The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-09-26
BAD NIR. DArGmERTY.

tNns 70 rWAiA the American
county convention into the Democratic
ranks. and which succeeded for a time.
sent a laugh about salt Lake yester-
day that viii be heard for some time
While Colonel Matt is an American. ne
IS also n Democrat. and he has appa-
rently been reading the salt Lake
Tribune. Further than that. ne also
made the mistake OF believing the
Tribune was sincere. and that its own
or and his hired men had the courage
Of their convictions.
Daugherty had read In the Tribune
that tho Payne-Aldrich tariff bin was
. crime. and that the Utah Senators.
and Congressman deserved To- be I'm
jail FOR supporting 10. He read On the
Tribune that Senator Smoot. who was
q member Of the Senate finance com
mittec that framed the Senate bill.
ought TO be hang. drawn and quar-
tered for his share I'm this crime Of the
century. Naturally he felt that i'm the
convention dominated by this organ
there could DO no good reason for not
putting the fadth into words. So ne
did 30.
Daugherty wrote platform plank
condemninE the Senators and the Con-
gresham from this state for support
ing the bill. and denouncing Senator
Sutherland for Keeping the tail from
vagglnr the dog az the BalIingcr-Pin-
chot committee meeting. He suggested
s. in the convention. and it went
through with n whoop. Sergeant Will
liam Nelson. spider editor Of the Trib-
unc. and the chief source 81 the
stream OF venom and vilifiCation that
uours constantly from the columns Of
that ncwspapcr. was chairman Of the
committee on resolutions and wrote
the platform which the state conven-
ton adopted.
Nelson heard the platform read.
and voted for Il with the remainder Of
the convention. 4 few moments later
he had a rlimmer ~ intelligence. He
looked at Colonel Matt the way one
always does az man who can't take
o. joke panied az his action. yet
pleased az discovering some reader Of
the Tribune who really believed that
paper meant what 10 said.
Sergeant Nelson knew that. while
the Hon" Tom Kcarns had been
nursing an ingrown crouch ever since
the people Of Utah decided they had
carried the Joke far enough. and
therefore promptly retired the Hon. 20
- q
forF 70 would not do FOR tho party
which Kearns carries I'm his vest
pocket % 90 on record against the ma
tional policy Of the Republican party.
ILearns and his misguided followers al
ways desire 20 get into decent COM
pany long enough TO have their clothes
fumiEatcd. and they hope % get the
Republican presidential electors on
their ticket two years from now I'm
case tho leaders or the American party
can. keep their followers from think
ing untfl that time.
Therefore. the Kearns hired man
found T. necessary, Go do something
I1asmuch as the convention did not
know what % had done. and cared
lcss. no one. with the exception Of Col
oncI DauEherty., felt called upon q
oppose Nelson. Daugherty was SO
amazed NJ Nelson's desire 60 recon
sider his dcuunciation OF tho mer
whom he viIlfed daily in the Tribune
that 70 was some moments before hs
could find HIS voice. The best n,
could do was a half-hearted defenss
OF his resolution. So tho convention
fearing that Nelson would bite some.
body IN his furry. quickly reconsid.
erred its action.
So tho platform that had beer
clipped from the editorial columns OF
the Tribune stood as originally pre-.
scented by Nelson. and the incident wa,
over.
70 must have been gall and worm
wood 20 the Tribune and the Kearni
crowd to swallow publicly what theii
paper has been printing for years. Yc
IN the interest OF the Kcarns ambition
70 had 20 be done.
Just what punishment 90 which
Ilcarns will sentence Nelson for hi
~itoWAAb tiit 'et'sN-'.o f.'-i''> w ~
put over him in the first place. f. un
known. To compel Nelson to read ont
OF his own editorials probably woul,
be unconstitutional. as Il comes unde
the head Of cruel and unusual pun
fshment. So be gentle. Tom. D.
gentle.
OUR OFFER STILL OPEN.
rs, Saturday Morning The Herald