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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN'8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING C0.f INC. JAMES P. CA8EY Business Manager F. P. GALLAGHER, Editor. 8UB8CRIPTION PRICE: In United 8tates, Canada and Mexico $2.50 per year, the Including postage six months. $1.50 for Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year. 8lngle copies, 10 cents. Payment should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postofflce at 8alt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 3 Salt Lake City, Utah. Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409. 311-12-1- ELECT EMEU Y SHERIFF; END LA WLESSNESS In the state and county we have our paramount issues just as, in the nation, we have the paramount issues of Democratic and the League of Nations. In the state the leading issues are inefficient government, excessive taxation and the use of the public administration for private gain. In the county the issue is one of law enforcement against lawlessness. This is the overshadowing issue which the people of Salt Lake county must meet and they can triumph only by defeating Corless and retain the brazen attempt of the underworld to control of the sheriffs office. We are opposed to Sheriff Corless on his record and the record of the ring which surrounds him. The members of that vicious and conscienceless band have boldly defied the people of the county. Through them the bootleggers, the gamblers, the keepers of vicious rooming houses and of other abominable dives have secured a grip on the sheriffs office which has prevented the enforcement of the laws against vice and crime. The record of the sheriffs ring is a record of infamy. That ring has not only fostered among adults, but it has made drunkards and criminals of young boys and has betrayed young girls into lives of vice. Road houses of unspeakable debauchery have beeu permitted to operate in the rural districts. In these dives bootleg whiskey has mis-gov-emin- re-ele- ct law-abidi- law-breaki- ent ng ng been sold without stint or limit. They have been not merely traps for unwary virtue but they have been scandals and perils in the communities where- - they have been allowed by the sheriff to exist. On the side of law and order in this campaign is C. Frank Emery, Republican candidate for sheriff. Opposed to him are the traf-ficein bootleg whiskey, the vicious and the criminal, the sheriffs deputies and the exploiters of the underworld. The Corless-Boc- k machine which elected Bock mayor is now functioning for Corless. citizens of Salt Lake county there can be For the but one choice. To end the flagrant reign of vice, to annihilate the system of protection for bootleggers and gamblers, the electors of the country must cast their votes for Emery. They must vote for Emery if they would protect their children. They must vote for Emery if they would restore the county to moral health. In the great debate over the League of Nations do not forget the state and county issues. Do not lose sight of the fact that we can have a clean city and a clean county only by ejecting the protectors of the lawless from office. You can rid your communities of these infamies and perils by electing to office the man who represents law and order and the decent people of the county. rs law-abidi- ng CORLESS RING PLANS STEAL IN PRECINCT 113 Arrangements to steal the election in the downtown districts have been made by the sheriffs machine. In Precinct 113, where scores of people who did not belong In the district were voted for Corless at the convention primary, the Democratic judge, who has refused to aid the corrupt methods of the sheriffs ring, is Mrs. M. P. Quay. Because she has insisted on an honest and threatened registration she has been brow-beate- n hy the Corless-Boc- k machine thugs. Even Democratic and candidates have called on her and ordered her to resign. Among her threatening visitors was the Mr. Shields, who is one of the Democratic nominees for the state senate. Berkeley Olson, the county recorder, has made himself conspicuous by joining in an attempt to prevent the election judges named by Mrs. Quay from office-holde- rs being sworn in. As chairman of the precinct Mrs. Quay named as the two Demo- cratic judges Mrs. J. C. Dunn and Joseph Barrow. The Corless ringleaders were afraid that Mrs. Dunn would see to it that there was no crookedness on election day, especially in the count after the closing of the polls. Therefore, they sent an emissary to tell her that she was not to be judge and ordered her to remain away from the polling place on election day. The envoy of the bootleggers and gamblers generously offered to pay her for her time. In each precinct there will be two Democratic and one Republican judge. Unless the Corless ring can control the judge who is named as a Republican it will not be able to consummate its steal in Precinct 113. Apparently, therefore, the plans for a steal are in vain : in reality they are well on the way to fulfillment. The Republican chairman of the precinct resigned and |