The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-10-11

.cessfu. a voice: ~Heber J. Grant.'O
Let us speak gently Cat this point
a woman marched down the aisle and
threw a bouquet at the feet of the
sseaker)
You remember then that there was an
ecclesiastical interference in 1888 in the
legislature. No senator vas elected at
mat time, but il was not the fault Of
The gentlemen who used the diCtation,
against which we offer opposition. They
tried. but the gavel fell too sooa Twelve
o clock struck and the legislature ad-
iOurned
IN 1901 the legislature met again in
Z tan and Reed Smoot Was the CHIEF
candidate. supposed 10 be the chief can
didate during The legislative campaign,
ana almost up to the hour Of the meet
ing of the legislature-when he was
promptly set aside. as be has set aside
Others since that date. Ii thc-e was no
other ecclesiastical dictation in politics
IN 1901 there certainly was nOICble SUI
ficiency in the removal or MIR. SmoOt as
an aspirant for senatorial honor for he
mad previously been an avowed candidate
and he ceased to be a candidate only
when told 70 quit by his ecclesiastical
superiors. He speedily learned the meth
cd and has used IL since.
In 1903 the legislature Of Utah met.
and although there were many men in
this eOmmunity-notably that sterling
man. that splendid lawyer that good
that great financier. W. ). Mccormick.
who wanted to go to. the senate Of the
nited States-there was no man among
them who dared to make a serious fight
against the man who had the ecclesiaStl-
cal power in his favor and even the
Gentiles in the legislature mot quite
without exception. happily bowed TO
that dictatiOn as readily as these who
were members of the church.
Shoots Marionettes.
Como We now to this year 1901 You
have been told by both the county chair
man and the permanent chairman how
two Reoublicans-one an ayowed candi-
date for a year. and the other one "A
candidate for q month Cor the COVER
norship-were changed over night. As l
listened 10 him l could not heip think
ing of that old vaudeville performance
where the ventriloquist with his mar
ionettes puts an Irishman in one box and
'naygur' into another box. and he
seems to make them talk out Of the same
box.
And all the time we know ii is the
ventriOqFist speaking in the different
voices. And so it would not have maze
any difference which marioHette he had
used. whether the Irishman Callistcr or
the 'naygur' Cutler. VIC know it would
have been the ventrilOquist SmCot who
would have spoken to either one of them
as Governor.
IT have seen some Of the WORK OF the
great Senator Quay-in his time the po-
iitical boss Of Pennsylvania: and the
easy boss Senator Platt of New York.
Each one of them was a genius nrob-
ably nearly as ablc as Senator SmOOt.
Yet both Of them together corll never
have made a strong man Ike Ed Cal
lister The chief candidate for the gov
eTnorship and then have changed him in
a night for a man almost entirely I'M
known 20 the people and the party work
ers. IL is probable that today seine OF
the mon who arc shouting 'ITurrah for
Cutlerr do not know what Cutter ii is.
And il IL not an extravaganza 10 sup
pose that some OF the voters viii scratch
the name of John c. Cutler on the bal
lots and substitute for il Thomas r.
Cutler thinking that the printer has
made a mistake.