The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-04
ON A FALSE KEY.


day. seems to have struck false key
The result is .iangling and inharmouy
with fact and conditions. When IT is
noted that he not only defends, but
actually iudorses and praises the
road management Of Commissioner
Mackoy in this county, it will be eri-
dent how far Mr.. Loofbourow strays
from harmony with facts and with pub.
lie sentiment The Mackay road man
agement in this county has been a
sea ndal and disgrace. IT was so bad
that 1T cost Mackay a thousand votes
when he ran for Commissioner to sue.
ceed himself two years ago The senti-
ment against Mackay's road manage.
ment, the fact that be reaps personal ad.
vantage from il for himself and his
trends, building roads for private ends
rather than for public purposes, is so
widespread, so Justly founded, that the
gall of MIR, Loofbourow IN praisiug that
management will strike the public as
something stupendous.
With regard to the achievements of
the Republican party in the Nation,
long ago dwelt upon so fcverishly by
Mr. Loofbourow, 1T is rather late in the
day TO be claiming that the Civil war
was fought by Republicans without
giving the hundreds of thousands of
| patriotic Democrats who offered their
lives on the altar of their country dur.
ing that war, any credit. TO undertake
n s bo
civil war is something so moss backed
and hide bound that we are surprised
to see it even from puppet of the
g Federal bunch
When, further, Mr.. Loofbourow dwels
upon the Republican partys achieve
ments III building the Pacific railroads,
he inevitably calls to mind the Credit
Mobllicr and the unfragrant scandals
connected with that whole business
The war with Spain, so much com
mended, was an utterly needless war,
for Spain had, in effect, granted every
thing that this country was asking for
without any conflict at ALL
Further, Mr.. Loofbourow says that
" The greatest things that have been
accomplished for building the Nation
and power were brought about by the
Republican party That sort of thing
may do well enough to talk TO the Salt
Lake county convention, where the
country at large will take but little no.
tice Of it, but if Mr., Loofbourow were
n,ll laI ,l,
Republican party bad done these things
without any help from the Democrats,
we imagine that he would be pretty
badly stumped.
When Mr., Loofbourow calls upon the
people to forget the local petty quar-
rels and selfish personal iealousies ;"
that are rife, it is impossible to forget
that it is the "Federal bunch whose
mouthpiece he was on this OCCASION that
are making the most of the local petty
quarrels, and stirring up pretty much
all of the selfish personal iealousies
which Mr.. Loofbourow pretends to de-
plore. If the Federal bunch,' on the
one hand, and the church bosses. on the
other. would keep their hands of the
people S affairs and let the voters
manage their politics and civil admins
tration to suit themselves, there would
be q condition of harmony in Utah
which would be soothing balm TO the
general public, but source of rage,
envy and jealousy to the Federal
bunch and to the church ecclesiasts
who are the supporters and abettors of
that bunch.
Mr.. Loofbourow said that he was
proud of the record of Our Senators
and Representatives IN Congress. Well,
it is good thing that somebody is
proud of il. Utah people in gen
eral are very much ashamed of it; that
is, those who have intelligence, and
honesty in their hearts. Howell has
been simply a dummy in the lower
house of Congress. Sutherland has
been the same in the upper house, with
Smoot rampant, ignorant, belligerent.
and contemplate as the leader of the
delegation, he being simply mission
AIRY from his church, and not in any true
sense the representative of the State or
its people.
Coming down TO county affairs, Mr.. |
Loofbourow praised the Mackay road
management, which will cause smile
of derision among all those who are
acquainted with that management.
When, further, he talks about the
finances Of the county, he simply dis
closes the fact that the county commits
soners, by reason of the large and un.
fair increase in the valuations of prop
erty of this city, are able to squander
money by the hatful In graft, ne.
potism, aud waste. That is all that
the Loofbourow Endorsement amounts
to under this head If the county com.
missioncrs would refrain from such
"high finance as they have been en-
gagged in, the people would like it a good
deal better, and would find some re
licf from fheir hurdnns Tho oxcooe;,a