The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-10-09
A SIMPLE SOLUTION.

VI I'LL IL ~ LIZ " an ~
Il presented to Senator Fairbanks by
the Republicans of Titan? Must have
impressed the vice presidential eandi-
date with the dignity of the Repub-
lican senators of this state and the
breadth of view they take in party
matters, must it not?
Just recall for moment TIE events
Of the Two days which the Hoosier
senator spent with the Utah contin-
gent. He was met by SmOOt. Spry,s
Cutler and their trailers. 1t requires
no vivid imagination to come near
guessing the tale they told Of Kearns
and the split i'm their ranks. When
he reached Ogden, he was met by
keaTns, and il is easy as rolling off
wet log TO guess what Thomas had
to say about Smoot, Spry. ct al. That
night Fairbanks spoke TO an audience
OF Weberites SmoOt was on the stage:
Koarns in box. Reports brought
back from Ogden indicate that the
Smoot crowd took every opportunity
they could get to insult and belittle
Kearns.
The next day Senator Fairbanks
came to salt Lake and lis whole stay
was strategical contest between
the two Utah senator's TO see which
should have possession of the royal
Fairbanks ear Smoot helped Fair
banks on with his overcoat; Kearns
took him driving. Smoot and Spry
went UP on the candidates train
when he left town; Kearns raised the
ante and went on into Wyoming with
the visiting potentate. The .last re-
port indicated that Kesrns had side
tracked Smoot at a water tank and
left him there with good prospect
FOR a large demurrage bill.
Altogether It was a fine exhibition.
wasn't it; credit to the state and
calculated 70 give outsiders a lasting
impression of Utah's gracious hospital
ity and TIE earnest Cooperation of all
its citizens for the general good? In
cidentally. it was about as fine a dem
onstration Of the natural and newt
able results of Republican administra-
ton in Utah as could have been found
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sort Of thing? Isn't it next door to
disgraceful that factions could not
forget their feuds for TIE sake of their
state. II only for forty-eight kours?
Even Sioux Indians have been known
10 suspend hOstilities for the sake of
guest and their own obligations as
hosts, yet these leaders Of great party
could not let pass the opportunity to
give an exhibition of spleen and malice
that must have impressed Senator
Fairbanks unpieasantiy if It did not
entirely disgust him. Indeed, it is VIC
lating no confidence TO say that he
expressed in ogden his displeasure be-
cause some of the men in the Smoot
contingent showed discourtesy to
Hear11s who had come up at his (Fair-
banksD Urgent invitation.
The moral OF the episode is plain
enough: If Utah wishes a continuance
of this sort of guerilla politics: il it
wishes to see the state torn by factions
in business. IN social life. in ali Of its
affairs it has only to continue the Re
pualicans in power.
When Old Ben Franklin was in Lon
don before the colonies had declared
their independence Of the mother coun-
try, be wrote an interesting and highly
suggestive pamphlet on how 10 lose.
colonies IN this pamphlet he described
at length exactly the policy George III
had adopted toward the American peo-
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surest way Of iujuring Utah. the most
expeditions method of losing for Utah.
TIE respect of the outside world, we
would outline exactly the policy the
Republican party organization has
pursued III this state. If its leaders
had intended TO create distrust of The
state, arouse old enmities. sever friend
ships and plunge the commonwealth
into the most serious crisis OF a decade,
hey could not have devised their pro-
glamme more effectively.
We think TO fair man viii deny that
the Republican Organization alone is
responsible for this state of affairs;
and certainly no fair observer will
question the existence of an unbearable
situation Whether the junior senator
or the senior senator is in the wrong
is immaterial. They were both elected
by the Republican party and tkat party
alone bears the burden of the result.
It must be evident that 10 other
problem is OF such Importance to Utah
as the immediate and permanent set
tIemcnt of It's internal troubles. \ very
simple and effective solution is pre-
scented, one that viii put a auietus on
the Republican factions. restore peace
at home. renew confidence IL the state
abroad That solution is tie election
OF the Democratic ticket-a ticket rep
resenting no faction. no one mans sell
fish interests. no suspicion Of improper
Influence. a ticket Of strong, capable
men whose sole desire is to give the
state peace and prosperity and good
goversment
Universal disarmament is proposed
by the International peace congress
na,e Ia session ia Boston,. But what