The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-09
POWERS MAKES
APPEAL FOR utah


N~vAtEibe4 from Page j.
vo. that the senior senator from Utah
Is q bribe-giver and the people OF Utah
are so weak in morals that they are
b~ibe-takers.
Charges Against Smoot.
But, when we turn 10 the other fac
ton Of the Republican party. when we
listen TO what the supporters OF the
senior senator have to say when we
read the organs Of the senior senator
from Titan, we find there boldly made.
the charge that the junior senator Of
t1is state, who was elevated to Office
by Republican votes and in the face Of
the earnest. protest Of the Democratic
party, has dragged his ecclesiastical
robes into ward caucuses and lowered
himself by using his priestly power to
coerce TO his way Of thinking the de-
Nout followers of his religious faith.
Ihis is terrible charge 10 make. 1t
IS an allegation that he has toyed with
holy things. that he and his may enjoy
temporal power. 1t is q declaration ths&
one who has been declared fit by his
associates TO preach Christ and him
crucified, is willing. if ne may thereby
advance himself in political life, 70 play
upon the religious passions of his fol-
lowers, as the hRrpist strings his harp.
And these are the conditions existing
in the political life Of Utah today. They
exist because two persons are fighting
for power They exist because on the
one hand the senior senator desires to
succeed himself and to be reelected to
the United states senate, and the junior
senator desires 10 place there one
whose voice and vote he can always
control and thus TO increase his polit-
ical power. 1t is a selfish and unseem-
~ struggle, involving no principle, and
the interests of the people are tossed
about like shuttle cocks. 1t is a strug-
gle that can only be ended; it is a con-
ditiOn that can only be cured by the
defeat OF the Republican party and a
return Of the contestants to private
life.
Ordinations and determinations.
We. as Democrats, willingly believe
that both the Republican senator's are
truthful men. They occupy places of
honor and trust We cannot concede
that they falsify. That being true. it
becomes interesting to note the fact
that at the reunion of the veterans of
the Black Hawk war at Manti. the
Junior senator in public speech, OPEN
~ and boldly charged that the senior
senator from Utah mad borne false
witness, that he had with elaboration
and with intent to injure garbled the
truth concerning the bill for the pen
sions OF the veterans, and that he had
done 80 with the fell purpose of in
Juring the junior senator. And later.
the senior senator. speaking to thou
sands through the columns Of his
newspaper, hurled back the charge and
oehantly proclaimed, in effect, that the
junior senator is a man whom it is
necessary TO introduce u the truth else
ne viii pass it by. These are the pic
lures drawn of each other by two
truthful men. They see themselves as
I'm a looking glass They each declare
that they have a true insight into each
others character And these are the
men whom the Republican party elect
ed to represent all OF Us in the great
est parliamentary body of the world.
1T is not for US to say which one is
mistaken, il either are. in the deliuea-
ton of the other For all that we know,
they may both be right. But. whether
( they be right or wrong. they have
/ clearly established one thing, and that
is, that the people have nothing to
gain by taking sides with either, and
that the path of honor leads in the
direction of the Democratic party.
Favors Popular Election of Senators.
How strongly this contest for pow
er by two persons and their adher-
ents' emphasizes the strength of the
position which has been taken by the
Democratic party, that the constitu-
tiOn of the United States be amended
SO that our senators in congress be
elected by the people. / believe that
this plank of the Democratic party is
in the interest of good government and
in the interest of the people. l believe
that the people are as well able to
choose their senators as they are their
congressman, and that if they were
permitted to do so, that there would
be no such condition existing as there
exists in our political life today. There
would no longer be the ~disgraceful
struggles in our legislatures when sem
ators are elected. There would be few
er charges of corruption and of brib-
cry; there would be chosen as SEN
ators the men whom the people want
and not the men who elevate them
selves by methods that bring sorrow
TO the true lovers of the republic.
IF the Republican senators from
Utah are ene-hAlf so bad as they paint
one another; If they are one-half as
cuipable as is alleged by their respect
i've adherents: il their success will
lead to one-kalf the trouble for the
state as Republicans of the one side
or the other declare, then neither OF
them is fit, to hold Office and to repre-
sent Utah And who shall decide which
one is right and which one wrong!
They were each elected to Office by Re
pubiicans. and their merits and their
demerits were as we'll known then as
now How are the people 20 know IN
the midstof this hot contention in which
they. are engaged, which faction OF the
Republican party is entitled 20 VIM
How are You TO know whether II IS
best to support SmOOt or to support
Kearns. and in the support of either
what great principle are you upnoid-
ing? What advantage win there be TO
the state of Utah If you sustain either
Of these men2 What win any Demo-
crat gain by taking part in this light!
The contestants should be left alone 10
fight it out If they enjoy such things,
and they should not be sustained by
those who hope for better things in
Utah.
Nation is Interested.
Already there is a well grounded
.rumor that the Republican national
committee is TO take hand IN the
contention. The storm brewed in Pro-
70 and the flames famed from sum
nit are TO become objects of interest,"
10 the national leaders. And that will
be the result OF that? Does any man
need a map of rtke situation Is II
necessary to explain the conditions as
they exist 20 any intelligent mind2 To
me. things are as plain as pike stan.
We have already trouble enough. We
are already too much Of an object OF
scrutiny By people outside of our state.
And with full knowledge that the COM
mittee of the senate OF the United
States has not yet completed It's IA
bors, these leaders of Republican
thought are each day creating new