Show I COrLIMENTS DONT GO The Tribune pleads guilty It doesnt even attempt to prove an alibi this time It says that The Herald must have had n lawyer prepare the indictment in-dictment under which It wInces and to which It doggedly replies Well what of it We appreciate the unintentional but eVidently sincre compliment conveyed in our neighborS lawyer story but the offenses of which it stands con I ted t-ed are not to be overlooked on account oflttle taffy like that Al pepublican organ is insincere lncb nsistent and utterly unreliable in ile fight it is making for the Rpubli I can parfy of Utah and for the elec itloI of Alma Eldredge whose candidacy I candi-dacy it has endorsed Our co temporary tempo-rary approved in 1895 for p relY party I asons that which It critlcbes today for purely party reasons There was an actual case to complain of in 1895 Ecclesiastical condemnation of a ticket for the sole purpose of defeatIng defeat-Ing it and discIplining the members of a political party was heartily approved ap-proved by the Republican organ in 1895 Religious meetings were used in this way and the highest authorities in the dominant church were applauded by the Tribune when they began to apply that system of discipline which is obnoxious ob-noxious only when apparently the Republican Re-publican party ceases tQ be the beneficiary benefi-ciary It is not for one who played the crInging sycophant in 1895 who laughed to scorn the honest efforts of an earnest earn-est people who ridiculed the very Idea of resenting ecclesiastical Interference in conventions or with party tickets to I rave about such conditions now when they onlyexlst in the feverish imagin I ation of a disgruntled boss If churchmen have the power to do what the Republican organ speaking for the Republican party of Utah says they are doing why should Republicans Re-publicans complain If the influence once abandoned as our neighbor says has been reasserted if the sway has been reestablished we maintain that the Republicans of utah and their organ or-gan held the entering wedge while it was being driven home And judging from past experience if there arc problems prob-lems in Utah politics to solve if there are evils to cure it devolves upon the Democratic party to bring about the change In its own good time without depending for one moment upon the treacherous disposition of those who have been tried already and found wanting without looking for aid to men or papers who j shed when they should have been serious I |