| Show A NASTY QUESTION commissioner No lEtRELL Is ia be congratulated 9 ratu he has incurred the displeasure of the salt lake tribune he is treated to about a column and a half of vile abuse because he has attached himself to the democratic organization in thle this city and has bas openly expressed his dissent from liberal ring methods and the disfranchisement policy of its organ the gent lemans chief offense ofie nse however appears to be that during the delegate election campaign he asked aa nasty question of the candidate who was also editor of the tribune that nasty question 1 was how do you stand on the force bill no jo doubt this was a nasty question l to the candidate an advocate of the force bill when trying to get the votes of democrats Demo orate and others who considered that measure oneff tho most moot infamous things ever devised by any party in the united states would naturally teel feel that such a question at such a time was waa a very nasty one to answer but to is there anything really nasty in the interrogation if so BO in what does the nastiness consist if the force bill was a measure that could be defended and that was framed for the good of the country why was there anything nasty in asking a candidate for ewal tion to congress how he stood in relation to the bill the pretended objection of the candidate to being interrogated about it is that a delegate from a territory would have nothing to do with the force bill but even if that Is true it does not make the query about it Is a nasty question A Db delegate legate from a territory however might have something to do with a measure of that kind he might speak in favor of it and use his influence for its passage even if it did not directly affect his hie constituents and voters opposed to the measure might consistently inquire as to the attitude of a candidate upon it before deciding as to whether they would support him at the polls it coull could only be a nasty question because the candidate found it a difficult one to answer when demanding the suffrages frages suf of people who saw in the bill a plan eminently fitted to harmonize with his bin own scheme for the disfranchisement of thousands of law obeying citizens because they did not see through h his to distorted optics we are not acquainted with mr norrell but it appears he has not been a member of the liberal party and does not now propose to be wh whipped upped into its ranks by the scourge which as he showed in bis bin speech has been such a terror to free and independent american citizens he to is not a liberal officeholder neither and therefore need not pay any attention to the liberal demand that such officeholders office holders who are declaring themselves to be either democrats or republicans public ans shall at once resign their places OWN it to is refreshing to see that there are both republicans and democrats who have trained with the liberal party but are now taking their proper places who do not intend to be lashed back into line and who are indifferent as to the curses and libels of the liberal organ it shows shown they have some manhood and independence pen dence and it will be duly appreciated by the majority of the people As an to nastiness neos one has only to read the diatribe of the liberal IJ organ upon commissioner norrell to decide that while the term does hot bot and can not properly apply to his timely question about the force billit billitis Is a very appropriate ate word to designate the at tak made upon him in the ordinary language of the ring organ when it attempts to make an argument 1 I it to is quite probable that the organ will have to face several more nasty questions before its cruel war of hate la Is over |
