Show THE HERALD WORSE THAN THE TRIBUNE tho the salt lake herald is in great mental distress tho tile nomination of r J CANNON for delegate to congress has thrown it into spasms it is really in a pitiable condition it declares that sir mr CANNON is i a nobody that his nomination is a disgrace to the intelligence telli gence genco ol 01 the people and that his defeat is an absolute certainty well if his this is true why make such a fuss about itt why occupy columns of space in in discussing a matter of such trivial importance if sir mr ct nox is an agnor unfitted to fill the position for which the republican party has named him tho the fact will bo be disclosed by his campaign his speeches will indicate very clearly what there is in him the tile people after all will leave to decide this matter their combined judgment is certainly worth as much as the dictum of the herald the republican party nominated mr IN f r and it is really none of the heralds business whether the choice was a wise one or not we ask ils its adlico before the nomination and wo we dont invoke it now mr 0 o was not nominated because ol 01 his religious belief or lack of it tho the question was not considered at all the tile republican party believes that there should be no con connection action between a mans church and liis his political party and consequently it is seeking to eliminate tho tile question question from politico politics in in this territory everybody has or lias has had a father and mr is not an exception to the rule because his father happens to ba be a dignitary in the tile mormon church is nothing against him Us ho has never used the fact as a stepping stone to x tion he ile lias has never sought prestige or influence with the church but has gone out in tho the world and engaged in an honorable business hoeing his own row and asking nothing that lie did not secure by hia his onn own efforts if the herald is afraid of church dictation it had bettor better join the liberal party and make a square and manly light fight against division on party lines it should at least bo be aon consistent with itself mr was nominated obe because ha lie was utah born because lie could get closer to tho the people than some one coming here from another state because lio lie was a clearheaded clear headed and enthusiastic republican and because he lie had tho the ability to make a vigorous and nd winning campaign IF if diio tho herald wants to drag the church into thia this campaign it may do so but the republican party will not follow the mormon people are tired of the old fight they would like to see a campaign conducted on principle instead of prejudice the herald talks as it it were a crime for a man born in the mormon church to aspire to this is quite as bad no the liberal party which sought bought to havo them disfranchised dis if alio herald ia is in favor of tho tile gentiles having a corner on the offices it is getting as proscriptive as the democratic newspapers of the south which declare this is a white mans government and that the negro has no rights which the tile white man is bound to respect we unqualifiedly denounce the un american Amerl can course or of the la late to democratic legislative assembly of this territory in titan attempt tIt ln lne to down th the 0 great tic sheep industry ry for I 1 its refusal I 1 to further encourage the production of utah sugar for the open hostility it displayed to the policy of dove lopina the manufacturing industries of the territory UTAH republican PLATFORM 14 |