Show AN UNPROFITABLE THEME The following Is n labored leader in the Mantl Messenger Tho Salt Lake Tribune editorially any that a feu voters who cant their foiillot for McKlnloy four years JIKO are Idiots A few politicians In this Suite who sorm to think polLhwH HUCICSH of 11 I Republican parly 1 In I hiM State depend entirely on Tho Salt Luke Tilbnnc will vo are afraid the moot with Home disappointment If they 1t wih 11mI en n 11 mi o to t swallow the deadly mcdicmo t hu t paper Is I feeding them I oreanlonallv I tliov miiHt ivmombor Unit rue inmmo nnot Ion assure the Republican party In tills a victory Them are other papers Stale that have sonIc Influence ind I scorns they dn not agree with The Tribune ehuu to une on Hie nninc they have eii Klvo unp lit 01 MeKlnlev Republicans It la 1 certaInly cer-tainly too bail that some of our SUIte leider ann willing to tike nil kinds of Insults In-sults from that paper nnd still gIC them t I the glorv for everything xvhen they know very well that If The Tribune eannot havn 1 Its wel It would prefer knifing every I I candidate on the ticket The people are I awakening to that fact too and If some i changes lire not made tho Republicans I voter of Utah 1 will make a change them I sovo I I IK I bad policy to abuse true and faithful Republicans to make other come I In line I The Republican party ihould rid I Itself of disgruntled olllee eekers who are at any time apt to voto a Democratic j cured for ticket If theY are not well politically 1 I I I We publish the above In full because It seems to please a fow papers In the I State to put out hat I kind of stuff There was to be a State convention In a few days to elect delegates to the Philadelphia convention The Tribune had no candidates within or without this office and If people within this ofllce had personal preferences they j were not once mentioned in this journal jour-nal But two or three Journals In the State kept repeating day after day that men who did not vote for McKinley in I 1SOC must take a back Beat Those were not the exact words of course but that I was the meaning We said that such men were Idiots We still say so and for the plain reason that all the I hope Republicans have of winning the State In November is to secure the vote of those same men and it was and iiil be Idiotic to continually antagonize them This is the more apparent when we reflect re-flect that It is 1 flying In the face of more men in Utah than voted for McKinley I four years ago Now a word more What does the Messenger think It means by the deadly medicine that paper is feeding them Again what does It mean when it charges that if I The Tribune cannot have its say it would prefer knifing every candidate on the ticket What Is going to prevent The Tribune having Its say9 I Again what candidate on the ticket has The Tribune ever knifed Again what changes can Republicans I make or rather what changes would the Messenger have made If It could Again what does the Messenger mean by disgruntled officeseekers There are none on The Tribune More there arc no candidates on The Tribune either active or receptive When four years ago The Tribune In purauance of what it esteemed a duty advocated the I election of Mr Bryan It did It with the I full knowledge that it was placing i i Itself in a position where no rewards would follow no matter how the election elec-tion might result and It has in no I form received or asked any reward since neither the paper nor any one connected with I What then is the Messengers complaint com-plaint That we said that men who would insist upon trying to drive away the majority of men who are disposed to vole the Republican ticket were Idiots I tho Messenger thinks it Is not so it had better reduce Its idea to a sum In arithmetic and see how it will figure up on election day |