The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-08
ACTUAL LEsE MAJEsTE.
Republican Calls Attention to Urea
sonabTe Hanna Editorial.

To The Salt Lake Herald:
Under the beadiRg. senator Hanna s
Illness" the TribulR makes a leading cd
iCorial which might not be worth nOtlC-
ing IL il was not Tor the assertions t5ls
(Efannd - services have been o. IaI
greater value to our people than those
Of any ono who has taken his life an ms
hands and gone to battle for the presef-
walton Of the Union
To men of HannaS age throughout Lhe
country this assertion appears 50 ride
uloUs that all would like to hear Wnat
those great. services were ana are t1aI
place Mir. Hanna 50 far above the men
We have looked I'D to as being great sol
diers and leaders since 81 lt IS perfecJly
plain TO the average Republican that the
object in the editorial was 20 get in on
the ground floor in case Mr. llama
should secure the nomination for the
presidency. and we may regard his eI-
fort as the first gan-in Utah, at least
in Senator Hauna's campaign for the
nomination, or OF his friends to capture
II WON'T work out. for the reason that
il Is the great body OF the people OF the
country who are demanding the nomina-
ton Of Roosevelt in the interest Of good
government, and any pushing OF Mr.,
Hanna nov win be out of time and viii
be the greatest boost the Democratic
party could receive from the hands Of a
faction Of the Republican party.
Before pushing the Hanna movement
forward this faction should pause for a
moment and consider the fate OF Blame
who, indeed. might have been president
If he had not pushed himself forward out
of time
NJ Arthur foand the Republican party
very much run down and he surprised the
Republicans and the country by giving
us q straightforward business administra=
ti0u. which raised the party up Immense
y. Regardless OF the man Arthur him
self, the services rendeFeo I'D GIVING Us d
good government should have been recoS-
niZed by q nomination Tor the presidency.
and IL he had been nominated. Mr.. CleVe-
lard would never have been president,
buC lot of shouters had to push forward
Mr. Blaine, anc because the party ulu
wrong in making the domination we have
seen and felt the consequences.
Ii would certainly be q case OF history
Gocs-if Air. Hanna is pushed forward
now. And &c will be the same kind of
men pushing MT. Hanna that pushed for
ward General Grant the third time for
foolish thing that was ever attempted to
be done bT any considerable number OF
Republicans-and who later pushed for
ward DIR. Blaine. They said they were
"stalwarts' -stalwarts in wrong cause
as I think.
me writer of this does not wish 70
detract one i0ta from the fame and good
maine of Mr. Hanna if ne could do so lie
is perfectly willing Mr. Hanna shall be
president and has no doubt he would
make n good president; but not now.
Neither is the writer a sOrehedd or an
assistant Democrat He claims % be q
true and loyal Republican, 50 much so
that he gives il as bis calm. deliberate
conclusion or lifetime. and would say
the same If ne was on his deathbcd. that
there SIS not now, and has not been dur
ing the whole Of his lifetime, any political
party in the country that mad either sense
or honesty o. loyalty except the RepUb-
ucan party.
lie does not accuse individual Demo
Gratis Of lacking these qualities of good
citizenship. because he knows very well
that there are many men In the Demo
cratic party who are just as good and
honest and true as any on earth. but we
have TO take each party average it 40 as
one MAI, ana WHOM we do this We be-
lievo the above assertion 20 be strictly
true. Il j. ARMSTRONG.