The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-24
TWO POINTS OF VIEW.

Dne or the stock arguments OF the
partisan is coming into play already i'm
this campaign in the form of a plea
that the defeat of the county Repub-
lican machine ticket would be a defeat
for Roosevelt. OF couse, the men who
make the plea know better. for they
know the election of a county clerk in
salt Lake county OF the defeat of
sheriff has no more to do with national
policies than a tramp has to do WIKI
soap.
Even Roosevelt, the patron saint of
the machine, is on record against such
a puerile argument in behalf of "A local
ticket. Here Is what he said in one of
his luc.d moments whom he was not in
sympathy with a machine ticket
The worst evils that affect our local
government arise from and are the in
evitable results of the mixing up Of city
affairs with party politics of the nation
and state. The lines upon which national
parties divide have no necessary cOnnec-
tiOn with the business of the city. Such
connections open the way TO countless
schemes OF public plumber and civic cor
rUPtion.-Theodore Roosevelt.
Substitute county" for city in that
utterancc and you have the situation
here in salt Lake county. The Repub-
lican machine is hopelessly whipped i'm
advance of election. It has divided its
own party and alienated public SYM
patty so thoroughly that its managers
foTesee defeat and are looking for u
soft place to alight Something of the
temper Of the rank and file Of Repub-
licanism was exhibited in the hostility
that kept Reed Smoot, a Republican
senator. away from the state cOnven-
ton of his party because he feared the
effect OF his presence on the campaign
i'm Salt Lake
FcreSeeins defeat unless something
desperate can be done to retrieve their
waning fortunes. the Republican lead
ers are appealing for support on the
ground that Salt Lake county must be
carried for RoOsevelts policies. Could
any better answer TO that appeal be de-
vised than Roosevelts own words?
Would he hesitate for "A moment in
such crisis as confronts the people OF
Utah 10 vote against the Smoot ticket
and for the rehabilitation of the state
county and city politically? With all
his partisanism and dislike of anything
but Republican men and measures.
Goes any one suppose he could be so
blind rs to vote for such a regime as
the machine has given Utah? He
wouldn't hesitate for a moment to up
set the machine; and if he couldn't do
II I'm convention he would at the polls
80 far as his influence could accom-
plish that result.
No: the plea will not work this time
1t WAS tried In the city election, with
what results the people of Salt Lake
have rueful cause to remember. To
vote for the machine candidates in Salt
10 giving the Americans" their only
show 20 win, because the Republican
ticket has even less show for victory in
the county than Lynch had in the city
last fall-and Lynch had no more show
than a jaek-rabbit would have i'm a
bunch OF hounds.
The Democrats viii ask support for
their county ticket on the ground that
il is the one best calculated to give a
good business administration of county
affairs. and incidentally, because It will
settle the tactional fight in the Repub-
lean party and end the demoralizing
turmoil that has beset the community
for the past three years because of that
factional fight. and no better reasons
could be offered.