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Show I American Partu on the rocks jft The "American" party is going K to prices, and dcsintegration already EJ has begun by the action of erstwhile m strong financial pillars of that organi- aB zation. Prominent leaders in the B party have announced to their friends IK and acquaintances that they have had Hj more than enough of the Tribune and H its so-called reform. The Tribune's V attacks on President Roosevelt and 'BJ the Republican party, along with its iH defense of every bad record made in IK the present Salt Lake City adminis- 9j tration, seems to be the particular oc- jB casion of these men opening their K eyes, and the consequent running on j Wt' to the rocks of the "American" party. '' S s stated tne mcn w'10 are niaking ! Ik these announcements have been strong ML financial pillars in the "American" Hj party, in fact the chief persons to fur- Sj nish its money sinews. These men JMt have stated uncquivocatingly and K emphatically that they are ready to AT join in and help the Republican party H elect any good man to be mayor of K Salt Lake City. They mean business, HX and will be working against the B "American" party at the municipal Hj election this fall. He The reasons these men give for HC their action are potent and convinc- ' HE ing. It is not alone the present shaky HC condition of the Tribune that leads HS them to such a course. They want a He square deal in this city, and they H know the Tribune has been deceiving H them, both as to its' sincerity and its Hie weight of influence. H Truth will give to its readers some i B 'lc rcasons these men present for IK their new departure, that their cf- m fectiveness and quality may be un- 1K dcrstood by the public. 1 Vm When these strong financial men j IK joined the "American" party, the B Tribune, held out, and made many Mj people believe, that President Roose-. H velt and the National Republican M leaders were with Tom Kearns, and Ut that he, along with Julius Caesar HS Burrows, would control the Federal Hj patronage of Utah. Everybody H knows now that Tom and the Tribune ( HS failed to make good. H Here are some illustrations: First H( came Broncho-Buster Ben Haywood, Ha whose reappointment never material- HW i HHHHHHHKHHHHHHHflHai ized. Then Joe Lippmann slipped overboard after being pushed. The Tribune and Tom couldn't even beat Bill Glasmann for the Ogdcn post-mastership. post-mastership. They made a fight on Arthur L. Thomas, and it fizzled out They made charges against Federal officials, and investigation showed these accusations to be so basely false and malicious, that the officials at Washington practically told the Tribune Trib-une crowd that their word would not stand against the snap of a hungry dog. The worst jolt the Tribune received re-ceived from Washington, however, was when its fossilifcrous managing (editor, Nelson, was bounced from Uncle Sam's service for his all-around unworthiness. The Tribune has been blackguarding President Roos'evclt ever since that event. Nelson held the position of statistican in Utah for the Agricultural Department for many long years, and felt secure. It did not take much effort to pry him loose. The leading men to whom we refer as abandoning the "American" party for the good of the public and themselves, them-selves, listened to the Tribune's boasts that it would prevent the appointment ap-pointment and confirmation of Booth Knighn, Spry, Thompson and others and they witnessed its miserable failure. fail-ure. They read how, when U. S. District Dis-trict Attorney Booth courteously and metaphorically kicked F. Coyote Se-frit, Se-frit, manager of the Tribune, out of his office, the Tribune boasted how it would "fix Kinky Booth." The aforesaid Coyote Sefrit made the wires hot and used his limit on postage post-age stamps to have the U. S. district attorney removed. All the comfort and consolation the Tribune got out of the affair was a reply that the Tribune's statements were against the official facts; or, stating it plainly, plain-ly, with perhaps more force than politeness, that the Tribune was a liar. Being defeated at every turn, com-pletely com-pletely falling down in every feature of the Smoot case, and failing utterly to deliver one promise on federal patronage, the Tribune adopted other tactics, and is now trying to read President Roosevelt and all Republicans Republi-cans who fail to eat crow with Tom Kearns and Bill Nelson, out of the party. The reputable former financial finan-cial pillars of the "American" party will not stand for that sort of thing. Then there is the Tribune's denial of such an event as the robbery of the McWhirtcrs. Even after everybody every-body in town knows it, the Tribune refuses to admit what it knew on the night after the robbery, viz., that the TcWihirtcrs had been buncoed by a gang of thieves, and the culminating feature of the whole business oc-cured oc-cured in the presence and office of the chief of police. The conviction of Jim Donaldson even failed to bring the Tribune to recognize the facts. Those substantial citizens who have come out against the "American" "Ameri-can" party cannot approve of that sort of thing. And so these men will not go further furth-er with the "American" party, except in aiding to break into pieces the organization or-ganization they were effective, through being deceived by Tom Kearns and the Tribune, in bringing into power. Thus the "American" party is going go-ing to pieces by its strong and reputable reput-able men leaving it. They will not longer submit to its deceptive leadership, leader-ship, or remain in the stench of the crimes that leadership has defended and sought to rover un. |