The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-04
DEMOCRATS ARE CONFIDENT.

lI6m0SnAi = HhG NONFi0ENt
After a long, hard campaign, the
Democrats Of Utah practically closed
their work with last nights meetings
and await the result of Tuesday with
confidence that they will win. Their
expectation is based on the fact that
they have a good cause and have pre-
scented it fearIessly, fairly, without bit
terness and without calumny, depend
ing upon the common sense of the peo-
pie to sustain them in their effort to
avert a renewal Of the old political fight
on religious lines. They have fought
the Republicans for appealing to re-
ligious prejudice, and they have fought
the Americans for appealing to re-
ligious hatred. They have pledged
themselves to an honest, clean admin
istration of public affairSe and their
election would be pledge in itself that
the reign of defamation, abuse and per-
sonal machines in politics will be ended.
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1t is satisfactory to compare the cam
paign methods OF the parties as an in
dication Of what may be expected after
election. The Americans have con-
tinued their campaign of libels on the
state and attacks on individuals who do
not believe as they do politically. They
have attempted to fncite class against
class and make religious belief a quail
ification or disqualification for public
employ. They have condoned crime and
defended the criminals; and all the
while they have assumed that they
have monopoly of public spirit, patri-
otism and virtue in the state.
The fact is clearly demonstrated that
"Americanism' is only another name
for Republican fractional strife founded
on religious hate and promoted by in
dividual ambitions and disappoint-
ments. That way lies no hope of peace
or profit to the commonwealth; that
way is nothing but discord and bitter
ness and injury TO every citizen of the
state Judged by the promises of the
past and the performances of the pres
ent i'm the city, the Americans" are not
entitled to the support or the confidence
of any one who has the public welfare
at heart
The Republicans base their claim to
the suffrage of the people on the name
of great party and on appeals to the
religious prejudice of a large number of
citizens. They have already involved
the state in useless, expensive and
degrading controversy, and their only
hope of retaining power is by continu-
ing the existing conditions.
They have driven out of their marty
some of their ablest leaders and a largo
proportion Of their most substantial
followers. They have organized and
maintained machine that has ostra-
cised every Republican who dares op-
pose them, and they have put i'm office
some of the most obnoxious and incom-
petent of their followers as PAYMENT for
subserviency. In no essential have they
earned the gratitude of the people. arr
In every possible way they have de-
served condemnation at the noIIs
Openly and secretly they have omitted
no falsehood they thought would gain
votes; openly and secretly they have
tried to convey the impression that they
have the support of the dominant
church, while at the same time thew
disclaim any use of such influence.
The success OF either Republican or
american" faction of the Republican
party would mean a continuance of
conditions that have been intolerable
for the past three years 1t would
mean in either event the restoration of
religious lines in politics. condition
that Utah has learned by bitter expert
ence can bring only suffering and loss
and heart-breaks.
Opposed to these two destructive fac
tons is the Democratic party. 1t has
no factions, il knows neither Mormon
OF Gentle as distinctions in politics,
ii is doing its utmost to avert a relig-
ious warfare which would be a calamity
for both Mormon and Gentle. 1t has
made a clean, square fight against the
most pernicious political methods that
have ever cursed the state; and il pre-
sents a ticket which insures good gov
eminent for all the peopIe-not for a
faction nor a machine only.
Democratic success means honest
politics in Utah. 1t means clean pol