Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-05-20

Kearns crowd, masking as Amer
leans" The Democrat says:
1--WE hope the Democrats of Utah
will not be led into this miserable con-
fab. We hope they will stand pat
on their political convictions, and
make the fight of their lives for the
redemption of our state from the cess
pool of political rot 1t is to be re-
GREETED however, that there are some
Democrats in Salt Lake and other
places who are ready to join either one
side or the other of the Republican
party and assist that organization in
plunging the state farther into the po-
litical mire. They don't seem to real
| ize that by so doing they are aiding
| in destroying the identity of the Dem
ocratic party and taking from it the
power to redeem the state; they don't
seem to realize that Utahs political
salvation depends upon the democracy.
1T appears just now that the Demo.
cratic party has no state paper to aid
in holding Democrats in line and in
pointing out the necessity of them
keeping in line The Herald it is true,
is a sort of quasi democratic paper,
but its alliance with the Salt Lake
newspaper combination prevents it
from making a strenuous, unyielding
fight for the Democratic party-and
we are not saying this in the spirit of
censure, because we do not doubt but
that from a business point of view the
management is acting wisely and con-
scienciously. But this is a time in the
IL, In, yfatn
and in the nation, when it requires the
efforts of editors who are fearless, I'M
flinching, untrammeled, pronounced,
and aggressive in their work for the
promotion of Democratic principles.
This is time when newspapers and
men who are loyal to principle and
consider the rights of the people of
greater Importance than the almighty
dollar to get into the fight and, even
though they may sacrifice their COM
Imercial interests in so doing, stand
firm in the advocacy and PRONUNCIATION
Iof those principles. Not for only a
day, but for all time; every day, every
week, month and year until victory
is gained.
THE Logan Journal, the Utah Coun-
Ity Democrat and the Richfied Reaper
the lesser of these perhaps in in
huence being the Democrat-are the
only papers in Utah that are true
blue" to the Democracy in the state.
These papers, we believe, are Demo
cratic from principle and will stand
firm in the fight as long as they are
permitted to live. AS for ourselves we
will stand until the last for the De-
mocracy though by so doing we have
to live on a crust of bread, because we
believe the Democratic principles I'M
der present conditions are right
1--WE all know where the Tribune
stands. 1t advocates the Kearns wing
of the Republican party with the hope
of some day controlling the machinery
of the reunited party, and in the mean
time it hopes to kill the Democratic
party The attitude of the Deseret
News is a sort of a problem. 1t is
sometimes difficult to determine
whether it is championing the cause of
the church or the Smoot wing of the
Republican party. Perhaps it is doing
a little of both. We do not believe
that the church as an organized body
has any direct concern or endeavors
to exercise any direct influence in the
politics of the state. This being the