The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-30
a DESPERATE APPEAL.

"a DESPERATE APPEAL
Pursuing its impudent appeal to Nor
mon Democrats that they desert their
party this fall to save the Smoot ma
chine from destruction, the Smoot or
gan descends to falsehood so base. to
misrepresentation so palpable that even
Senator Shoots adhereuts will not be
misled. much less those independent
Democrats to whom the appeal is adj
dressed.
One quotation from this remarkable
misstatement will suffice to show its
tenor: 80 that The Herald stands side
by side with the Tribune i'm the prac-
teal purposes of this campaign here in
Utah. The Herald and the Tribune are
brothers. working unitedly with a COM
mon purpose, with a common direction.
for the Acknowledgement of Mormons:
for the extirpation of that people, for
the ejectment of Mormons from the
plains and from the cities and from the
mountains of Utah. There is no limit
TO the intolerance Of the Kearns cam
paign. and The Herald must march
shoulder to shoulder with that soldier
Of hate to the inescapable ultimate of
destroying majority element of the
political citizenship of this state"
Lying IN print to be artistic ought
TO be more plausible than that to be at
all effective: it ought to bear some
semblance of truth. some near approach
to the believable-and this lie has none
OF the artistic qualifications Senator
SmOot and all his followers know bet
ter; his organ knows better: the people
of Utah know better and the readers
of The Herald know much better
Every leader of the Democratic party
in Utah knows better, whether ne be
Mormon or Gentle, protestant or Cath
ole or skeptic.
To begin with. The Herald and Trib-
une have nothing in common; the own
ership Of both is entirely separate, the
policy of the two is radically opposed
Senator W. A. Clark who IS the sole
owner OF The Herald, has no sympathy
with or part in any appeal to religious
prejudice in political affairs, and his
convictions on this subject are as well
known to Senator Shoots newspaper
as they are to the management OF The
Herald.
SO much for that phase of the ques-
ton. Now for the Democratic party's
platform in, this campaign: The lead
ers of the party. both Gentle and
Mormon, are unalterably opposed, not
only to the American" party's creed
and fits methods, but they are just as
unalterably against Smootism in its
every form. They are against such
frantic efforts TO enlist Democratic
support OF Smoot on religious grounds;
and nc one is more outspoken in oppo-
sition to this last-ditch appeal than are
such. Mormon Democrats as James II.
Moyle. Judge w. II. King. L. r. Mar
tineau and p. II. Roberts. Does the
Smoot organ mean to pretend that
Judge King and Mr.. Moyle and Mr..
Roberts are working unitedly for the
Acknowledgement of the Mormons? ''
Does it expect the people TO believe
they are working "for the ejectment of
Morrnons from the plains and from the
cities and from the mountains of
Utah7"
Like all other Democrats, Mormon
and Gentle. these men intend that the
Smoot machine shall be driven from
power. annihilated eliminated from
politics in Utah because it has be-
trayed the people. has brought upon
them and their state untold harm, has
furnished a pretext for the defamation
of the state and the injury of its best
interests They with all other Demo
Gratis In Utah. mean to stop the peren-
NAL demand for support of Smoot on
the ground that he is an innocent suf-
ferer when he knew in advance Just
what calamity his entrance into pol
itics as a dominant force would bring
in it's trail.
Seeing inevitable defeat unless he
can enlist Democratic support Smoot
is calling on Democrats TO rally to his
aid, desert their party. abandon their
principles and justify every charge