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Show I BETTER GO A LITTLE SLOW. The Tribune's editorial attack on Mr. Salisbury on Thursday last was as depraved in judgment as it was base in instinct and vile in execution. Its assumption that Mr. Salisbury made an attack at-tack upon Mr. Knox was but blackguardism, its-covert its-covert charge that Mr. Salisbury had stooped to any relations whatever with Bruce Johnson was but an exhibition of Indiana backwood's, white-cap white-cap courage and chivalry. Mr. Salisbury's crime it seems was denouncing boodle and bull-dozing. Well the whole city knows that the Republican ticket was nominated by a machine as coarse in its manifestations and unscrupulous un-scrupulous in its methods as ever made boss-rule odious in America, but, despite that, its chief can- didates are personally worthy men and thousands of Republicans want to support them despite the odor of their nominations; want to support them, through personal friendship and because they do not want to vote any save a Republican ticket and because they do not want to see this city in the hands of the party of negation and disaster. But an ounce of sense on the part of the organ or-gan of the machine would have suggested that Mr. James, by open, honorable, fair and square means had almost a majority in the Republican convention; that behind him were thousands of as good men and Republicans, as live; that the votes of these men are much to be desired and that it is no good time to seize the weapons of the blackguard and to begin reading about men out of the Republican party. About three more such editorials as that on Thursday last will fix things. The machine has its innings just now, but its tenure is not impregnable. A good many people will waive some of the uncorth methods ot- a swell-headed boss, but they will not stand very much bulldozing from tho creature that conducts H his organ. That organ yesterday was locally as mean ar it was editorially the previous day. It published the names of perhaps 20 per cent of the convention conven-tion to show that it was made up of good men. Bah! In New York Samuel J. Tilden presided over Boss Tweed's conventions when there was just a sufficient sprinkling of thieves on the floor to carry car-ry everything Tweed's way. The organ should keep in mind that its master may buy an election, elec-tion, but cannot keep people from thinking; no good time to be calling men cowards and traitors simply because they do not like boss methods. It is no good time for the Tribune to begin to read Republicans out of the party, because every Republican vote will be needed on election day. It is no good time to make demands, for the resignation of a member of the National Republican Repub-lican committee, because that provokes some very decent men to inquire if the Republican committee commit-tee would not be improved by some other resignations, resigna-tions, and they have in mind that in public estimation esti-mation another high f fleer of that committee stands on about such grounds as does Arthur Brown, who established that his record was absolutely abso-lutely white, because there was nothing against it but the affidavits of his wife and the confessions con-fessions of "his paramour. For the coming ten days a grain of common sense is needed in the handling of the Salt Lake Tribune. |