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Show THE CITIZEN " and finds that the police anti-vic- e The gamblers and bootleggers want to know whether they will be protected if Corless is elected. In the mining and smelting towns the sheriffs ring is still regarded as a reliable protection, but in the city many of the gamblers and bootleggers say that they have bet on the wrong horse. Naturally this is disturbing to the sheriffs ring in several ways. Loans to the Corless campaign fund are becoming fewer and the sums smaller. Even the fake mining stocks sold by the ring as a means of collecting easy money are not being disposed of as rapidly as had been hoped and planned. The sheriffs ring has been seeking desperately for some means in his attempt to be squad is destructively active. re-elect- ed to reassure its following in the underworld. They say that after election everything will settle down to normal and that the present anti-vic- e activity of the police is merely a flurry. The Citizen is quite aware that the public generally is not espe cially interested in the feuds that beset the underworld and wecife the circumstances simply to keep our readers informed of the kind of campaign that is being conducted . for Corless. Evidently the sheriffs ring believes that it can elect its man simply by controlling the votes of the vicious. The Citizen, on the other hand, believes that the voters of Salt Lake county are resolved upon the election of -- clean candidates. The re-electi- of Corless, which would mean on Com-olain- ts I u triumph of the sheriffs underworld partners, would be a disgrace i y' ted evi urd ling' not to the state. ime le s ie b f mi e ad du in when Manager Relf inquired what he intended to do, Mr. Thomas said that he had no men available to handle the case, but would take it up in three or four days. Several more weeks passed, but the federal prohibition director remained inactive. When there seemed to be no hope of getting federal aid to break up the bootlegging gang Mr. Relf discharged seven bellboys at one time. This ended the bootlegging so far as the hotel was concerned, but the band of lawbreakers continued to operate without the slightest interference from the federal prohibition director. From that time to this Mr. Relf has heard no word from Mathonihah Thomas on the subject. Meantime Mr. Thomas was busy arranging the political pawns to secure the nomination for congress at the Democratic convention. As soon as he had achieved his object the nomination for congress he resigned as prohibition director. He and Corless are working together. They have combined their forces to the neglect of the rest of the Democratic ticket. They hope that no matter what happens to their associates on the ticket they will be able to insure their election by adding to the party vote those elements of the underworld that befriended them in the preliminaries to the nd clivc I oub ;por I rape uke P11 I heir rant idig: aves sign ndg ent inua c hnei irst- - DEMOCRA TIC MASK TORN FROM HORRORS IN HAITI When a private citizen conceals and protects a murderer he shares in the crime and can be punished as accessory after the fact. When a secretary of the navy conceals and protects murderers he wants the public to sympathize with him. Some weeks ago Senator Harding denounced the despotic rule of an American army of occupation in Haiti. At once the barkers of the administration began to yelp at his heels. It was an insult to the flag to condemn the administrations rule in Haiti. Like all acts of the administration it was something sacred not to be defiled by profane hands. And so the administration once more wrapped itself in the American flag and asked not to be kicked. r The pious echoes had hardly died away when someone was heard to remark that General Barnett, months ago, had accused the marines of atrocities in Havti and had caused an investigation to be made. Once more the administration adopted its policy of suppressing the truth. Barnett was a falsifier. No report of general indiscriminate killing, as charged by General Barnett, ever had been made. It was unpatriotic to say that American marines would be guilty of murder. In fact, all the customary devices of a putrid patriotism were employed to conceal what had been going on in conquered Haiti during the last few years. But the spotlight of publicity .began to burn through the shams and Secretary Daniels to squirm on his throne of smugness. He saw nt the HOW THOMAS IGNORED CASE AGAINST BOOTLEGGERS When Mathonihah Thomas was federal prohibition director, he was so assiduous in his labors for himself that bootlegging ran riot. Even when evidence of bootlegging was submitted to him he went on building his political fences and paid little attention to the duties of his office. Bootleggers enjoyed an immunity which enabled them to leap quickly into the ranks of rich profiteers. A definite case of bootlegging was placed before him by one of Salt Lakes biggest institutions and all the evidence was supplied, but he ignored the case and when taxed with his neglect made specious excuses. George Relf, manager of the Hotel Utah, discovered that his bellboys were working in connection with a bootlegging band. were made to him by some of the guests and he immediately employed private detectives to obtain evidence against the bellboys and their bootlegging partners. Several hundred dollars were expended by the hotel company in the investigation and a mass of evidence was secured. It was then that Mr. Relf submitted the case to the federal prohibition director, together with all the evidence. Meantime he kept the bellboys at the hotel, awaiting action by Mr. Thomas. Some weeks passed, but the prohibition director took no action. Once, ajti that he must invent new hypocrisies, that he must pills of poisonous falsehood. And he began to tell half-trut- sugar-co- cad hnei tile hem new at learc o be and to let in just enough light on the Haiti horrors to break the facts gently to the American people. There has not been general indiscriminate killing, but there have been unlawful executions and murders in the northern part of the island. But the real enormity of his own offense he could not wholly conceal. He admitted that General Barnett had discussed the matter with him many months ago and that an investigation had been ordered. But no report had been made. He was surprised to learn that a report had been made as long ago as March 13, 1920. It had never arrived at the department. That is his canting version of the affair. Let us sec what it means. He knew many months ago that General Barnett had charged general indiscriminate killing and had ordered an investigation, but he had held his own honor and his countrys lonot and good name in such light esteem that he had not even inquired the results of the investigation. Is that mere Democratic incfficienc?' or is it the malice of the guilty partisan who will resort to the .ise?t methods to save his own skin? Does it not mean that Daniels connived at murder and massacre by his concealment? Does it ll0 hs Re s v tl ire t Fven nstil we s mari whet p fe whic he flait King 1 rv menl ie |