The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-21
ADJUSTMENTS TODAY.
THE NJ ETALS
COME POLITICAL HISTORY.

SOME POLITICAL HISTORY.
In a column and a half devoted to
chairman Cunningham's Democratic
address, the organ of the American"
party charges the Democratic party
with responsibility for present condi-
lions in Utah because it elected b. II.
Roberts to congress. theoretically it
conveys the impression that the Demo-
cratic party has always sought eccle-
siastical influence. is still seeking it
and in no way has ever opposed it ex-
cept after elections.
First it may be noted that neither the
American organ or the Smoot Re
publican organ had the courage to print
Chairman Cunningham's address,
though their readers were entitled to
know what that address was, purely
as matter of political news. 1t may
be observed further that The Herald
expects, as heretofore, TO publish all the
official addresses and news occurrences
of the campaign whether they are
Democratic, Republican. American"
Socialist or what-not. Further it ex-
poets to make its reports complete, fair
and on their merits as news, reserving
for it's editorial page such comment as
may be called for.
To return TO the claims of the Amer
leans" that the Democracy is respOn-
sible for church interference in politi-
cal affairs here: 1t is a matter Of
history that b. H. Roberts was de-
feated in his first race for congress by
some of the men who are now most
conspicuous in the American" party
men who sought and profited by the aid
of prominent churchmen. Mr. Roberts
was elected on his second nomination
In spite of these men and in spite Of
the influences they sought TO COM
mand.
1t is a matter of history, also. that
The Democracy is the only party in
Utah which placed itself squarely on
record against any sort of ecclesiastical
influence in political affairs, and did it
when the convention which made the
declaration knew it was inviting defeat.
AT that very time the present leaders
and the organ of the American" party
were Republicans, inviting church in
fluence in their behalf deriding the
Democratic declaration against it, ac-
Cepting office at the hands of the men
they now denounce in unlicensed terms
and glorying in the success of their
party by such means.
The Americans" seek now TO convey
the impression that the Democracy is
controlled and directed by Senator
Smoot and the political coterie he has
gathered around him. They might
better credit Senator Smoot with con-
trolling the Thompson administration
of the city or any other absurdity.
None know better than the Amer
leans" the irreconcilable conflict be-
tween the methods of Smoot and the
men he commands on one side. and
the methods OF the Democracy on the
other.
The Democracy fought Smoot before
he was elected and while the present
American" leaders and American
organ were supporting the election of
the legislature that they knew would
put Smoot i'm the United States senate
1t has always fought Smootism i'm ev-
cry form, whether 1t took shape in
Nuggets of Truth or in the various
other forms of skullduggery by which
these Americans" profited politically
and commercially when they were the
chief beneficiaries of the system now
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Mr. Cunningham was right when he
asserted the Democracy is in no way
responsible for the present situation In
Utah. If the Democrats had won in
the last city election there would have
been no grating and scandal over the
jobbery of the city administration as
there is new; IL the Democrats haC
elected the senator in place Of Senator
Smoot there would have been no such
internecine warfare no such whole.
sale defamation Of the state for politi-
cal purposes as his election brought on
And finally. if the Democrats win this
fall. as they hope to. there will be ar
end Of both the Smoot regime and tn,