The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-28
THE SALT LAKE HERALD: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2s 1906

destroy friendship, retard business and
breed woe, and the result in the end will
be Infinite injury to the Mormon people,
carried to an extreme. IL VIII reno IN
twain the Mormon church. But, BEFORE
That be done, we shall have all the misery
that follows in the trail of religious hat
red and all the sorrow that is the fruit
OF dragging the cross of Christ into the
mire and mud of political strife.
No Responsibility in Temporary Par
ties.
1t is the history of political parties that
those founded upon local issues never
serve the people so well as do those that
are founded upon the basic principles OF
the national political parties. There is a
sense of responsibility that attaches 10
the great national parties that for some
reason is lacking in parties organized for
a temporary purpose The so-called ''cltf-
zens" parties, and the so-called re
form parties, with membership made up
of those who radically disagree upon the
fundamental principles of self-govern-
ment. have usually been a disappointment
whenever they have been indicted into
power. sActuated by no great vital prin-
ciple. there arises Quarrels over the dis
tribution of the spells of victory and be-
fore such parties have run their course
the men who supported them from an
honest desire for better government be-
come disheartened and discouraged. and
the parties lapse into public dsrepute.
90 not propose TO discuss the short
anu OMISSIONS or the amer
lean party in Salt Lake City. I do not
propose TO consider whether the per-
Torrance of this party in the administra-
ton OF ou- city affairs has been such as
10 commend II to the voters or whether II
has not And for this reason: In view
of the graver and the more important
matters that force themselves to the front
Tor our consideration, review of the kind
OF government that has been given us
by the American party looks trivial
rand unimportant. ! might criticise and
condemn by the hour, and yet the rea-
| sons advanced by me could well be said
TO be simply the fault-finding of one
whose party was defeated in the last mu-
| nicipal campaign.
Vote Republican, Help Americans
| The history OF the American" party
| in office is of too recent date to need re-
| capitulation. The voters know what 1T is
II they are satisfied, that is all that Is
required II they are satisfied, they car
! say so by voting the American" county
| ticket or the Republican county ticket a;
| the election and thus give the American
| party control of the county. For, so faI
as the result at the polls is concerned
| it makes little difference whether the
| Republican or the American ticket be
voted. With this exception: A vote fol
4 the American" ticket is whole vote
| to sustain that party. vote for the Re-
publican ticket is half a vote to sustain
| the American" party, and IL seems tc
me that If the voters are satisfied with
the American" party, the more manly
| way is to vote the whole ticket. Thai
| is. to vote the American ticket, instead
| of beating around the bush by voting the
] Republican ticket. If the voters are not
| satisfied with the American party. the
| only way in which they can make theil
disapproval effective is by voting the
! Democratic ticket. This matter the vot
| ers can determine without assistance
| There is one criticism that seems import.
ant to make, and that is, that the Amer
! leans" allow their campaign manager:
| too much voice in the conduct of the city
affairs and in the selection of appointivt
officers. Formed as a protest agains
bossism. they have too willingly above;
themselves to be boSSed What Smoo
has become to the state, Darmer Is u
| the city. What o. ]. Salisbury is to tn;
Republican state committee, s. p. Arm
| strong is to the American county com
! rnittee The Americans dislike church
dictation, yet murmur not at political die
| tatiOn.
But. as l have said. these are trivia
| things. Any party is liable to fall by thu
| WaySide. and it is not unusual thing 70
| those elected by honest and sincere vot
| ers to fall short of the ideals Of the PEG
pie Greater than the history of officia
laxity, greater than any failure to per
form as promised, greater than the mat
tiers that look so big to those who lool
no farther than the present and oppos'
the American" party because Of tn