Show A CHICAGO PAPER ON THE CAMPAIGN A 1511 SONG writer in the chicago herald goes after the conspirators who are seeking to wrest by trickery and deception the government of this city out of the hands of the majority he wields a vigorous us pen as will be seen by this extract in reference to boomers and iffla zionists during the last few months the army of real estate boomers who all but succeeded in wrecking the prosperity of wichita Wi ohita leadville and other western cities in which they started silly and ruinous booms have invaded salt lake the result is an unwarranted and preposterous advance in the prices of real estate without the aid of fictitious influences salt lake lias has been enjoying a wonderful degree of prosperity and those of its citizens who have the f future welfare of the city at heart strongly object to having zions integrity undermined by a lot of rascally shar pers but since the boomers struck the town property that a year ago wa was sold lor for what was considered vory fair prices has doubled and trebled in value while farming and pasture lands lying to the south and west have been staked off into town lots iota and put upon the market at auces puces that make the sanity of the boomers questionable many of the real estate sharks have but little ready cash to invest but what they lack in capital they make up in m monumental onu mental western gall most of 7 th the e property they have obtained control of was secured by what is known as the option plan b by which T the borome selects selecta a tract of land and for hla his subdivision and at once opens up negotiations with the men who for nearly half a century have raised crops upon it fairy tales of great prospective wealth accompanied oy by a small cash deposit turns the farmers heads and they sign a contract with the boomer agreeing to sell their acres for a specified price within a specified time after describing the mu tactics of the land gamblers and the character of this country when first settled by the mormon people in 1847 he be turns his attention to a late phase of the political conspiracy V involving the exclusion of members of the church from naturalization his statements in this line ilde are so pointed that we introduce them here the wily boomer who is a good deal of a genius in his way has de a scheme for disposing of his options at enormous profits and if tiona ibis X scheme heme can be successfully worked he expects to revel in riches although the wi y boomer is mentioned in the singular person it must be understood that there are hundreds of him here and that all these hundreds are banded together for the purpose r p 0 s e of attaining a single object rue fleeming fleecing flee cing i n g victims he has already attempted to market his town lots in the eastern cities but meeting with an unexpected setback he is now trying other tactics the real estate sharks found that as in the case ol of wichita and leadville there was no difficulty in hoodwinking eastern people with money to invest but they also found that prejudices against the mor mons were so deeply rooted that so long as the mormons cormons hold held control of the salt lake government their subdivisions were not likely to find purchasers in this connection it 18 is singular how bow much credence has been tv given n i in n the east to the silly sensations n st that hat have been recently sprung by these same boomers in regard to the mormons cormons Mor mons the lurid blood curdling tales that were related in judge andersons court juring the recent naturalization contests were evidently accepted by the outside world as actual facts salt lake people knew that much of the te testimony stimon was false knowing the irresponsible character of many of the witnesses they simply laughed at the absurd stories of cruelty treason and murder and the silly alleged disclosures of the secrets of the endowment house these witnesses or at least the more sensational of them are positively believed to have accepted bribes from the boomers or carpetbag carpet bag element the object being to still f urther further slander the mormon church and furnish the courts with a pretext for refusing naturalization papers to many who were honestly entitled to become citizens of the united states it was but another way of persecuting the mormons cormons Mor mons eminent constitutional lawyers who have since gone over all of if the evi dence and read the rulings and opinion of the court say most emphatic ally that in deciding that an alien cannot become a citizen simply because he is a member of the mormon church judge anderson COMMit committed Eed a grave error and aird one that the constitution and laws of the united states will not justify the steps taken to prevent the naturalization of mormon aliens were the beginning of the political conspiracy that is now being so carefully worked out this conspiracy has for its object the crushing out of mormon power in the city government and the placing of the offices and the funds of the olty in the control of the boomers in treating upon the political situation bation in this city this pungent writer exposes the unfairness of the cd rall anti mormon tactics and places this exact estimate upon those who formulate and operate them their campaign is being managed by men who are as shrewd an i tricky as they are unscrupulous and who will not hesitate at any sort of political rascality when necessity requires the selection in every instance of or liberal registration officers by the utah commission is denounced as without au an element of justice showing the warped and prejudiced condition of the utah commission Commie whose duty is to administer the law with fairness and equity two of those officers are specially named as having expressed publicly and otherwise their antipathy to the majority of the people here thus exhibiting the fact that any attempt on their part to administer the election laws according to the spirit of jua justice ice would involve a scrugg struggle le in their own breasts the herald writer draws this vivid picture of f facts with but two exceptions the registrars were well chosen for the work in han ban dand more autra outrageous bous misconduct in office has haa never teen been perpetrated in accordance with the instructions from the commission the registrars beginning nov 4 were required to visit each dwelling house and place of abode in the city wid and ascertain the names of every voter whose name is not already on the registration li stand also erase from the list the names of those who are deceased and those who have moved away from the precinct in which they are registered in performing this work the registrars intentionally avoided visiting the house of many mormon voters and they have since placed every possible obstruction in the way or of mormon seeking registration the rank injustice of the registration frauds caused the mormons cormons to appeal to the commission for relief but after hearing the evidence the commission simply declined to act saying in in a lengthy decision that the registrars must obey the law and if they wrongfully deprived a qualified voter from the privilege of voting by refusing to register him they did so at their peril the proceedings from beginning to end were farcical for the commission well understood that no matter how many persons are wronged by h having av n g their names erased from the regi registration t rat ion list they cannot recover dm damages ge december 23 when the registration office opened the obstruction policy already begun toward mormon voters was made more prominent than ever for the place of registration was an old disused foundry and no one but the registrars was permitted inside persons seeking registration were forced to stand in I 1 line in and make application and answer interrogatories through a small window each dy day during registration week the rain fell in drizzling mists and the mud in front of the place of of registration was several inches deep the misery of the voters was heaped upon them by the tantalizing conduct of the registrars who asked each applicant so many unnecessary and nonsensical questions that many were kept a f full all half hour at the window this was for the purpose of delaying the work and by retarding the progress either tire out the waiting multitudes multi tuder prevent all from being registered within the allotted time that the mormons cormons were the only ones ano really had any occasion for going to the place of registration was apparent at the very outset for an all of the gentiles or carpet had previously been registered without being put pu to the inconvenience of standing out in the wet and cold A conspicuous liberal trick is thus thug spoken off mormons cormons Mor mons of high standing officials of the city have received notices that they would be required to appear before the registration board and again take oath that they are not practicing polygamy or their names na mes would be astric stricken on T from rom the list those who received notices never were polygamists and all have previously previously subscribed to the oath pr provided v ded by the edmunds bill this is 18 an appropriate ending to this well written article in our chicago contemporary GAI although though it is six weeks from election day excitement already runs high marching clubs in gay uniforms several thousand strong and headed by bands and drum corps parade arade the city nightly meetings are held E eld in every ward and both parties gi give ve balls and other entertain me so several veral times a week I 1 lit it is ia the oddest aswell as well as the bitterest political cam laign that has ever been known in the west jm |