Show ITSELF AGAINST ITSELF We shall have to spring the deadly parallel on the Tribune once more because be-cause it is so ready to try that device when it thinks to score a point against the Democrati party In each effort it I has essayed it has recorded a palpable failure I In Mondays issue returning to its previous vomit against the administration I administra-tion charging it with the responsibility of the prevailing distress it once more finds fault because the President did not last March call Congress together and in a message declare that silver should be recognized as money to the full that American manufactures should be favored us against the cheap labor of other lands that no raid was contemplated or would be tolerated to rupture established trade relations and conditions Instead of that it says C The Administration did not rise to the occasion but acted precisely on wrong lines demanded the demonetization of silver and renewed the threat of murder against American industries in-dustries Passing by the positive and wilful falsehoods false-hoods in the latter part of the Tribune harangue let us quote its own language when the Boston Herald intimated something some-thing which it construed to mean a departure de-parture from the tariff reform plank of tae Democratic platform It denounced this as one 01 the immoralities of politics poli-tics and said it was utterly immoral reprehensible and despicable Also It is amazing that a paper of the standing of the Boston Herald should seriously seri-ously argue that the President is under no obligation to carry out the pledges of his party to the people in last years platform plat-form If this view of the Boston Herald should become the accepted one in American Ameri-can politics then political campaigns in this country would mean nothing at all For if a party is not to be judged by and held up to its declarations during a cam paign in which it may win success then there is no party accountability and the people then have nothing to hope or fear in the event of the success or defeat of any party Heretofore iu this country as in others It has been the accepted rule that a party going before the people and winning an election on certain avowed principles was bound by its pledges to arry out those principles in case it had the power to do so One more quotation from the same Trib ihe editorial August 14 We do not believe that the mass of the Democratic party or the Democratic administration ad-ministration will consent to a desertion of their declared principles such as is demanded de-manded by this Boston mugwump paper It would be scandal in American political party responsibility to suppose for a moment mo-ment that consent could be had to such a conscienceless programme Now if what the Boston Herald suggested sug-gested was so utterly infamous and despicablE des-picablE how much better is it coming from the Salt Lake Tribune and from various va-rious RepublIcan sheets in and out of this territory Also how can the Presidents announcement that tariff reform will have to wait until the financial question is disposed dis-posed of be such a c threat and a menace vrhcn It is admitted that a failure to carry out the policy of the tariff reform platform would be infamous immoral im-moral and a prostitution of American politics Our neighbor is unfortunate in its suggestion sug-gestion of the deadly parallel and also In the possession of a very poor memory which according to an old adage is particularly par-ticularly damaging to the class to which it belongs |