Salt Lake Herald | 1900-03-30 | Page 4 | J. T. Hammond: Pachyderm

t d dT J T HAMMOND PACHYDERM r 1 U Mr James Trust Hammond by si sl silence 1 J lance lence has bas endorsed the position of the 1 newspaper that nominated him That i 4 paper declares Utah is a state of ot ori I i pledge r Mr Hammond says j privately that the charge pains him t dna na is false f lse but on rn the platform he endorses by ignoring It I His organ and chief hief supporter says voters of t tan have no regard for tor J Jaw 15 Does Docs Hammond protest Not where he can be heard i t f The organ makes a bid for support t with the th assertion that Utah is In an un fJ 1 t American state incapable of keeping 1 1 faith with the nation and unworthy of or confidence Mr Hammonds only plat platform platform 41 form response re Is a hush huek so profound I 1 It can be hard hir h ard from Logan to Kanab t Himself a Utah men Mr Hammond Hammon i 1 Js h willing to accept votes purchased by l I acquiescence in these calumnies against r the state He knows his election in T view of his silence would be b pointed to by outsiders as a confession by the j people that the charge of ot pledge 1 breaking is true And yet he is will willing willing t ing to go the campaign to its J 1 erid erl without declaring publicly pubU ly what wha he says privately that his organ Is misrepresenting the state stat injuring its h business busin driving away kers H and retarding its progress by unwar unwarranted unwarranted unwarranted ranted calumny Most honorable men would be can sen sensitive enough to resent such a situa situation situation situation tion even at the risk or of losing being office f Mr Hammond it seems ems has hag a hide hider c r thick enough to stand most anything an i provided be he can we M e a political hay ha It bale at the other end and of oC the trail He Heis H HIs f i is indeed a Tidy TId Pachyderm as KIP i ling would say sa