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Show THE BEE. 5 News for the goxl of Democracy. It doesn't compare with Pats assumption of the right to scold the Democratic and Republican parties of Utah, and their ceuncilmen in the city. It doesnt compare with Pats appeal to the Mormon leaders to enter the political arena aud help him win a campaign. It doesnt compare with Pats denunciation of certain Democrats for entertaining a fear of what Pat always told them to fear. It doesnt compare with Pats calling the teaehiug of his life time a bugaboo. It doesnt compare with Pats change of front on the Mormou question every six months. It doesnt compare with the Tribunes declaration that all fear of ecclesisastical influence i9 not only dishonest, but deeply insulting as well, to the church thus put under suspicion and in contempt. In all this world there are few men who, with such a record on the local question, running down to the last year, (long since division came) would have the cheek to talk about the cheek of auy other person. For a Democrat to vouch for the Republicanism of an acquaintance who is a real Bepublicin, is not as cheeky as any one of a thousand things the Tribune does annually. one-tent- h The latest outbreak of the Tribune was an editorial in last Wednesdays issue. It was a frantic attempt to enlist the authorities of the dominant church under its banner, a call upon them for assistance in the coming campaign, a demand similar to that made upon them last fall by the great boss just before the city election. It seeks to arouse a prejudice and encourage an influence it has always condemned. It says in substance: Certain Democrats are fearful that church influence will be used against their party. This is an insult to you leaders of the church. Therefore get into the fight and punish In the folthe Democrats for their suspicions. lowing words it shows its infamy and hypocrisy : But if anything could possibly provoke the Mormon church into an attitude and active opposition to the Democratic party it would, we should suppose, be this continued shout of alarm lest it might do so, this trumpeting that the Democratic party is afraid the church is going to jump onto it and stamp it out. Is it possible for the political heeler to play a more desperate game of politics than the great political boss is playing? In the face of his record too? In defiance of his files? Is there a . calls The Deseret News opportunely . on the attention to the surprising number 5h,p of men hanging around the different departments of the city government, watching foi a chance to draw a little or a great deal of public money, for real or alleged services, as the case, respectively, may be. Now and then the mayor sends in the name of one, but by far the larger number are waiting, having been promised positions in the event of Caines confirmation. The News doesnt mention these particulars, but hits the nail squarely on the head, nevertheless. ' says the News, a man seems to think it a creditable thing for him to go to an r and beg for a subordinate position, in or tender. exchange for it, the vote or support of a combination. The spirit of independence which made the Salt Laker of olden time scorn to become a supplicant for public pap, and to strike out on his owd hook for a living, has been replaced by contemptible truckling and servility that are pitiful to behold. It is a most unwholesome condition ; one which generates the germs of political corruption of all kinds. Mr. Caine ought to be ashamed of himself. The News has watched his political career carefully,' and doubtless with some envy until of late. And it knows whereof it speaks. The mayor ought to trim his sails a bit too, now that the News has declared against this sort of thing. Barnacle Now-a-day- s, who takes to politics hangs around public officials just as the New7s says. The one who leans to religion hangs around the authorities of some Both are parasites, both church organization. problems. Some of them wear good clothes and make a good appearance. But they expect an easy living at the expense of the church or the state, they are ever ready to lick up the crumbs of patronage which fall in their vicinity, and are always anxious to gossip and impart to their patron the sort of information he would rather hear, regardless of its accuracy. There is no organization, civil, Military, ecclesiastical, political, or professional, but has its hangers-on- . office-holde- To have a tilt with the News or Herald About is fun for The Bee, which never takes Cheek! the Tribune without a tear of jggue regret. But once in a while the organ of the typical boss gets off a joke so quaint that a fewT jibes are necessary to accompany it. For instance, the other morning it said : Tfllk non-partisa- ever-recurrin- g lower deep? The mining congress committee could have made no better selection of a press agent. Mr. William Ingleheart is popular, enterprising and well qualified in every particular. He has had newspaper experience in Chicago and Salt Lake City, was city editor of the Tribune for several years, is connected with a mining company at present, and The Bee knows him as one of the best fellows in the world. n David Dunbar, as indorser for the Republican party of be Register of the Land Office here, is Utah of McGrew-to the cheekiest thing of the year. defeat along the whole line is generally So let it be in this case, followed by peace. says the News, referring to the Caine appointment which, it says, completes the list. And there is no denying the fact that the charge of committee was gallant as it the may prove exorbitant ; and the council majority was trampled under the feet of its chargers. As the News intimates, there is nothing now to do but treat or retreat. A semi-centuria- That doesnt compare with Pat Lannans dorsement of a man for the same position. For Pat fought McKinley as hard as did any Demo crat. It doesnt compare with Pats endorse. It doesnt ment of Whittemores compare with Pats endorsement of John T. en- n gold-bugism- There are hangers on and hangers-on- . They cling to the ship of state like barnacles ; they stick to the church like warts, The one - It doesnt compare with Caines Democracy. Pats endorsement of Powers interview in the The portrait of Judge C. W. Bennet adorns he cover page this week. |