The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-20
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THE LATE ELECTION.


TAWTLII-
the result OF The recent elecuOn. 1hey
tnink II IS reai run TO sheer and laugh
AZ the Fearful GruDblng the DemOcauc
party GOT especially III UIan.
Lex Us see wneJner they are anythin@
IKE justified in DcInS so Iuil OF mIrth at
the expense of those Democrats who stood
by their party when II was SssaIed on
AL sIces ~ AL manner or hes and other
influences. Inc recent campaign made d.
the Republicans of Dtah VIA 60 down
INTO history as the most disgracetul affair
the Republicans Of Utah viii go down
state. L propose now 10 offer the proof
! OF this assertion.
Nearly every paper owned or hired by
the republicans had mission TO fill,
and that mission was TO make charges
against the Democratic party: they were
not to mind about the truthfulness of
| tneIr charges: Charge them with any
| thing. just so we will win the election"
was the Republican motto, and how well
| Il was carried out is part OF the Repub-
lean history MADE during the campaign
| just past.
The Democrats were charged with hay
| ing no issues TO present 10 the people.
/ with having nothing in their platform
] mat could appeal 70 any person Of ordi-
| nary Intelligence and that they were In
competent 10 administer the affairs OF
government but the main charge that
was worked night and day was that the
Democratic party were in league with
| the American party in order to get into
power. This last charge was worked for
all il was worth In order to arouse a re-
| NgiouS prejudice against the Hon. o. ".
Powers. How well they succeeded is told
4 IN the election returns from every county
| In Utah. Now were the charges made by
these Republican papers and speakers
| true? II they were no proof was given
| ana In order to show that they were not
! true and that none knew this better than
those that uttered them / will quote from
a weekly paper published tn Salt Lake
| City. in speaking Of the great victory
in its issue OF Nov. u II says that II
takes some Of the credit to itself for the
result OF the election in this state and
! particularly in this county. Then in the
| same issue on its editorial pages il whines
! for peace, ii says: Here the conflict has
/ been one Of peculiar bitterness waged &c
| some extent on local conditions.
Here men in the heat OF passion nave
| spoken words they would never utter II
/ governed by sober judgment
| Here charges that could never be sus-
tanned have been freely made and personal
/ prejudiceS have been drawn upon 10 Iur-
niEh material for campaign speeches.
| The charges referred TO here must have
| been it's own charges, for ever since II
sold itself to the Republican party It's
columns have been reeling with charges
! against anything or everybody that stood
/ in the way of a Republican victory Does
/ the editor OF this sheet ever stop TO con-
slider how many charges Il takes to make
| one fact or does he think the people OF
/ Utah are so densely ignorant that they
/ won't rise up some time and demand that
| these charges be proven.
I
! the same stripe. In the heat of passion II
| also made charges and reeled off lies by
| the yard il order that the Republican
| party might be victorious as well as no.
! torious, and a few days after the cleo
I ton it also Whines for peace. and in a
| sort of way asks TO be forgiven for the
| sort of campaign it wased. and cries out
/ let Us forget the harsh things said during
! the campaign. The Deseret News q few
I evenings ago, in quoting from this edi-
! torial published in the Provo paper, said
! Some things have been said during this
campaign that cannot be forgotten, al
/ though the News gives the Provo paper
! TO understand that it don't want TO refer
! TO anything the Enquirer said during the
campaign: but went on 10 state II eoulc
| not forget what the organ of the Ameri-
I can party had said prior to the election
| about conditions as they exist in Utah
J Now, a lie is a lie whether uttered by the
/ Provo paper or by a salt Lake paper. but
/ what puzzles great many IS why shoGlq
/ a paper like the News practically endorse
! or condone what the Provo paper said
! and condemn another paper for the same
/ thing the Provo paper was guilty of-that
/ of making false charges against their
! neighbOrs. There is one thing in the re-
cent campaign that stands out boldly over
everything else. the Republicans won the
| election after a campaign Of the most
| dishonest character Their cause was
bolstered up with charges against the
( Democratic party that had not one scin-
| tila of truth in them Lies were passed
| from mouth TO mouth whispered here and
whispered there. Evidently their speakers
! and writer's had been reading the Bible
| for that good book says that in the latter
I days the people would rather believe lie
/ than the truth. So taking this as their
| standard. the Republicans Of Utah won
the election. Now, IL there is any honor
| or glory in a victory of this kind, Apostle
| Reed Smoot and his followers are well
/ come TO all that is in it.
| As for the Democrats of Utah. they
/ have no need to feel dOwncast over their
| defeat. They made a clean campaign
| their candidates were honorable men who
after waging an honorable campaign. went
down TO a glorious defeat. And they also
| discovered that truth is mighty but il
| can't prevail in Utah politics; also that q
lie is all right when told BIZ the proper
person in the right place and at the prop
/ er time.
remain the same old Democrat
n. H.
Sugar House. Nov. Is. 1904