The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-29
AN APPEAL TO COMMON SENSE,

While the air is full of appeals to
various prejudices and factional forces;
while the Republicans are predicting
dire disaster If they lose and the
Americans" are predicting worse if
they are defeated, it is worth noting
that the Democrats are appealing only
TO the common sense OF all the people.
To say that Utah will be ruined If
the Americans" win, or that a whole
state Will be put in mourning if the
Republicans happen TO elect their
ticket, is to assume that these noun
tains and valleys are full of fools No
body believes for a minute that it is in
the power OF any one party TO work
wholesale disaster even if it desired: no
one is crack Drained enough to think
honestly that the mines will be closed,
the farms deserted and the cities over
whelmed with woe because some CO.
terie of politicians is installed i'm power
for brief season. That sort of argu-
ment is obviously designed to plav
upon the credulity of the public: and
the man or woman who could be Of
fected seriously by such argument is
fit candidate for the home of the
feeble-mnded
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If Utah could be damaged hopelessly
by internecine political warfare the
damage would have been done before
this No other state i'm the Union has
had so bitter and senseless a factionaI
struggle within it's borders: none has
been so patient with it's political gueril-
las, and none is more urgently I'm need
of restoration TO the basis of legitimate
politics
Doubtless the election of either the
American" or Republican tickets
would mean continuation. an aggra-
walton OF the conditions that have so
harassed and bedeviled the people Of
Utah for the past three years; but the
state will manage to pursue its way
prosperously. If not cheerfully, no nat
ter what ticket is successful.
The appeal Of the Democracy is IN
the common sense of those independent
voters, comprising the majority Of the
people. who want rational politics
sound business administration Of p,sblic
affairs, and complete cessation of the
yawping and bowling and fighting of
the two Republican factions. To this
class the Democracy appeals with con-
fidence because IT offers the SIMPLEST
solution, the only way out of a perplex-
ing situation. The Democratic party is
under obligation to no man. Il has no
factions, it has since its organization
here decried the use of improper in
huences i'm elections, and 70 has fought
consistently the men who used or
sought those influences. II e pIedged
only to secure the welfare Of the whole
people regardless Of their religious be-
liefs or their political beliefs. It's si,c-
cess would mean the elimination az
Smootism and "Americanism" o. any
other ism" as a political force in the
affairs OF Utah.
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The man or woman who 'ikes the
present condition of affairs has only IN
vote for the SmOot ticket or the Amer
lean" ticket to see those conditions
continued. The man or woman who
wants to see the county misgoverned
as the city is now misgoverned has
only to vote the American" ticket. But
the voter who wants to see a govern
ment OF the people on business princi-
pies only; who prefers clean, straight
forward politics without the wrangliag
and wholesale defamation of the state
that has been the chief political fea-
ture of the past three years. will vote
for the Democratic ticket. The choice
is offered on sensible grounds TO sensi-
bic people; and IL common sense GOV
ems the voters as It should, the COM
mon sense Democratic platform will
win.