The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-25

/ Particularly is this true when we con-
slider that he leads the opposition 70
the unseemly fractional disturbance that
has caused the Republican party to be-
come a menace to the prosperity of
] Utah,
Would Serve. the People Well.
And if had theStime 1 would gladly
name and pay my tribute to each of
the other candidates upon our state
J ticket Their qualifications for the ipo-
sitions for which they have been named
are unquestiOned. They are men whose
| interests are in Utah. They are men
who will not strive to build up per-
sonal following in order to perpetuate
| themselves in office. They are citizens
who can be trusted. and in addition to
/ their sterling qualities, there is a fur
/ Their argument in their favor. and that
| is, their election will be a rebuke 10
those who have caused the present I'M
| fortunate turmoil with which we are
afflicted. They had no part nor parcel
In creating the conditions that rapidly
| eliminated after the Republican state
convention. We are all aware that the
American people will not passively SUBJ
nit to political dictation. This fact
/ the dominant faction of the Republican
party evidently lost sight Of but it was
/ soon brought forcibly to it's attention.
Soon after the Republican nominations
were made there was a stormy session
Of the Republican state COMMITTEES.
| There were murmurings of discomfort.
which rapidly rose to angry protest.
/ The chairman of the Republican state
committee, with an arrogance born of
a little fieeting power, proclaimed that
/ for every vote that was lost to the Re
| publican ticket he would secure the
votes of two Mormon Democrats in
the country And he further declared,
, with a holiness that made men stare.
that while the Republican managers
/ had failed to lead the boiling Republic
ans into their parlor as the spider did
/ the fly. that he would make other ar
engagements" in order that the Repub-
! lican ticket might be elected. I have
/ heretofore denounced these ill-advised
words Of the Republican chairman,
words which added fuel 10 the leaping
/ flames I have asked him TO define
what he meant by declaring that he
would make "other arrangements
will say now that these words, spoken
as they were by the chief executive Of
I hcer of the great party, will do more
/ harm to his senator before the senate
committee upon elections than all the
denunciations Of that senator that can
be made by his enemies. I want to say
| to all that the Republican state chair
man spoke without authority. Neither
! h nor the senator who gave him the
place that he occupies in this campaign
/ has the power to do that which he said
that he would do"
: Mormon" Democrats.
will also say that / know the Nor
mon Democrats Of the country.
have broken bread at their tables.
/ have worked with them year after
year. They are Democrats from prin-
! ciple, and they are Democrats who
mind their own business and sustain
/ their own party. Year after year they
] have met defeat, and they have met
/ it with no vain repinings. but with the
! resolve to prepare once again for bat
/ tie. Now that victory is in sight, now
/ that the men of their choice are about
/ to be elected. they win not suffe,'
| themselves to be made catspaws of.
by means Of which the chestnuts of
! Senator Smoot or anyone else viii be
/ pulled from out the fire. Now that
/ their political enemies are about 70
meet their Waterloo because they have
proven themselves unworthy to control
/ the state. these country Democrats
will not rush to their aid, but they
will vote as a unit for the Democratic
I ticket.
They cannot afford to- do otherwise.
| They cannot afford to help pFolong the
unfortunate situation created by tn .
/ Republican factions. They cannot af-
/ ford to vote the Republican ticket and
/ by so doing prove beyond a reason
able doubt that the charges that have
] been made against our state and which
are the real basis Of the movement TO
| GUST the junior senator from his seat
are true. They are men and women
Of good common sense as well as hon
/ esty of convictions. and they well
know that the Inevitable result of
I Mormon Democrats" voting the Re-
/ publican ticket in order that it may
not be weakened by the defections OF
boilers will be the enactment of j
constitutional amendment and the
adoption Of drastic legislation by con-
gress, all aimed at the people of this
stata.
Bolt of Republicans.
From his language 1 infer that If
the Republican chairman could have
his way he would pull down uponlour
heads the very walls Of our political
edifice. His strange and arrogant
boast gives to me evidence that
Whom the gods would destroy. they
first make mad" But the rage of the
Republican chairman was as a sum-
mer zephyr compared to the western
| cyclone which the conduct Of the DOM
inant Republican faction caused in the
/ ranks of the independent Republicans.
/ The latter speedily and boldly gave
voice to their dissatisfaction and they
/ have organized a new and active par
ty They have thrown down the gage
of battle. They have declared their
grievances, and whether or not those
grievances have foundation in fact, it
is idle to discuss, for the new move
ment has following that is respect
able in strength. 1t matters not
whether the new movement is a result
Of disappointed ambitions or whether
1t was born from the honest conviction
that there is a necessity for it's exist
ence-it is here and It is a factor fer
consideration. 1t will not do to at