The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-27
Want Tribune Opposition.

But seriously speaking, Mr.. Glas-
mann. do you think you could be elect
ed if the Tribune opposed you after
YOU were nominated
Certainly! The people would make
my election unanimous just as the
Weber county Republicans did There
are some people who think the Tribune
has great power in Utah. 1t is all
mistake There is not a country week
ly in Utah that has not more influence
than the Tribune. II has abused and
alienated the Irish, the English, the
Germans, the labOTiLg man and the
Mormons. 1t has tJIsed and scandal
lied them all and driven them to de
spise it. and now they call the Tribune
The Skunk Of Utah Journalism
Please point to any class of people with
which the Tribune has any influence.
Can't do it? I thought SO. An honest
man must die to receive a kind word
from that paper True, it boosts its
own IicksDittles to the sky, but I
count them as part Of the Skunk in
the Tribune.
Would I accept its support? Not if
could prevent it. If l thought the
/ Tribune would support me, If nomi-
mated I would make desperate at
! tempt to secure an Injunction restrain
! ing the motley crew from saying any
/ thing in my favor. If that failed, 1
would decline the nomination.
why am I SO particular about that2
| Well let me tell you. If 1 received the
nomination and the Tribune supported
! ie, the people would say, There, Bill
/ Glasmann has purchased peace with
/ the Tribune that Bill has fallen on
/ his knees to the wOrshipful Joss, Pat
/ Lannan, and has had the Tribune
/ collar buc'led on I could stand de-
/ feat. but to be bTan6ed a Tribune tool
I never"
Then you are an anti-Tribune candi-
date?"
Doesn't Recognize Tribune.
! No. sir. am Republican candi-
date. 1 don't recognize the Tribune in
/ this fight 1t has dictated Utah poll
/ tics for the last time. 1 believe the
! people Of Utah are going to turn it
/ down"
( What do you think Of Secretary Of
State Hammond
/ "Oh. he is all righ--a good, honest,
upright man. If he 6 nominated the
I fact that he is recognized as a Tribune
| candidate Will be a hard load for him
/ TO carry. Anybody with taiTt of
/ Tribuneism viii go down to defeat
/ sure2 Still Hammond could save him
/ self by openly repudiating the Tribune.
I w nat 90 tnlllh Oh the OudtiSC9 u
] Republican success?
/ Barring the Tribune the state would
/ go Republican by big majority any
dav. But with the Tribune, the Re-
/ publican party has a hard, hard fight.
/ "Vhat would result If the Tribune
/ asked for an endorsement Of the con-
/ vention %
IF the Tribune had the nerve to ask
! a Republican convention TO endorse IL,
/ I feel sure that the convention would
/ take that as an Insult end read the
/ Tribune out of the party.
/ DO I favor TIE proposed conSttu-
/ tional amendment? No sir. I do not.
B Polygamy is dying out so fast that IN
I a few years plural family viii be a
{ novelty in Utah. Besides that, to favor
/ the constitutional amendment in 2
/ Utah convention is an insult to the
/ Mormon people, as it implies that the
Z Sai,.ts are not true 10 their promise 10
abands pOlygamous marriages. L am
+ convinced the Mormon church has
/ stoned all plural marriages and as
/ decent people. we should prove the con-
/ trarv before we seek to punish them.
/ How about the United States SEN
atorship2'
! salt Lake CITY has the governor
I three supreme judges, United states
I senator and all the Other offices. while
/ the rest Of the state has practically
nothing. The people Of Weber county
Feel that Salt Lake can afford to give
! ogden the congressman. There IS d
1 senator to be elected soon. Salt Lake
/ can well afford to give this. coming
nomination to Weber county. Gocdby,
and Bill escaped through the door ana
/ thus closed the interview of the man
who received every vote OF his party IN
l his county for congress. He IS not
LID To talk that is sure.