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Show SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, OCTOBER Special Edition. 26, 1904. Number it has not stirred up strife, but on the All these statements are true, and contrary has stood firm for the best in- every one is aware of the fact. What terests of Utah. Its national policies an excellent showing it is, and how lithave produced security and prosperity tle reason there is for anything else ates, it snaps and snarls at the people at home and abroad. It has won the than commendation of the administraof Utah, driving away capital, attempt- confidence of the people and merits tion of thecountys affairs by the present commissioners! ing to create conditions of unrest, and the victory it will win. to array class against class, with all The Tribune either lied then or it is & & the energy that the purchasing power The Tribune is getting desperate. It lying now. The latter is the fact. of money can create. & sees its case is hopeless, and thinks it But the scales have dropped. At The poor fund is not under the manevery office, store, dwelling and street might do something, however vile and corner the good people of Utah stand reckless, to defeat the Republican agement of Chairman Anderson. Mr. pointing the finger of political scorn at ticket. It started out on Sunday morn- Standish, the Gentile member of the the hired sheet and its managers. ing with a base attack on the board of board, has that in his charge and reSlowly but surely the leaven of de- county commissioners in lief is extended to more Gentiles than general and cency is working, and upon election Mormons. In the infirmary there are day, left high and dry upon the rocks Chairman Anderson in particular. This of political disaster, will be seen the it followed up with a similar attack on eighty Gentiles and only twenty-fou- r Tribune, its managers and the deluded Sheriff Emery and the manner in Mormons, and most of the latter are adherents of the American party. which he conducts his office. Then it not in good standing with their & gave its attention similarly to County church. The end of the campaign for this Treasurer Carbis and As to the county patronage, CO per County Auditor cent of it a sumgoes to Gentile firms. year is near, and fairly accurate Fisher and will no doubt extend its As to abatement taxes, there is mary of what the verdict will be can attentions to all the county officers no distinction made ofbetween Gentiles be made. As it looks now, the whole with the and Mormons. The Tribune blames of the county clerk, exception will state be Mr. ticket elected Anderson as a member of the Republican who is the slave of the Tribune and board of for the county a with a equalization Republican the K. K. party. by large majority, discrimination in tax alleged legislature. In this county every man The burden of the Tribunes charges falsely abatements, while as a matter of fact on the Republican ticket will be electMr.- Anderson sat on the board only the for all of board county against ed are practically elected now. All whose alleged the half of the last day of its session, misdoings the sheet Mr. Anderson being in Chicago attendthat is necessary is to deposit the holds Mr. Anderson responsible, are the Republican convention all the ballots, count them up and proceed to that the county is run extravagantly ing time the board was in session, with do the shouting. This has come about in the interest of the Mormons, that the exception of the last half of the the poor fund is recklessly used for because the second sober judgment of the benefit of indigent Mormons, that last day. S the people has been made up adverse the county infirmary is filled with Moron Sheriff The Tribunes article mon inmates who are expensively to the Democratic party and to the and fed and that nearly every- Emery is a tissue of falsehoods from and uncalled for American clothedthe county purchases for any thing to end. The receipts of the party, which from all appearances will purpose is purchased from Mormon beginning office from fees last year were largely go down on election day to a dishon- business firms, and that the taxes of ored political grave unwept, unhon- Mormons were reduced, while those in excess of the previous year and the fees (all fixed by. statute) are all colof Gentiles were kept up. ored and unsung. not of an iota a not is There will word, lected and all turned into the treasury With the close of election day set the political sun of Thomas Kearns truth in all that. every month. The expenses of last for which the people of Utah may sing The facts are that the affairs of the so economically year were slightly higher than the songs of loudest praise. With his de- county were never conducted as they year before, from the fact that four scent into political oblivion, notice will and never so well four years, courts were have been served upon other senatorial have been for the past been sitting instead of three, chairhas Anderson Mr. to since but money with nothing upstarts, few and additional peace officers were recommend them that the day for such man of the county board. Only ainadneeded at Bingham Junction because men to represent Utah has forever short months ago the Tribune we suppose, told the truth of the opening of the new smelters gone. And with Mr. Kearns into mer- vertently, when it editorially said as and the consequent springing up of a ited oblivion will journey others here, about that new town there with fourteen saloons, who, forgetting political honor, have follows: vigiSince the Republicans came into which necessitate considerable followed him into paths where decency to law and maintain and lance order this they have paid up ends, men whom the people have fre- power, however,bequeathed annualcollects which sheriff r from the by the $185,000 (debt quently honored with high and digniDemocratic county board), and ly $8,G50 for license, which is turned fied positions. Their attitude in this cur- into the county treasury and for which fully met other warrants, placing campaign, their assistance to an un- rent Tribune gives Mr. Emery no credit expenses on a cash basis. The the the abusive against campaign and The citizens of Bingham whatever. just have done fifty per cent honor of the people of Utah will never Republicans work on the roads each year than Junction are entitled to adequate probe forgotten, to them poetic political moreDemocrats did at their best. The tection, and it is the duty of the sheriff the The come. Repubwill surely justice has been improved to give it to them notwithstanding lican party to whom this triumph will county e infirmary cent j a new county that the Tribune does not approve it, come will have resting upon it a great- twenty-fiv- beenperbuilt at Bingham; 0 but would turn the town over to be has er responsibility than in the past. Once jail has in three years in run by thugs and thieves. Alta is a been spent trusta with by power more entrusted than growing town and so is that portion of a strict sprinkling the roads, and more to held be will it on people the Bingham outs.'de the limits of the town ing $50,000 was spent last year efficient Honest and accountability. Electric lighting is being con- of Bingham. The people there need roads. done be that and nothing government is an addi- and are entitled to protection, and the stantly extended; there the to perpetuate class hatred will be de- tional business sheriff would be remis in his duty if district judge, and did not afford it them. There are manded. all the offices has increased fifty he of be should That the Republican party cent in the ten years, and this also seven saloons in other parts of victorious in the state is just. It has per the county than Bingham Junction is better done. business state, the of interest not attacked the Tribune and K. Ks. Desperate to try and what the Salt Lake Tribune It is a hard proposition determine One week it accuses Senator Smoot of doing his best to secure the election of a legislature favorable to Geo. Sutherland for senator. The next in a screed a column long it accuses the Mormon peosecret ple of having arranged a quiet sacrdeal by which Sutherland is to be ificed and W. S. McCornick made senator. One day an article of vile abuse to will accuse Mormons of flocking Howell's support, irrespective of party is driving at these days. n after in a article it boldly asserts that Roberts has been set aside by affiliation, a few days B. H. two-colum- priesthood to quietly notify Mormon voters to scratch Howell and vote for Powers. In the meantime, there 'la 'between the different days column after column of senseless, abusive and scurrilous attack upon the the Mormon Mormon people, written with all venom a man can feel who has sold himself to an pal- unworthy cause for the try dollars. In fact, to read the Tribune these days brings forcibly to mind that at it3 head, and enjoying its favor, are the political junta who dominated and wrought the ruin of the old Liberal Party hy through methods. stealt- unscrupulous It is the same crowd that are today the head, front Id dictators of the American party, . and the articles published day after day only give notice to all thinking people what condition of affairs would obtain were they successful control106 JR80 peop e and the mre krought under their remarks are made that these publishing their daily diatribes ile abuse against the Mormon peo- - now people have long mories, and the sloughing off of vot-i.Voter from American ay stroll aro daly reduction in its s ?ecause troM Peoples memories and they see looming ahead of them in the new party 4116 wreckers of n?ikacl Tribunoibl The day of toe its support rally the tPnabllity Btate itPi has iif Passed. rthe When do that stood as forth an able effort fornfWSi?aper makinS an honest cause- is today discref hTst disowned, without a friend Purchased friend and the fen,!? stands a sheet fnrv purchased to a seC0efauSe of a man who failed seat, marinln i13?? 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