| Show I POOR WRETCHES 7 The Tribune this morning has a long I article entitled Pity the Sorrows etc q in which it tells of the hunger of Democrats Demo-crats for office After treating the question ques-tion general it treats it locally and makes this comment upon Utah Democrats Demo-crats In the meantime the hungry crowd t wait impatiently and there is trouble all around About the most anxious set are the poor wretches in Utah who are looking for Democratic manna Their shrieks are growing shrill and loud daily they remind one of a coyote who nears a sheep corral after a heavy snow storm The odor of mutton is in the air even while the pangs of hunger are wrenching his vitals and there is only a fence between be-tween him and a bonanza But he cannot can-not pull down the fence neither can he scale it and so on his shrunken haunches he wails his sorrows forth to the philess moon It is a hard case surely 0 J Let those Democrats who may have applied 4 ap-plied for an office in Utah remember t that the Tribune is an U American anti Mormon paper and says that there are no politics in Utah Let them also remember re-member that when a Democratic ticket vas in the field that this u American I Ameri-can antiMormon paper did all in its power to harm that ticket and termed those who were doing all in their power to make Democracy triumphant a squad andsaid that it is clear enough to those who have watched these patriots from the J r firstthat xeally they are but the tail of J the Mormon kite Let the Democrats of Utih remember that at the last meeting meet-ing which was held during this same campaign t cam-paign there spoke Hon Thomas Marshall Col Samuel A Merritt and Hon R N Baskin But still the Tribune the American antiMormon paperspoke of tle Democrats who were engaged in the campaign as the tail of the Mormon t kite So far as we are aware not a single Democrat who has made application for office was ever in anyway any-way connected with the Mormon church yet the Tribune this great American r antiMormon paper says of these gentlemen gen-tlemen that about the most anxious set are the poor wretches in Utah who are looking for Democratic manna But ihe Tribune in its independence and in its intense Americanism is not content with characterizing the Democrats of Utah who are applicants for office as poor wretches but says that they remind one of the coyote who nears a sheep corral after a heavy snow storm Such language as this and such compariSons I compari-sons us these are mild and respectful when compared with the manner in which this same Americaiij antiMor mon paper spoke of President Cleveland Cleve-land last summer Then there was nothing too base to accuse him of no crime that he was not equal to Still there is nothing extraordinary in this for ever since the American antiMor mon paper was established when not otherwise engaged it has devoted its time space and energy to abusing Democrats And some who call themselves Democrats Demo-crats have humbly and meekly taken all this abuse and vilification without a murmur mur-mur and merely because the main issue was paramount to all things even decency de-cency manhood and selfrespect There may be questions and issues paramount to these things but we dont believe it We have said it before and we say it again that the Tribune would prefer the rule of the Mormon church in Utah to the rule of the Democratic party And we say further that the Tribune has no need nor sympathy for Americans Democrats or any one else who will not accept as infallible the creed of the Republican Re-publican party and bow before the shrine of its corruption And further still we say that the Tribune has sought to use as slaves the nonMomons the same as the Nctoafi bus Used the Mormon but for its puposes it lacked oven the pretext of a faith With its talismanic cry of Mormonism it has half frightened the non lorll1on out of their senses and has beat them into its own bushel and it should be remembered remem-bered that that bushel is au ultraRepub lican bushel The spell of its power in this direction is partly broken and it is to be hoped that all Democrats will give it so far as political matters are concerned con-cerned the contempt which it so richly deserves It has attempted to fly high into the air as the American eagle while in reality it has been but a Brazilian buzzard It has declared itself independent independ-ent in politics while none have been so partisan It has long and loudly proclaimed pro-claimed that its only solicitude was for the good of the common countr but when men have sought to do anything to better matters here that did not follow on the line of its own petty and peevish policy pol-icy this American antiMormon pap r has done all it could to hinder those men It has posed as a reformer and that I which has been most prominent about it is its own hideous deformity It has shouted freedom until the mountain tops gave back the shout but it would put in i bondage all who shout not in its discordant discord-ant key Its whole history is the history of hypocrisy The result of its work has been to make error more confirmed and i crime increase Such in part is the Tri I bunc this American antiMoimon paper j i pa-per this paper which in the conceit of its selflaudation holds the foremost place among newspapers for a tlipusand miles I in either direction This is the paper that but this very morning says About I the most anxious set are the poor wretches i in Utah who are looking for Democratic manna Their shrieks are growing shrill and loud daily they remind one of a I 2 i coyote who nears a sheep corral after a I I heavy snowstorm The official sheep of j Utah shouldising Te deum forBUch a I shepherd shieldithem < m the devouring I I devour-ing i Demottsi I |
