The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-01

In his opening address at the convention
Senator Sutherland said in part:
1T is a very great honor, as well as a
very great pleasure, to be permitted TO
preside over this representative Rspubi-
can convention. | read in the American
organ a few days ago that l was 10 be
the temporary chairman of the conVen-
ton. and you will therefore readily under
stand how entirely unprepared l was for
the notification. which came to NE later.
from certain truthful and reputable gen
tlemen. that / had in fact been selected
for that distinguished honor. L shall pre-
serve that copy Of the Tribune, contain
ing this perfectly truthful statement con-
corning myself as a novel and unique sou
venir for all time TO come. The paper,
however, went on to say that If [ had any
ability at all-Which the journalist cOurte-
ously seemed to dOubt-it was in the direc-
ton of making bitter and VituperatlVe
speeches, and that 1 had probably been
selected in order that | might indulge that
propensity.
Judas, Ananias, the Devil and the
Tribune.
However, one may tell unpleasant
truths without being either bitter or vitu-
perative. For example, do not admire
the character of Ananias or of Judas. or
of the devil, but when ! say that the first
was a notorious liar, the second pur-
chased traitor and the third an undesir-
able associate for q pious man, / have
stated some unpleasant facts, but with
out vituperatlon or personal bitterness To-
ward either of these peTSOnages. And so
when l have made from time to time, in
the past-as l shall continue no doubt to
make from time to time in the future
some absolutely accurate but unflatter-
ing observations concerning this newspa-
per and the purchased and purchasing
gang of political pirates who direct its
policies, l have done so III the same I'M
personal spirit with which l would speak
of Ananias, or OF Judas, or OF the devil
The Tribune is too. sensitive and too sell
ism. II is willing to deliver unfair blows
against people IL does not like, but cannot
receive blows in return without winning
Ii the Tribune had been published at the
time of the adventure of Jonah and the
whale / have no doubt in the world that
its report of that interesting incident
would have declared that Jonah had sWai-
lowed the whale and when Jonah. with
lust natural Indignation. had chdracter-
lied the statement as false and scurrilOus
the Tribune would not only have reiter-
ated its original story but would have
denounced Jonah as Jack Mormon, CIV
en- over to bitter and Vituperative speech
making, and moreover would have insist
ed that he had probably swallowed the
whale BY the command of the hierarch.
Il believe that the leaders of the Amer
lean party are politically dishonest. These
leaders declare that the excuse for the eX-
| istence OF the American party IS that
both the old political parties are domi-
mated and controlled by the Mormon
church-a statement which | believe to be
outrageously false. | am opposed, and
have always been opposed, to the Mormon
church or any other church interfering in
! political matters. Such interference IS
contrary to the genius Of our institutions.
and persisted in could only result III pO-
| litical disaster.
"If some of the people belong to a
/ church and permit themselves to be con-
| trolled in their political action by their
! In 70, hot f..,ef
a government By the church-a theocracy
and not a government by the people If
| they belong to a political organization
and Weld the control of their political ac-
ton to few politicians, we have, TO that
extent a government by the bosses and
not a government by the people. Each OF
| these things and all similar things are
/ I'M Democratic. un-Republican and I'M
American. If the members or the city
| council should pledge themselves TO con-
| firm no person to an office unless he
should first have certificate from the
! church authorities of his good standing
| in the church, and to remove from offlce
any person who could not produce sucn
! q certificate honest men everywhere
] would agree that such council was I'M
| fit to represent a free people. Such a
situation would be intolerable. because the
| mon who had been ostersfbly elected 10
| Tenresent the people wolld not be the
| servants of the people. as they should be
hut the tools of the church, Whlch they
! should not be. Nor would the case ps
different in principle. if they should pledge
themselves to follow the commands OF any
| other coterie of men.
Scorns american" Resolution.
| "If. for example. the members OF the
| council should pledge themselves to vote
| against the confirmation OF any appolhte'
/ to office or to remove from offlce any
person who could not procure a cerullcats
| of his standing-let us say, Tor example
| from the precinct or ward bosses, thes
/ would be surrendering the trust OF tins
people who voted them into Office mt
| the hands of persons whom the people Nae
| never voted for and who perhaps the PEG
pie would not want ana sucn iIlne
| would be profoundly shocking 10 every
decent thinking man.
| IF the American ticket is elected, we
shall have set OF councllmen pieusec
to act upon all appointments, not upoi
| their own judgment as to the iltness, VI
| the Americanism even. of the appoihiee
/ but upon the irresponsible Judgment o.
set of ward and precinct bosses. ths
| councilman, therefore, becomes not tls
servant of the people who elected MIN
but the helpless agent OF these poii.ica
committeeman. Any man who thus Voluli
| tarily becomes the bond slave or poiltl'
| cal boss is a hypocrite when he assumes
to criticise or runs upon a Platform WhiSt
| criticises other men for following Dlnuis
| the orders of a church.
The McWhirter Incident.
Two Scotchmen came to Salt Lake AMI
mara in fhe most omen and braZeQ manner