The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-23
Concentration of Power.

Most of our business is done through
corporations. They hold our local courts
in contempt and organize without the
state In which they intend to do business
so that when they are sued they can re-
move the case into a federal court. and
compel the individual to travel with his
witnesses hundreds OF miles to try his
cause. The whole effort is to concentrate
the power at Washington The power of
the people is being taken from the peO-
pie, and the time has come to declare that
this is a government Of the people by
the people and for the people, and that
the people shall rule.
1T is manifest that the people have not
ruled here in Utah since the advent to
power of the Republican party; and in
saying this, l am not referring to gum
shoers,' 'whisperers' and the purveyors of
alleged information from ecclesiastical
sources; neither am l referring to the
weakness of individuals in being per-
suaded from their conscientious political
choice by an appeal to their religious
sentiment. / am referring to a we'll
known fact, and that is. that the seat Of
government has been and is at Provo,
and that the Photographic records there
ing pictures gathered at the federal
building.
The Case of Cutler.
Now. Governor Cutler has made a
good governor, as Republican governors
go, and under all the precedents and rules
governing political conduct he was en-
titled to a denomination In his inno-
cence he evidently thought so himself,
for he announced his candidacy to the
state, as he had a right 10 do under a
free government. But II was apparent
that he had lost favor with the ruler of
the Republican party. Forgetting for a
moment whom he served as governor of
this state, and thinking that it was his
duty to serve the people, he had appointed
as the head of the state guard of Utah
a Democrat, who had brought that disor-
ganized department of the state to a
high degree of efficiency But the man
he named was not a Republican. and in
the eyes of the rulers of the Republican
party of Utah an objectionable sin had
been committed. So Cutter was COM
PEELED to stand aside and United States
Marshal Spry, whose principal claim to
prominence was his declarations that for
every Republican lost to the American
party two Democrats would be set apart
from the Democratic party to fill the
ranks. was announced as the candidate,
and the delegates met at the Republican
state convention from all over the state
of Utah and ratified this selection. and
subsequently carried out the will of the
federal office holders, who control the
Republican destinies in this state
What Happened to the Organ.
Not only that. For weeks the newspa-
per that boasts that 1t is the official or
gan of the Republican party of Utah had
advocated local option, the prohibition of
the liquor traffic in Utah. 1t had created
a sentiment in favor of a declaration to
that effect by the Republican state con-
vention. In the meantime a powerful or
ganiZation of brewers of this state and
of the nation took the matter up and
made a deal with the Republican organ
ization, and the voice of the Republican
voters of this state upon that subject was
stifled and the declaration upon that
question was throttled.
apparently promises have been made
giving the liquor traffic greater advan-
tages in the future than it has had here
tofore, in consideration of the support of
the liquor dealers in the present cam
paign. And 1t is manifest that the brew
ers who finance and conduct, through
their agents and servants, the low dives
called saloons in our larger cities. in
which crimes are planned and murders
are committed. are to be protected from
any legislation. II Republican legisla-
ture be chosen.
What We need in this state is a prf-
mary law, 50 that the people In advance