The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-13
PHILIsTINE ON TOAST,

Sutherland should be effective as to that
person and the machine that made him
one Of its cogs, for it should acquaint
them with directness and force wholly
unacceptable of the opinion which in
dependent men have Of the detestable
methods pursued by the machine mon,
and serve as n warning to stop and re-
fleet on the inevitable outcome of the
autocratic abominable tactics of the
machine, which have disguised Repub-
lican voters by the thousand, and which
must inevitably result in one Of two
things: Either they viii bring the Re
publican party to complete ruin, or they
will mike it distinctively the church
party, the actual successor Of the old
People party OF Utah, depending on
church favor for victories at election,
and uncomplainingly suffering defeat
when teh church favor is for any reason
given to another party. And in the end,
this would be equally disastrous.
Judge McCarty is straight Repub.
| lican. He ia an honest man, q dis
cerning man; he is a man of aggressive,
independent character. He does not
wait for leave to form opinions and
judgments OF his own, nor to express
them. Being sclf-contained and indie
pendent, the machine has no use for
him, has decreed his DOWNFALL and
thinks it can. by the church controlled
vote, dig his political grave. Perhaps
1t can, but perhaps tho people of the
| State may have something to say about
this. The people have not in any way
been consulted by the bosses who have
declared their boycott against Judge
| McCarty; for the bosses are the eccle~
siasts, and it is their custom to do the
| things they want to do first, and give
the people chance to ratify the decree
afterwards. In the church, the eccle-
siasts can always get this ratification.
1t may be that they can force it also
| in politics.; but if they want the pop
| ular acquiescence, they will have a
| chance to use the common church CO.
ercion. And they will find that there
are plenty Of Independent men in the
Republican party besides Judge McCar
ty, who will pile ties upon their political
track.
The scoring which the Judge gives
Sutherland and the machine is beauti-
full. 1t bastes the roast thoroughly,
leaving nothing uncovered. The arro-
| gance, the defiance of law the contempt
for the old soldier Of the Republic, the
disregard Of public right, the determine
tion to reward political henchmen at
the public cost, the drawing Of sectarian
lines in the apportionment Of the Offices,
saying that one must be appointed be-
cause he is Mormon and another do
MED because he is Mormon and the
Mormons have already got their share,
instead Of considering all members Of
the party alike as Republicans, irrespec-
tive Of sectarian or church lines-all
these evils and outrages committed by
the machine are by Judge McCarty
clearly pointed out as offenses and
without any justification In party
ethics. And, needless to saw. the Judge
is tremendously strong right where the
machine is especially weak. His ar
raignment on these points is magnif~
cent, and as terrible in its severity rs
the offenses were great, which he so
effectively denounces.
And the thing which shines out con-
spicuously above it all, and is clearly
brought out by Judge McCarty, is, that
for rescnting church control of the pol
itics Of the State, and contending loudly
that there is no church sect against
the Gentiles in the Republican party,
this machine not only recognizes the
existence Of this line Of cleavage, but
Insists upon it in its appointments, un,
dertaking to apportion to ono sido or
the other to suit itself. This Is a con-
fession of the high work to
be dono here by the Ameri,
can party which is more eff
fective than n confession in words
1t is in fact quiet and effective recog
milton Of the only real line Of civic and
political cleavage here, and none the
less strenuous because it is not openly
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