The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-08
AN ENENIY,s FLATTERY.

AN ENEMY'S FLATTERY.
When he is alone with his con-
science tomorrow and is reviewing
the part he played in the present cam
paign. B. H. Roberts can lay one flat
tering JUNCTION to his soul. and IL at
lies in the fact that his course has
| been thoroughly approved and COM
mended by the salt Lake Tribune.
| That paper stands with mouth agape
in fervent, although not noiseless, ad-
miratiOn, on the manner in which
Roberts has vilified everybody within
reach. Mr.. Roberts shows that the
admiration is mutual by cribblng
from the Tribune two Of its choicest
expressions: go and see Joe" mean
| ing the. president of the Mormon
church, one Of the choice phrases Of
the Kearns paper and what The he'll
| do I care" an expression attributed
/ to Senator SmOot
The number of words in the Trib-
une vocabulary. limited, it is true,
were scarcely adequate for its editor
yesterday when he took his bottle of
vitriol in one hand. and his bottle of
salve in the other and gave the Rob
| erts' speech of Saturday night his at
/ tention. When the Tribune had fin
! ished. Roberts was like the lady who
collided with the sheet of fly paper,
.'an stuck up" Here is a little of the
Tribune commentator of Roberts
That was blistering speech on
| SmOOt that Mr.. Roberts delivered
in the salt Lake theatre Saturday
evening. He was very effective IN
his dramatic exhibition OF the hu-
mility shown by those who ap-
pealed to the Congressional dele
cation when they closed their
appeal with please answer!
And he brought down the house
when he demanded the production
of the letter which was referred
TO as an answer 10 the telegraph
ic appeal, saying: I'VE do not
plead for this publication, If you
please, but we say Publish II II
you dareE" And the filthy gang
of political buzzards dare not.
Roberts was clustering" accord
ing TO the editor Of the Tribune. and
che was very effective in his dramatic
exhibition" OF course. he was. B.
H. Roberts was born to be an actor.
He is always playing a part, although
had he had the advantage of the
training of a school of dramatic art
he would not permit his feelings to
run away, and say things which he
later is forced to disavow in order to
avoid the spanking which he so rich
ly deserves. Before he goes upon the
platform TO make a speech. Roberts
always practices his gestures before
mirror. He gets them Just so, and
when he turns his leOnine voice loose,
and gets the proper gesture. he
arouses the simple admiration of all
behOldeTs and be-hearers.
The Tribune likens Roberts TO
Cicero. We have all heard the speech
Of the little boy at school of Friday
afternoon, when he recites:
IF 1 should chance to fall below
"Demosthenes and Cicero"
But Roberts did not fall beneath
Cicero, at least, according to the
Tribune. Did you ever see a snake
charm a bird by its laHguishing look
Of utter admiration. until the stupe-
fled and fascinated bird fell an easy
prey? Wonder if the Tribune has any
designs Of that sort upon Mr.. Rob-
erts? Here is the Demosthenes and
Cicero paean:
We believe it Is safe TO say that no
man of manly quality, no states
man." was ever so arraigned be-
fore in the history of ths United
States. Nothing like 1t is on rec
ord since the denunciatiOn re-
ported as made of Cicero by a fell
low senator in the forum at Rome.
And for the credit OF the human
race let US hope that no other
such arraignment Of a man in
high position will ever again be
truthfully possible.
1t was a magnetic. captivating, truth
compelling speech. The audience
was warm and enthusiastically
responsive. II viii be many a DAY
before that animated scene and
the deliberate. emphatic delivery
of living truth viii be forgotten.
1t was DemOsthenes. We believe,
that practiced oratory by the seashore,
filling his mouth with pebbles to COM
pei clear articulation. and at the same
time talking loud enough to drown