Show Traitorous Threats The chief of the Tuscaroras has done all he could for his tribe in the way of endeavoring en-deavoring to obtain offices for them We are not able to see that lie has accomplished ac-complished or is likely to accomplish anything any-thing in that line It is not very probable proba-ble that encouragement will be given to a faction that fights the regular party in matters that not only affect local issues but national affairs At the last election for Delegate in Utah the Tuscaroras claiming to be Democrats voted against the candidate of the party and in favor of a Liberal joining with others who claimed to be Republicans That was something more than a contention conten-tion for mere local issues and stamped the Tuscaroras as hostile to the Democratic party in this Territory The plea of their chief then that they are Democrats in everything except as regards a local dispute dis-pute is nothing but the special pleading of a biased and interested attorney That gentleman in our opinion has greatly damaged their case If his correspondent cor-respondent has told anything like the truth about the interview with Col LAMONT POWERS has betrayed a disposition dis-position on the part of his tribe which will not recommend itself to any sincere person he be Democrat or Republican He was interrogated by the Secretary of War in regard to what he desired and expected ex-pected for the people he represented and was then asked What are you going to do U you are not recognized He replied that a9 tft himself ho would always be a Democrat But said he Utah will not be a Democratic state I am at the head of 1500 Democratic voters of Salt Lake city who belong to the I ro Tuscarora society and I know that after having at great expense presented their cause to a partisan and packed committee at the Chicago convention if they are ignored ig-nored now I will say nothing as to the consequences further than that Utah will probably come into the Union as a Republican state That is a nice nest of Democrats is it not After fighting the regular party and training with its enemies it bobs up when patronage is in sight and clamors for office If it is ignored as it ought to be on every known rule of politics and sound policy it will either hold back when the critical time comes and refuse to aid the party to which it pretends to belong or will go over to the enemy and do its utmost to defeat the Democratic party from which it now wants favors It there is anything more infamous than this that any pretended supporters of a political party can be guilty of what is it POWERS in this answer unwittingly unwit-tingly exposed the animus of the clique that is now grasping after official influence influ-ence He who fails to see the spirit which actuates the Tuscarora chief and his tribe must be blind indeed I We want certain offices he says virtually and if we dont get them we will defeat the Democratic party as to a State in the Union We are of the opinion that there are quite a number of members of his society who will repudiate his shameful sentiments and refuse to be governed by such a traitorous policy as that which he foreshadows There are or have been men in that faction who have too much honor and too much good sense to take such a courseand if they have not always done so they ought to come out at once and denounce his despicable threat The Tuscarora chief sees that statehood is imminent expresses his willingness to meet the change and adapt himself to the conditions it will bring but threatens that unless the 1500 whom he claims to control are placated by patronage which they do not deserve they will stab the Democratic party in the back play havoc and betray the territory That ought to settle the patronage question at once and show the utter unfitness of people who have no higher sense of honor than it discloses dis-closes to hold any office under this government gov-ernment a place in the party that stands at the head of national affairs |