemy.
There are others who are following
in the footsteps of Senator Shurtliff, not
so brazenly, but in the same direction
towards the same goal. They are:
C. M. Jackson.
D. o. Rideout.
Joseph Lapish.
Aquila Nebeker.
w. G. Nebeker.
John E. Belts.
John Fisher.
D. S. Cook.
B. &. Greenwood.
S. w. Stewart.
Claude Wheeler.
These are the men who fought the
party that elected them. These are the
anti-caucus members of the legislature
the men who were willing to caucus
with any faction, any candidate, any
party, rather than with the majority
of the party they claimed to represent
They are the boilers who repeatedly
refused TO go into a Democratic caucus
or to be bound by its action.
Every Democrat in the state of Utah
who believes in majority rights and
majority rule should mark the men
who, claiming 10 represent their party.
have betrayed it at the last redoubt,
who turn like traitors as the victorious
party is about to grasp the fruits of
victory and plant themselves in the
Observation-Disclosures
If the Democratic party cannot win
without the aid of such men it may as
we'll be defeated first as last. And, I'M
less it leaves them off its tickets in the
future it will be defeated, and it ought
10 be-
What did the legislative victory of
last fall bring to the Democracy Of
Utah anyhow?
Responsibility, dissension and Repub-
lican opportunity. When the legislature
assembled in January there appeared
to be a two-thirds Democratic major
aty. But this was on the surface. No
one had counted on the invisible leader
ship of Republicans; 10 one had reck-
oned the fine Italian hand which has
always been able to manipulate one or
two senatorial candidates in every cam
paign. And so what appeared TO be a
Democratic majority of two-thirds en-
braced eleven men whose pretensions TO
Democracy are absurd or whose con-
ception of the fundamental principles
OF the party is deficient.
When men deny majority rights,
when they absolutely refuse to abide
by a majority vote they have right
10 bolt and go: but they cannot expect
harmony where minorities are taught
the lessons such men would teach them.
II were better TO turn the state over
to Republicans entirely and for all time
than to leave it to the tender mercies
of alleged Democrats who trample I'M
der foot the cardinal doctrine of De-
mocracy and deny the rights of major
tiles to rule.