Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-08-18
TO YOUR TENTS, OH ISRAEL!

&. NJ. Jackson, editor of the State
Journal, which is worth reading, and
thinking about and doing something
about. 1t reads as follows:
Gentleman editors of the Republican
press of the state of Utah: The State
Journal desires to seriously direct
your attention to the fact that we are
on the eve of an important campaign;
that we are close to an intense battle
with an enemy that is prepared to
make bitter and close fight. That
the ranks of our opponents are closed
up and every man is in his place pre-
pared for the combat. There is no di-
vision in the lines of Democracy; the
rows of FURNISHED steel are glittering
in the sunlight, the colors are dancing
in the breeze. The leaders are filled
with hope and anticipation. But,
Waterman on the walls of Republican
ism, what of the night for us?
With regret we hear the answer,
that our side is torn with dissentions
that the very ground appears to be
slipping away from us; that those who
ought to be our leaders are even draw
ing their swords against each other,
and, in the presence of such unseemly
conduct on the part of those whose
plumes should wave in the thickest of
the fight against common enemy
who can blame the enlisted man for
losing faith?
Turn your eyes toward Salt Lake
City and what do we see? A member
or the supreme court compelled to de-
lend himself from the onslaughts of a
professedly Republican paper, con-
trolled to a large extent by a United
states senator, and in which another
United States senator is reputed to
own considerable stock and through
the columns of which he Yields a con-
siderable influence. Compelled to de
rend himself, not through the medium
OF the mouthpiece of his own party,
but through the columns of a Demo.
cratic paper, which no doubt rejoices
in this Republican row, and through
the columns of another paper, whic
represents neither Democracy nor Re-
publicanism, but third party having
nothing in common with the other
two. Look farther and you can read
in another journal of general circula-
ton and one which has consistently
supported the Republican ticket, and
10 nv" thC Oh
the chairman of the Republican state
committee, and of one, if not both, of
the senators, and read there that the
chief justice of this state, Republi.
can, an associate justice, Republican
and the judge of this judicial district
ARE fit subjects for Impeachment pro.
ceedings. None of them is fit to oc.
cupy seat on the bench" Read fur.
Their that the judge of this distric,
considered it good policy" to be in
the good graces of at least two mem
bers of the supreme court, "the two
political tricksters, Bartch and Nc
Carly" Remember, gentlemen of the
Republican press of the state, it Is not
a Democratic organ that makes
these scandalous allegations; it is a
Republican paper. 1t Is not mud
thrown from a battery owned and con.
trolled by the third party, but is fired
by Republican.
Who is to blame for all this? The
rank and file of the party who go to
the polls and by their ballots achieve
success? Are the awful allegations
made spontaneous outbreak of a
pent-up popular indignation that de.
fies concealment any longer? Candor
compels us to answer in the negative
and to say that all this unhappy con-
dition of affairs has been brought
about by men who would set them,