The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-06-02

tHenry Watterson in Louisville Cou-
rier-Journal)
In order that the Democratic party
may recover its lost ground i'm those
states of the Union whose vote is de-
terminate in national elections-surh as
New York, Ohio, Indiana and ulinoie--
where the party has a lighting chance
to say nothing about Wisconsin and
acknowledgements leadership needs
70 emulate the wisdom Of the serpent.
1t must not only address itself, and
ADJUST its policies, TO the vital issues
Of the time but it must employ the
arts Of reason and common sense in
dealing with those issues. Enthusiasm
is an excellent thing, always: vet il will
prove illusOry and abortive if it be not
supported by tenacity Of purpose and
supplemented by hard work. Brag is
good dog but Holdfast is a better
says the adage; and this is particularly
true in public affairs. Hence is il that
the Courier-Journal has urged, and will
continue TO urge, especially upon the
Democrats in congress, the virtue Of
moderation both in utterance and Ia
tone; for moderation begets confidence
and in our case confidence is me miss
ing ingredient We gain nothing by
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everything to lose.
Take, for example the speech lust
delivered in the senate by Mr.. WeU.ng-
ton of Maryland, 1t is so violent that
1t plays into The hands of the Repub-
leans. Yet, as a reCusant Mr. Yelling
ton perhaps most hates the men from
whom he has separated himself He
seems to be one of those vindictjve per-
sons who, when angered, lose all sense
of the fitness OF things. Happily ne
represents nobody except himself. and
hence we may use him as an illustra-
ton, without tbs suspicion Of Interior
motive. His methods should be a de-
terent, as his fate is warning to am
bilious politicians everywhere.
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The Democratic party is not fight
ing the battle OF the Filipinos. It is
lighting the battle of the constitution
incidentally, and from a humanitarian
standpoint, we have prejudice against
burning houses ana cutting throats,
which, by a stretch of partisan fancy,
might be tortured into sympathy with
the public enemy. The Filipino, how
ever. as a Filipino, is nothing to us eX-
cept as he is one of Gods creatures,
save as he may be a suffering man.
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bring US tales Of woe from PARKWAY
lands of darkness and barbarisn.
where cruelty is largely the rule of all
warfare.
We take the record as il stands. We
have the Smith order admitted. We
have the Republicans-followi the
Root hOg-Or-die policy of evasion, sup
preston and silence-lirst denying this
altogether, forced to end by accepting
il, and, IL not actually defending, yet
finding excuses for It. We have them
comparing Smith to Grant and Sher-
man. For PURPOSES of justification, we
have them Juggling in the name of the
hOmely the humane. the merciful and
magnanimous Lincoln. Party abase-
ment the conscious. confessed des-
peration of party leaders. could go no
further; and, drawing the line here,
Democrats have only to mass and
fight, carrying the war into the very
camp Of the enemy, and by the light
of "A steady fire, revealing to the people
the conspiracy OF the trust lords and
the tariff lobby, the robber barOns Of
other days grown ten times more opU-
lent and impudent, to fasten upon us
through the agency Of a handful OF IN
principled and ambitious politicians at
Washington an oligarchism of rapine.
This is 20 be done. If done at all. In :he
name of progressive Americanism, the
soldier and the flag 1t is 10 be done, if
done at all, by a complete perversion Of
facts and terms.
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There is coiled about it a tangled
web of hypocrisy and cant. Unwind
this, and we discover two threads
which, however rotten, run through the
whole warp and wool of il; plumber aid
preferment Organized Tapacity puts
up the money. Corrupt ambition sup
plies the machinery.
The Republican managers had ar
ranged for a course of mastery mac
tivity. They had meant to lie low and
keep OAK so as not to scare the ducks
In short, through the policy Of evasion.
suppression and silence, they had
planned to let the Democrats do all the
talking. Ehey hoped much from dis
sension among US. They expected. in
the end. to march through the breach
thus effected in our ranks to the bOOIy
before them. 1t was not 10 be. The
scheme was TOO big, it was too wicked.
to be concealed. Gradually the truth
began to percolate through the tack
folds of the TENS Of evasion, suppress
sion and silence. The light Of a single