The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-06
THE GUILTY INTRUDER.

The Hon. o. j. Salisbury died on the
18th day of last month. Apostle Smoot
brought here, on the 22nd Of the same
month, the Hon. James r. Garfield. Sec
retary Of the Interior On that date.
while Mr. Salisbury was still unburiod.
Apostle Smoot had Secretary Garfield
spring the Smoot boom for a second
term in the Senate, It was as indecent
display OF political trickery and
ghoulish impudence as was ever seen in
the field of partisan politics.
On the Monday morning succeeding,
The Tribune. in order to straighten out
the true inwardness of the Smoot in
decent prcmatureness, gave n resume
of the current gossip relating TO the
Smoot intrigues and promises with re
spect to the next United States Sen
atorship in Utah. We should have
been glad to postpone that review If
the Smoot prematureness had per-
mitted; but inasmuch as Smoot had in
duced Secretary Garfield to spring the
previous, thus jumping instantly into
the breach created by the death of Mr..
Salisbury, we considered the time op-
portune to give roundup Of the stu
alton.
But although Apostle Smoot had him
self been the ghoulish instruder to in
wade the sanctity of Mr.. Salsbury's
death two days before, he had the in
solent gall TO call attention. to the i'm
propriety of The Tribune review,
which was necessitated by Apostle
Smoot s "previousness in forcing the
tary Garfield 1t was q plain case that
Apostle Smoot was fastening TO take
advantage of the death Of Mr.. Sails
bury to urge his own claim to succeed
himself in the Senate. Tt was impera-
tive, therefore. that there should be a
statement of the political understand
ings had on this whole matter.
If there was any indclicacy in the
presentation, that indelicacy was ac-
centuated in Apostle Smoot s case, as
compared with The Tribune 8 prosenta-
ton. If The Tribune presented the
sented it even sooner. If The Tribune
was Jealous in opposition TO the claims
of Smoot, the apostle was even moro
Jealous in presenting those claims be-
forehand. We should have been glad
to defer the matter until a moro seem
ly time if the situation had not been
forced by Apostle Smoot unduly, and
his candidacy forced upon the attention
of the people of the State in spcH a
way that the mention Of the political
could not be avoided; and so
whatever there is to be regretted as
to the timeliuess of that presentation,
it is entirely due to Apostle Smoot,
who was the first in the field and who
forced the attention of his Senatorial
ambitions upon the public, making nee
essary the general review of\the situa-
tion which The Tribune gave two days
later.
1t is, however, another instance of
the ilhmitable gall of the priestly des-
pots here to see Smoot take advantage
of the feelings proper to the occasion
to berate The Tribune for intruding
politics on so solemn occasion, when
he himself was the first offender and
had anticipated, by two days, the re-
view in The Tribune; and had, by his
act in having his boom
sprung by Secretary Garfield, precipi
tated a discussion of the whole situa-
ton. 1t is absolutely certain that what
ever of impropriety there has been in
this matter was forced by Apostle
Smoot in his indecent haste and zeal
to spring his Senatorial boom without
regard to propriety, decency, or the
feelings Of anyone concerned