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Show CRANE AVD TRUMBO. In the eickness of its heart over the corruption of the republican party. Sunday morning's Tribune contains an article which is a revelation and a wail both in one. It establishes clearly that the popular belief is that Col. Trnmbo ie here for a seat in the senate by the grace of Southern Tacific money and that Crane desires to be governor, and expects the plum only becauEe he is the chairman of the republican executive committee, and in that position has done some service ser-vice to the g. o. p., is shared by the exalted republicans who rooal about the Tribune office. Indeed it requites re-quites but little .effort, with the lights before us, to enable an open-eyed open-eyed citizen to accept both propositions. proposi-tions. At least with this manly declaration of the Tribune we do not intend to dispute either the one or the other. The Tribune speaks in the 1 moBt contemptuous terms of Col. Trumbo's ability. Now a man aspiring to a seat in the senate of the United States and pobsessing the confidence con-fidence of the great corporation named, ought not to be a dunce, quite. In fact he ought to be pretty Binart. A fool with a pot of money can do a world of mischief, especially for his master, and great corporations, while they uee money in the way the Tribune suggests, do not usually chooBe a fool tor their almoner. No, no. We eadly fear Trumbo is not a fool as well as we fear that money has not lost any of its potency in western politics. Every manly and clean citizen of Utah will read the Tribune'6 wail and tremble to think that a man will come here to Utah with the open and avowed purpose of securing a seat in the senate by purchase. This is paying the people of Utah a mighty sorry compliment. We grant that the coalition between Tram bo and Crane seems ominous, and we would advise the clean and decent republicans of Utah to watch it closely, as the democrats will certainly do. The sooner that home as well as foreign aspirants for the political favor of Utah understand that money will not buy it, the better it will be for all concerned. WThere the idea came from that Utah is a rotten borough, in the market, w do not know, but we do know that it is the daty of honest and clean uton-ians uton-ians of all parties, to unite to give the lie to the uncomplimentary implied charge. Col. Trumbo and Col. Crane ehould both be taught that if the one has all the gold California ever dug I and the other all the wool that Utah ever raised, yet Ib each far too poor to buy a seat in the senate or the governorship govern-orship of the state. The Tribune does well to sound the note of warning. It should cry aloud and spare not while these golden and wooly patriots continue to raid the honeet, simple and pure-hearted voters of Utah. In its efforts to beat this insidious in-sidious and dangerous sort of corruption, corrup-tion, it Bhonld not hesitate to come oyer to the democratic camp for help. Join forces if necessary with the party which it has so often been accused of lacking financial sense. It does indeed make a bad showing for Col. Trumbo. His subsidy of men and papers in connection con-nection with the Cleveland convention and his recent visit to New York is graphically set forth in the article of Sunday morning, and the simple publication pub-lication of it ought to cover the men with shame and ignominiously drive them from the Etate. If the good old Trib, will keep this thing up a while, it I will thereby earn the eratitude of the clean people of Utah to a man. |