The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-03

to present resolutions at the Denver con-
vention spon ex-President Cievelands
death. Colonel Henry Watterson says:
The attempt to drag the dead body
of Grover Cleveland from Its new made
grave into the tumuit of national cor
vention Will deceive no one. An invasion
of the grief of the noble lady who weeps
amid the silerce and the solitude of the
granite hills. a blow at party concord.
IL Is the act Of shameless hypOcrite.
Nor was ever professional ghoul inspired
by a mole mercenary spirit because the
sole aim and end of the Murphy-Conn0rs
crowd. aided by Judge Parker is the per-
petuation Of the ascendancy of the Bel
mont-Ryan con. oination to- which Democ-
racy owes its last ignominious and we'll
deserved defect. II was Behlont-Ryan
money that financed Judge Parker's CAM
paign for the nomination in 1904. II war
Belmont-Ryan money that nominated him
made an antitrust movement under such
q brand absurd and impossible.
Shameful and DisgracefuI.
at seemed fitting that, having made
sacrifices for predatory wealth. Judge
Parker should have his recompense in a
rich law practice in the city Of New
York. He has had il. ano with II and It's
That he should emerge from this highly
paid obscuracy TO make trouble through
sheer malevolence We're pitiable indeed:
but that he should appear. backed by
ton thieves. appealing to Jefferson and
T'lden, the dead body of Cleveland
stretched upon the dissecting table, is dis
graceful.
ut is not only disgraceful. but It's mo-
tive is grotesquely and transparency OBJ
vious The wing of the Democratic party
in the state OF New York to which Judge
Parker and the group with which he is
now acting belonged was the David Ben
net Hill wing. They were the inveterate.
the implacable enemies of Grover Cleve-
- Ii L l.,t1 L
Although amid the gloom OF defeat a
kind of Truce was reached. there was
never deal. amnesty or oblivion on
either side, so that the scheme to recall
the shade of Cleveland and to set this
up as deaths head in comedy of a mock
funeral would be too dastardiy and 100
CHASTITY for belief If ii were not the last
desperate play of a clique OF discredited
any cost.
Compared to Body-Snatchers.
Standing about the open grave of Nc.
SS ,.e those of us who knew him. but
Old not always approve him or agree
with him, We're not only willing that by
cones should be bygones, but that the
good alone should live after him. He is
oead he sleeps with those that went be-
Tore. from jefferson to 'Tilden and his
tory can be trusted to do him no injus-
nee Resurrected at Princeton and pro-
CLAIMED at Denver. his name spells fire,
brand and only fire-brand. and fire-brand
Is the sole initiative and purpose of the
body snatcher who proposes to use II TO
conJuTe dssension whilst they try 10 coz
rupt delegates.
In Mr.. Bryan and a reunited party
Democrats saw nope of victory On none
other was there the smallest hope OF
union. That they reason truly has been
shown by the fact that with the Ryan
Belmont BARI on tap and its agents fly
Ing about in every direction. state after
state. refusing To be tempered with or
tainted, has declared for the Nebraskan.
Seeing this. Judge Parker is put forward
to deliver the final stroke of the bravo.
and under the pretense of hOnoring the
memory OF Cleveland. to plunge blade
reeking with poison artfully prepared ipto
the heart of Democracy That he SHOULD
lend himself 10 such villainy Will en-
gulf him In the score of honorable men
and the detestation of thoughtful Dem
Ocrdts.
Defeat Preferred to Debauchery.
There is no more reason why a Demo-
cratic national convention should go out
of it's way to signaliZe one former Dem
ocratic president than another; why IL
should rush upon Cleveland with 4
frenzy of wor Is than with hysterical
Shrek ii should rush upon Buchanan
each. Buchanan and Cleveland having
had the misfortune TO divide the party.
The spectacle In the case OF Mr. Buchanan
would lack common sense. In the case OF
Mr.. Cleveland ii lacks both common sense
and common deeency. AS Wen org up
the will of Mr.. Tllden, winch Judge Tai
ker decided against the instructions ana
wishes OF the sage of Greystone, ana
make 1t the subject of euiogy, 1or tle
sake of controversy. As well invoke tne
spirits of the warning Democrats or 1879
and seek TO force the Douglas men -
paw tribute TO the Breckenridge men
Under any condition and from any quar-
ter the proposal to revitalize old quarreis
by preamble and resolution on the tnresh-
old of a national movement Wouiu DS
thrown out as insane. Coming from con,
nors and Murphy, from Belmont am am
Ryan from Parker and Sheenan IL VIII
be thrown out as Infamous Iney may