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Show MACKAY DRAWS COLOR LIWlSiRPISS A Little Tale That Shows Truly That "It's Different After , Election.5' After election It's different. Things that were before election are prone not to be the same things at all after election. elec-tion. Promises and pledges eagerly given and made before election nro quite often with the same eagerness repudiated after tho votes have been cast and counted. So it happened to the colored people of Salt Luke more particularly to those of the race who fell over themselves In their zcul for he church-Republican ticket. tick-et. A certain section of tho negro folks of. this town were "promised an unlimited number of good things If thoy would only support tho church-Republican ticket. Among these good things was the promise prom-ise made by Airs. Margaret Zane Wltchcr, county clerk, that she would employ In her office a colored person in the event of her re-election. Well, Mrs. Wltchcr wus re-elected, and, true to her promise, she did employ a colored person This colored person wus Mrs. W. W. White, the wife of the Janitor Jani-tor at the Salt Lake route offices. Mrs. White is a graduate of the Suit Lake high school and In ever" way mialltlcd to fill a job in Mrs. Witcher's office, It Js asserted by her friends. Worked Two Hours. Mr. White was set at work as n conv-Ist. conv-Ist. She worked two hours and then was dismissed by Mrs. Wltcher, who told Mrs. White that the board of county commissioners com-missioners had refufied to confirm her appointment. ap-pointment. Mrs. Wltcher. out of her own purse, paid Mrs. White for tho two hours' work. It seems that when Mrs. Wltcher asked the board of county commissioners com-missioners to confirm Mrs. White, Chairman Chair-man Mackay, who is the general manuger of the county and of the county commissioners, commis-sioners, stated emphatically that he woul not permit Mrs. Whlto'-s conflr. atlon on the sole ground of her color. That, ended it so far as Mm. White's jobOwas concerned, but It did tt end It I so far as Mrs. White's friends were concerned. con-cerned. It was to them that these promises prom-ises and pledges had been made before election and thoy determined o see about it. Mackay Drow Color Line. Thus determined, a committer of the Young Men's Republican club called upon the board of county commissioners Monday. Mon-day. They were met by Mr. Mackuy. They staled their cause and r-ked the reason why. Mr. Muckay's bristles bristled bris-tled more vigorously than e -?r, and In terms not to be misunderstood tho czar of Salt Lako county Informed his visitors visit-ors that the reason why Mrs. White was not confirmed was because she was colored; col-ored; and, furthermore. Mr. Mackay Informed In-formed tho committee that tho same' fate awaited any other person o: .the race who might aspiro to serve the public in an official capacity. Surely, a truth It Is that it's different after election. |