The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-09
The METALS
COMMON SENSE POLITICS.


All the resounding platitudes of the
campaign orators and all the pleasing
rhetoric of the campaign writers may
De tested for sincerity and truthfulness
oy the application of such common
sense as man uses in his ordinary
business affairs.
For instance, the Americans" talk
good deal about Saving Utah. ere
deeming the commonwealth" and up
lifting down-trodden people" In
fine phrases they excel but what of
their performances? They have been
in control in Salt Lake for nearly a
year, and their record offers a good
commentary on the sincerity of their
professions. They have saved Utah"
by making Pat Moran a donation of
close 10 100000 on public works and
giving him the exclusive right to bid
on city contracts.
They have redeemed Utah" by an
nouncing daily to the outside world
that the citizenship of the state is COM
posed of law-breakers, of men and
women whose word is not to be trusted,
of a servile people who are unfit to be
permitted the privileges of citizenship.
Uplifting a down-trodden people, to
them means an assault on every indi-
Vidual who presumes to differ with the
Americans" on a question of public
policy or who questions their right to
dictate the nomination and election of
every candidate for public office. 1t
means to them the imposition of addi-
tional taxes, the dissipation of the pub
lie funds in unnecessary salaries and
extravagant general expenses. 1t
means a higher tax rate, neglected
public service, a contempt for any re-
straint on their policy of loot and plum
der for political heelers as a reward
for partisan services.
on the other hand, the Republicans
lay claim to all the beneficences of a
kind Providence; to them is due the
abundance of the harvest, theirs is the
credit for the discovery of great mines,
the thousand and one material bless
ings that follow in the train of a boun-
tiful water supply and perfect weather
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and executors of every good and per-
feet gift-if one is to believe their pro-
fessons. But what of their perform
ance?
In Utah the Republican party, by it's
fractional fights, it's intolerant machine
methods, it's subordinaticn to individual
ambitions has brought upon the state
a guerilla war in politics which has
retarded its progress immeasurably, in
flicted untold injury on it's material
interests and divided its people into
warning camps. 1t has substituted con-
tention for domestic peace. discord for
harmony among all classes, has named
inefficient men for high public office,
and limited the control of the party to
n small coterie, who use it exclusively
for the benefit of themselves and their
close friends.
Measuring the value of promises by
the performance. the Republican party
has fallen so far short that it deserves
no consideration from the voters.
Against these two factions. the Demo-
cratic party viii offer candidates who
have no axes To grind, no personal in
terests TO serve. are identified with no
faction or clique; who will be named by
a representative convention without
dictation from any selfish interest, and
who will serve all the people not q
wing of the party or faction founded
on religious animosities. The Demo-
Gratis have declared their opposition to
any attempt to divide the people on re-
Iigious lines. whether the attempt is
made by Americans" or Republicans;
they propose to make their campaign
or a legitimate political basis, appeal
ing to the common sense of the peo-
pie. and rightfully expecting the voters
to aid them in restoring peace, stopping
the guerilla warfare and restoring the
control of political affairs 20 the peo-
pie, where it belongs
Sir Thomas Upton says he still has
a covetous eye on the Americas cup.
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