The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-09-14
THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

NEXT TUESDAY the Democratic
~ clans from all over the state will
gather at Provo for the purpose of
nominating candidates for justice of
the supreme court. for representative
from Utah in congress and for the
transaction of such other business as
may properly come before the conven-
ton. All indications point TO a splen-
did meeting. from both the standpoints
of numerical strength and of interest
If every Democrat win do his duty the
triumphant election Of the nominees at
Provo will be assured.
a great effort has been made by the
Republicans during the last few weeks
to brighten the Democratic party in
this state by talk of defect.ons from
the ranks. A few traitors have gone
over TO the enemy, but there isn't a one
of them who is not a good riddance
or who cannot well be spared. They
make a terrible fuss all the way down
the line, from the great Shurtliff Of
Weber to little Jake Evans of Utah
I
aware, no Democrat is shedding tears
as a result of the announcement of
their withdrawal.
| Edmund Burke once said: Because
half a dozen grasshoppers under
/ fern make the field ring with their
| importunate chink, whilst thousands of
! great cattle. reposed beneath the
! shadow of the British oak, chew the
1 cud and are silent. pray do not i'm
agine that those who make the noise
are the only inhabitants Of the field;
/ that, OF course, they are many in
number. or that, after all, they are
other than the little, shriveled, meagre,
hopping. though loud and troublesome
/ insects of the hour"
/ The great body of the Democratic
party in Utah need not be alarmed
I at the chirping Of the grasshOppers.
They are not, as Burke so aptly puts
/ it, this. only inhabitants of the field"
/ There are Democrats all over the SOW
ereign state of Utah who are making
no noise, but who win vote the Demo-
! cratic ticket straight in this good year
1902, as they have In former years. And
their ranks will be augmented by an
other class that the Republican organs
and the Republican claque are not say
ing so much about. There are some
thousands of honest Republicans in this
mountain commonwealth whose gorge
rises at machine dictation. They are
not talking, but their protest will be
effectively registered at the polls next
November.
/ Discussions have arisen in the Re-
publican party which time cannot heal
Fresh wounds have been inflicted and
old sores reopened; the rasp Of the
knife against the grindstone is heard
in the land. The edges of those weap-
ons are growing keen and their owners
will cut and slash with them where
the cutting and slashing win do the
most good. Back toward the Demo
cratic side of the dial the pendulum
/ is swinging. Verify there is no need
for Democratic Encouragement over
the outlook.
AS faint heart never won fair lady
so no battle was ever won by troop:
disheartened before the opening gun
was fred. Thrice is he armed tina
hath his quarrel just" wrote Shake
speare. The Democratic quarrel il
Just this year and with good lgh
the Democrats win prevail Let able
| fearless men be named at Provo Tues
day and Wen keep McCarty on hi
bench in the Sixth district in the soutl
, and Howell at his eminently respect
! able private business in the north.