The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-11-20
ITS WILD ARRAIGNMENT

|
ing slavish for SmooL for good while,
came out with a bigtype editorial for
him yesterday morning, telling what
great things he had done, and arraign.
ing number of Democrats in Utah
for their opposition to the Smoot poll.
cies. AT the same time in its repro
duction on the same page, of public
opinion as expressed in "leadiug ed.
torials, - IL could find nothing worth
copying in any Republican newspaper,
but contiucd itself entirely to excerpts
from Democratic newspapers.
It arraigned Mossrs. Jesse Knight,
Richard w. Young. James II. MoyIc.
Farley L. Williams, John Dcrn, Horace
G. Whitney, II. II. Rolapp by name
and other Democrats as 4 mass, for
opposing Smoot, alleging, as their
great ofensc, that ''they had fought
Smcot ever since he entered public
iife, had opposed him Mt every oppor
tunity. and If they could have their
way, be would be promptly retired
| from the Senate. So far, however.
from considering the retirement Of
Smoot a calamity, there are plenty
who, remembering his curt reply TO the
carded wool men, What the hell do
care If The country does go Demo
cratic1" would be glad TO see him
retired from the Senate. as a man who
IS neither competent for the position
nor sincere in the views he takes Of
public questions For how could a
genuine protective tariff man refuse
protection TO the carded wool manu-.
facturers any more than to the worsted
wool manufacturers And how can
party leader be excused when he
openly expressed the opinion that he
does not care If the opposition party
winsl
In saying what he did TO the carded
wool men, Smoot gave away his case
entirely, and cut the ground out from
under his own feet by proclaiming his
insincerity and reckless indifference
whether his party won or not But if
Smoot cared nothing about whether
the Democratic party won or not, it is
rather late in the day for his organ to
be getting up walls aud shrieks about
the Democratic success, and entirely
out Of place for ii to arraigu num-
Der of prominent Democrats bv name.
because they had the audscity TO fight
Smoot, oppose his policies and de-
sire to see him retired from the Seu.
ate That appears, in fact. TO be the
great grievance Of the organ. Ii can
not persuade the public that it is
chagrined at the defeat of the Repub-
boss cares nothing about that. But
since Smoot cares nothing about the
Democratic victory, the attempt OF his
organ TO show that disaster is going
to come upon this region BY reason of
the Republican defeat, the organ
thereby challenges Smoot S judgment,
and denounces him as a foe TO this
country; for surely il viii not argue
that Smoot would be indifferent to a
change of National policy that would
industries. 1t must be, therefore, that
the organ is insincere in assuming that
the Democratic victory will bring ruin
to these industries; for, if that were
the case, Smoot could hardly say, as
he did say, to the carded wool manu-
facturers, ''What the hell do | care
If the country does go Democratic9'
Surely, Smoot cares whether the wool,
sugar, and lead industries of this re-
gion are ruined or not. The logical
conclusion, therefore, must be that
Smoot does not think the Democratic
triumph will ruin these industries;
since il he thought that, it would be
impossible for him to be Indifferent
as he proclaimed himself to be. to
Democratic triumph.
The organ. therefore. has put its
great boss IN an extremely unfavor-
able light in its big.type outcry yes.
terday morning; for the calamity that
il urges as necessary TO follow the
Democratic triumph, cannot be in fact
threatened or Smoot would not sav
be cared nothing about the Demo.
| cratic success: and IN urging. in spite
Of Smcot. that this calamity must
necessarily come, the organ is not only
cutting Smoot s ears rouudly for an
| iguoramus, but is guilty Of an in.
sultng srraignment of number of
| Democrats. who certainly have as
much al stake IN the country as the
writer Of the diatribe through which
| they were arraigned. The organ does
not seem 10 sense the fact that in MAX
ing its attack yesterday morning. il
attacked Smoot harder than IL attacked
anybody else; while its attempt 10
make Smoot 5 opinion and Smoot g
acts the criterion for everybody 10 fol.
low under pain of public arraigumcnt
and insulting assault. is comically i'm.
beetle.
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