The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-05
CLOSING THE CAMPAIGN.

.EOoiN6 he CAMPAIGN.
With the reports all in the speeches
about over and the issues made up, lit
tie remains to be done in this campaign
except poll the vote and announce the
result. What it will be here in Utah
will depend upon the desire OF the peo-
pie for peace and an end of ilIegitimate
political methods II, as the Democrats
believe, the whole state is tired Of the
turmoil and hopeless confusion, the
pickering and personalities, the appeals
TO passion and prejudice that have no
right relation to political issues, there
can be only one result-the election of
the entire Democratic ticket
This one issue is so alI-important, it
will affect so profoundly the whole fu-
ture welfare of the state that no other
question is worth considering until it
is disposed of effectually, finally.
Consider these facts:
The Republicans wish to restore the
old days when religious lines marked
political differences. when there were
no real parties-only factions divided
by religious distinctions. They wish to-
restore this condition because in it they
see their only hope of maintaining their
hold on the Republican organization
and their grip on federal state and
county patronage. They do not see or
they deliberately ignore the patent fact
that such politics means dissension in
religious as we'll as civil affairs. 1t
means commercial loss, social unrest,
injury at heem and abroad. No COM
pensating gain could possibly result
from such a disaster
For much the same reasons-the graf
ifcation of personal ambition, the hope
Of Office for the workers" and the
qualification of spolitical grudges, the
Americans" seek exactly the same end
as the Republicans, namely, the resto-
ration of religious lines in political af-
fairs. They would bar from public en-
ploy large proportion of the citizens
of the state; they would make a mans
religion the test of his right to have
voice in the management of public af-
fairs; they would perpetuate the dis
sensions, the fractional hatred. the cam
paign of defamation directed at the
whole state as we'll as individuals who
do not agree with them. No party
based on such motives can possibly be
permanent, nor can it offer any return
that could ever repay the damage, the
INJURY to character, the bad repute for
the state abroad which has followed
and would still follow from their pol
icy.
Against these two factions of the Re-
publican party both seeking the same
object and for the same purpose though
on different sides, are arrayed the DEM
ocrats aided by that large independent
element which has no sympathy with
the objects and methods of the faction
lists. They have taken no part in the
purely personal and malicious attacks
of the campaign. They have purposely
refrained from discussing fully the NAL
administration of the Republican coun-
ty officials or the American" city Of
ficials. They believe the issue is great
or than the petty jobbery of city OF
county officials, just as a disease j
more important than it's symptoms.
This large body of citizens assumes
that it's opponents in the mass are ac-
tuated by sincere motives even if those
motives are not praiseworthy. 1t has
no sympathy with personal abuse as {
substitute for legitimate argument. L
has no use for the party or faction thai
fniects dishonesty and misrepresenta
tion and abuse into such a crisis as con
fronts Utah.
What the Democrats and men, Wh'
baIieve with them want is a fair, clean
honest presentation of the issue. The!
believe that is ample and that if the,
are given the hearing their argumen
deserves they will win by the shee
strength of their position. They appea
IN the voters-not on the ground of re
ligious prejudice or religious hatred
hut on the ground that they alone cal
restore peace to the commonwealth an
stop the effort to precipitate religion
warfare. They believe the time is op
rortune and that the people are witt
them: that Mormon and Gentle AM
lew and non-beIiever alike are sick am
<s-a,5 of fbe situation brought on by tn