Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-11-05
WHY STILL TRY TO DECEIVE

One of the most improbable tasks
for partisan paper Is to engage In
the work OF explaining after election,
why defeat came instead Of the Victory
II so boastfully and positively predicted
before. Yet II Is common endeayor
when the contest IL over, and we sup
pose II viii be often repeated, no mat
ter how foolish and useless It may be.
OF course, II defeated party can learn
wisdom by discovering It's own defects
and determining to reform its ways,
good may result from full investigation.
But when disappointed pariisans try
10 throw the blame for their discomh-
ture In wrong directions and exhibit
merely desire TO shift the RESPONSE
billty from themselves and their meth
DDS, and vent their spleen upon fanced
opponents they only provoke derlsIon
and show their imbecilty.
The weak and watery attempts of
thoroughly routed and ratified contem-
porary IN that direction, are Just what
night be expected from such a source.
They are absolutely silly and con-
temptble, They are also utterly vain,
and are OF no effect except to expose
the malice and mental mfrmity of their
author II tho result would be worth
the work, We could take up the returns.
district by district and prove the ut
ter falsity and absurdty OF The pre-
tense put forth.
The facts and the figures show. be.
yond a rational doubt, that the mu-
nloipal election was combination OF
elements determined 10 put down ma.
chine rule and the domination of self,
constituted bosses, who Imagined
'hat money was the absolute mon
arch IN local politics, The women
voters OF all sects, parties and societies
formed powerful factor In the sum
OF the conflict. They moved from a
moral standpoint and their influence
counted heavily, They feel that they
have gained a striking victory.
The respectable and conscientious
supporters OF the yanqulshed candi-
dates understand the sltuation,and des-
pise the endeayors 10 cast odlum upon
alleged promoters OF the successful
movement who took no active part in
It, They understand the public senti.
ment which led to the result that so
sorely afflIcts certain persons, and
quietly acqussce In the popular verdict.
~ ~ only the plotters and sehemers
Tor personal ends and their gangs of
hirelings, who now howl and gnash
their gums, and curse and berate mag.
mary cohorts In the fight that routed
them Decent people abstain from all
such exhibitions.
II Is said that figures do not lle''
That Is probably true. But IL is also
true that good deal OF lying is often
done with figures. This is strikingly
10 when figures are picked here and |
there, and massed together in such n |
way that they convey incorrect inform- |
alton, Such partial and juggled arrays |
are like those half truths which are |
In effect whole Hes And the ar
Eansement, no matter how deftly mani.
pulated, plainly exposes to the thinking
reader the miserable mendacity OF the
figure fiddler.
what Is the use Of trying to stir up
old strfes and revamp had feelings for
hating and crippled cause2 Why not
seek to pull the people OF this city to-
sether for mutual benefit and the up.
building OF It's material interests2 We
should endeayor TO promote harmony,
good government public improvements,
progress and an honest management
of municipal affairs, and let the sores
Of defeat heal and the chagrin Of dis.
appointment pass away, in view of the
Tact that good and fit men win occupy
The chief places in our city admInistra.
lion, and that peace VIII Glory it, NJ
fairs, while contention and spleen win
work only obstruction and evil.