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Show WHAT GOOD DOES IT DO'! We have stood in awe before the wonderful cheek of the Tribune ever eince the election, in the matter of counting the vote3 officially. One would think from a perusal of its coir umns, that every ballot box stuffier in the union had come to Utah and is plying hie vocation here right along without let or hindrance. Every morning morn-ing those democratic beasts on the Utah commission are held up in choicest choic-est English to the scorn of the world, or at least, that part,pf it which enjoys the inestimable privilege of reading the Tribune. Its ingenuity in twisting, revamping and turning old charges in order to fit them to do duty now, in the manufacture of all Borts of possible and impossible situations and motives to suit the case, will become the wonder, won-der, if not the admiration of the age. We do not believe there ever was a more plodding, matter of fact set of officers than this same board of Utah commissioners. Nor has a eingle shade or suspicion of dishonest count methods been fastened upon them. They have worked faithfully and honorably and have found and straightened out many a knot in the rather awkward and badly bad-ly managed election of the 6th of last November. Nor can we find where they, or any dingle memWr of the body, has attempted any sort of crooked work. It has resulted in the discovery of as many democratic irregularities irreg-ularities in the mode of holding the election a3 republican. Its scrutiny has resulted in here and there unseating unseat-ing a democrat, and there and here a republican, but as yet no man has had ths temerity to form a specific charge against the board or ary one of its members. Yet, notwithstanding all this, no single issue ot the Tribune appears ap-pears which does not contain its own proper modicum of covert concealed and wicked charge of dishonesty and partisan bias against the board. It is about time some of these charges be established, or for the paper in ques tion to stop. Human nature,or,rather, good nature, cannot stand the eternal nagging forever. The board will and must ultimately turn upon its persecutor perse-cutor and when it does it will be but a sorry day for the great republican organ or-gan of the territory. They have a half dozen good libel suits in what it has published of the board as a whole and about individual members of it as well. We defy any partial friend of the paper pa-per to deny this statement. What is its motive, what is behind this undignified and petty warfare? What does the Tribune expect to make of it? Does it contemplate a verdict against the republican party in the matter cf the constitutional convention? conven-tion? Or Is it just keeping its armor bright for next year's bloody fray. If 8a, it is very unwise, for the unworthy battle has disgusted many of its party adherents who will vote with the democrats dem-ocrats next year in consequence of this ignoble fight at innocent men honestly doing their duty as they see it. From a journalistic staad-point the policy pursued is most wretched. Whoever , brings a charge which is not established, clearly weakens hicnsaif, aad when th , motive is sordid or unworthy in any way, the paper acting thus receives a serious injury in the loss of. the confidence confi-dence of its readers, and a consequent reduction in the volume of its profits. The Tribune is copying from the bad Dana, the editor of the bad and most wicked New York Sun, but it ought to consider the difference there is to be found between ; New York and Salt Lake. Dana has a constituency in New York which the Tribune can never have in Salt Lake. Dana can live if every respectable man and honest woman of Gotham should hermetically seal their doors against the Sun.but in SaltLake it takes many decent people to help out the bad in furnishing daily bread for the Tribune. Let the screechings stop now, since a halt is called. |