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Show The Tribune bits the Standard, a devil of a lunder in passing, in its article ar-ticle headed, "An Uun warrantable Defense" of llonday morning. But the simple truth is that the Tribune has hitherto dealt very harshly with the Standard as well as the outside towns generally. Salt Lake is beyond question the leading city in tie territory, terri-tory, and as such, is entitled to a potent po-tent and powerful voice la the settlement settle-ment of territorial matters, but the would not hurt her own interests much by a liberal and just policy at ths same time, toward the outeide towns. We glory in the importance and progress of Salt Lake. We would nt plunk a feather from fcer lofty plume if m cur power to do bo, but, at the Dame tima, we muat care for ourselves. We sa iiy fear that the Tribune and. some otber Ss.lt Lake influence will never be able to fully value Delegate Thurman'j ilorbearancs in the matter rf locating the permanent capital. Ten HeialJ is very correct In the position it now assumes that old sores bould not be ripped ur, and if tbe od quarrels are alluded to as sometimes seems necessary, it should be done in a forbearing and charitable manner. It is in the light of such sentiment a8 V -. these that its distempered reply to Mr. Dininny's letter seems so needless and in such bad policy. If the Herald had refused entirely to publish Mr. Die inny's letter, and when published elsewhere, else-where, had refused entirely to notice it, tbe paper had acted wisely and up to the party policy it new lays down. The trouble is that these noble sentiments senti-ments come only after a aeiionB mistake mis-take has been made and when it iB too la'.e to reverse. We need democratic votes acl jiny policy wh ch tends to decrease de-crease the number or to hazard one single vote is bad, altogether bad Let the Herald never foreet. Only three more votes and Provo would beve been the capital of Utah. It is dreadful to urlct upon what the situation would have been if the mat-t mat-t r had turned in our favor. However, the only serious diffi ulty would have been in moving Salta'.r aud Garfield down and in making a ealt eea of our beautiful freeh water lake. In time we might have succeeded in reconciling reconcil-ing them to fresh water, but just now it seems a cloudy and difficult dream. Delegate Thurman must not be too ee-verfslv ee-verfslv flamed. Surely the temptation to vote this great boon to his own home must have been dreadful and it doubtless require! a great effort to re frain. We confess that we should have yielded. We could never have resisted. The Herald has an easy and rather jaunty way of meeting the Tribune's charge that there is a row between it and Mr. Din'nny. If Dininny's letter nd the Herald's three and one-half column reply doesn't make what is commonly called a quarrel, then what does it make, may we ask? We are among those who do not think that the quarrel will affect tbe party to any remarkable re-markable or dangerous degree, because such attacks as tbiB one, made without sufficient solid facts, rarely accomplish much, and the power of the Herald to very greatly affect the party is limited. As a special pleader on petty and moral subjects it baa established an identity. As a democratic champion it has no identity whatever. It really does seem that the revolution revolu-tion in Cuba is in a very bad way. A few more brave men sacrificed in the struggle with tyranny, that is all. How-ever, How-ever, it will be prudent to take all re-reports re-reports from Spanish sources "cum grano sails." Two youths were killed Sunday near Butlerville by a stroke of lightning. Their names are JoBeph Maxfield and E. Webb. The latter was not dead when the report closed, but the former was killed almost instantly. That there is trouble and of a very Berioas character in the republican party in Utah, 10 very evident. Now what is needed ia democratic harmony, and a heavy effort to widen aud deepen deep-en the republican quarrel. The war on the Jordan aeems over Nothing was heard vesterdav from either Dininny or the Herald. Storms as violent as that was are usually short lived. But it was a corxer while it la3ted,sure enough. Gov. McConnell of Idaho Is yery intent upon the entire success of our free Bilver demonstrat.on at Salt Lake upon May 15th. Doubtless the occasion occa-sion will be a great one and good will come of it. |