Show I WAS IT A FAILURE This mornings Tribune lasses in review re-view an article in Saturdays DEMOCRAT and to some extent the result of the Aug 1 ust election It charges that the Doio CHAT paraded the returns of the late election as certain proof that no mistake was made in not agreeing to a fusion ticket because the vote their ticket received I re-ceived exceeded the Liberal vote of 18SV 1 The showing made by the PKMOCUAT may have been a parade or it may not I but certain it is that tested by 1 the result of the election of 1885 as compared with f that of 1SS the Democrats made no mistake in declining to form a fusion ticket But the Tribune makes this comment com-ment i Everybody who was hero knows that there waR perfect apathy here among Gentiles Gen-tiles iu 1885 because of the utter hopelessness hopeless-ness of the result and because of other things not necessary at this time to be mentioned men-tioned 1 Let us grant all thai this stales and all that it implies still it must be admitted j I t that the Democrats in 18S5 succeeded in arousing more people from their perfect 1 apathy than did the Liberals in 1888 I Then comes this account of the 7V liunc When we look at the sounding manifesto with which the DEMOOBXT opened the campaign J cam-paign and then at the result the failure is I so palpably utterly overwhelming that ones I compassion is enlisted and a generous mall has not tho cruelty to laugh Was there anything more Rounding in that manifesto than the manifestoes 0 1 of tho Liberal party One thing there was not in that IImmifestoa bombastic use of all phrases about love of country devoted band and true Americans These and like phrases have been used so much here by the Republicans that the very sight of them makes one almost sick and one could not avoid the thought that those who were so constantly using them protested a little too much Hut the Tribune says that the failure is I so palpably utterly overwhelming that I ones compassion is enlisted and a generous gener-ous man has not the cruelty even to laugh If such is the case surely the failure of the Democrats to carry the election is not so great nor so utterly overwhelming a failure as was the attempt at-tempt of the Liberals in 188 Is everything every-thing a failure in elections that does not carry all before it On the hypothesis hy-pothesis that anything less than absolute victory at the polls is an utterly overwhelming failure then it is just as certain that t the same failure would have occurred had there been a fusion ticket in the fiold and the Republican Re-publican party should pass a vote of censure cen-sure condemning the action of the Republican I Re-publican Central Committee for proposing r i propos-ing Kuch a thing as a fusion ticket which 4 was wire to meet with failure I The Tribune makes a number of extracts t ex-tracts from the DEMOCRAT of July lath 1 not one of which we should modify in any particular had we to write them over again and says that in effect we said that all Liberal platforms have heretofore in effect been Republican platforms So we did and so we say today It draw some conclusions which are entirely unwarranted which wo shall not undertake to refute except om Here it is Again it they did not menu to say that all Liberal tickets had been composed of carpetbaggers there was nothing in their words Just before this the Tribune had quoted from our issue of July 10th following Ono thing it cannot be charged that the ticket is composed of carpetbaggers > It is on this remark that they base their statement above quoted Now is there j I any warrant whatever in our statement for the inference that the Tribune draws J The DEMOCRATS article from which the 1 extract is made is a complete refutation of anj such inference but as we cannot I reproduce the article in full wo will give I the reason for that statement As everyone f every-one here knows whenever any ticket has II been placed in the field in opposition to 1 I the Peoples party it has been the custom I of the papers of that party and all its members to say that those opposed to them were carpetbaggers Now we J made the above quoted statement about j carpelbaggers with this condition of i things I in mind and made it because quite a number of the candidates on the Democratic ticket were born in Utah while the other candidates had been here many years and this being the case in I I the very nature of things it was an impossibility im-possibility to charge the Democratic I candidates with I being carpetbaggers 1 This is all there was in our remark and I we arc unable to see how any person i could construe them as the t Tribune has Somewhat further oji the Tribune says They went forth to capture the Mormon vote and were utterly beaten in their attempt I at-tempt To do so they deemed it necessary I Ii 1 to openly insult tho men who have made t their existence here outside the Mormon W I church possible I Certainly such statements are at least broad and arrogate to those who make them all the importance to which they are entitled Ai the Tribune says the j Republicans were insulted then the Republicans Re-publicans alone Ure the men who made I I their existence i e those who were engaged en-gaged in the late election here outside I the Mormon church possible Surely this will be news to some who were here even before the Tribune was established I But is not this claim much the same as J that of the Peoples part that that party v made it possible for the Gentiles to live in Utah and hence the Peoples party should be allowed full sway without let I or hindrance Still fuither on the Tribune II I I Tri-bune has this j Their organization was composed of men j I who had stood aloof for yean and sneered at every effort to have the laws vindicated i I I it i t ± iI i I i II were I i here or who up to a few months ago I known as Mormons The < That statement is simply untrue Tribune should be able to distinguish j between the vindication of the lawand apolitical a-political party or it is possible that the I Tribune thinks that the party to which it belongs is the only one that has a right to be and in its intense patriotism that I I to oppose that party is to sneer at even effort to have the laws vindicated Such a conceit may be laudable and consoling but still it is a conceit In conclusion we would say that the men who were engaged in the Democratic campaign I I are as anxious and honest in I I their wish that the law may be vindicated as the Tribune and they likewise like-wise believe that a man may be an I American and loyal to his country without with-out forever parading his nationality and loyalty and that to be so it s not absolutely ab-solutely necessary to be just as the 7V bUll says he jnnst be to be a loyal American |