The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-12

sure enough. Several hundred people
gathered together. They didn't know
exactly what they came for; but they
knew there was a CALL and they, being
of the faithful, responded, as does the
faithful Mussulman when he hears; the
call TO prayer. ONE AFTER THE
OTHER OF THEM GOT UP AND DE-
CLARED HOW NECESSARY IT WAS
THAT THIS REGION SHOULD BE
FREE FROM CHURCH RULE; and
then an address was prepared, and we
will guarantee that after election is
over, after the excitement has passed
away, that Judge Powers himself will
admit that there was never on earth
before so fiat a perora ton after an eX-
Ordium so sounding. The call was like
the manifesto of some Central Ameri-
can braggart, who, having no other
means to make a living, issues a, mani
festo TO INCITE HIS FELLOW
LOAFERS TO undertake a revolution,
the object being solely the spoils, al
though the watchward is freedom, ETC.,
etc.
How frantic our contemporary would
have been if the meeting at which it's
personal enemies were attacked had
been treated in similar manner. Yet,
"one after the other got up in 1895,
and declared how necessary it was for
this region to be free from church rule"
and the organ which confounds audac-
ity with independent manhood, simply
scoffed
There are men in the present legis-
lature who were members of that re-
convened convention. They remember
how much the Tribune thought of pro-
erosion then. It makes a difference
whose enemies are attacked, whose OK
is gored. What did the Tribune say
to Republicans then? Here is the first
paragraph of a leading editorial print
ed Oct 26, 1895:
We warn Republicans again to be
on the alert. The Democrats of this
territory are not foolish enough to get
up the farce which they played here
in the Theatre four days ago TO an en-
thusiastic house without having some
concealed purpose behind their move
ments.
Change the relative positions of the
names of the parties in that para
graph and see how it reads in the light
of recent events. wouldn't a state
ment like that call forth a string of
epithets from our contemporary like
an endless chain of link sausage? What
if some one should refer to the ''vindi-
cation meeting" as "a farce" or "a
grandstand play? 1t makes a differ
ence whose OK is gored.
Talk about reactionaries, The Demo-
Gratis of Utah have had to contend
with them since the division on party
MI
and the Tribune has defended them
and their methods. In May, 1896, the
Tribune admitted through a, series of
editorials that unholy alliances had
evidently been made or attempted to
the injury of the Democratic party in
Utah. But when Democrats tried to
inaugurate a movement which would
have permitted the best men in the
state" to take part in politics, while
their participation from &C.
clesiastical sanction or opposition, the
Tribune denounced the young men of
Utah who were so terribly in earnest,
called them wranglers and slanderers
and asked this people" to put a Quietus
on them on election day.
What a dlnerence II makes whose
OK is gored!
Our neighbor didn't ask young Utah
to read that address of the reconvened
1t called upon them to re-
pudiate it at the polls. Was it sincere
then? Is it honest now? Was it ever
sincere in its whole career? Isn't it
ready right now to push the candidacy
of a man who represents more than
any other man in all this republic, per-
haps, the un-American ecclesiastical
machine influence in politics, if by so
doing it can further it's selfish interests
and obtain the qualification of revenge
upon its personal enemies? Time alone
can tell, for the whims of our contem-
porary passeth understanding.