Show AN N APPEAL TO PREJUDICE Senator Smoots personal organ yes yesterday yesterday published an appeal directed to the th Mormon people urging them in im impassioned Jas terms to vote the cm m fl ticket this fall The appeal aDDeal was based not on an political grounds not be because benu cause nu e the election involves the tariff or r the presidents policies or any poUt 1 al issue but on the ground that the tho American party Darty will win If the Re Republicans publicans do not and that American success moans means untold terrors for tar the Mormons The frankness of ol this editorial utter utterance alice ance is commendable It shows that tho the Smoot Republicans hope to win by playing upon the fears the religious sentiment f of the people If any anyone one utterance could sway sensible Mor Mormons Mormons mons from tom their hont convictions sUh fluh Burn a plea plen might because It is ad addressed L dressed Hed to the religious feelings of men L and women who cherish their religion L deeply who would sacrifice much toi It If it were necessary Fortunately Ute the day dlLY has passed In Jr int I t when such a subterfuge car can un I hope to lo carry carr any an weight To begin begir I with the thu figures are against the ue oe 11 e that the Republicans alone ear can Jm I hope to defeat the American party varty Lynchs campaign last fall backed as zu asit it H was by b Senator So ator Smoot and th tim C l 1 cral ral officeholders in Salt Lake dem demonstrated beyond Question the utter r demoralization of the Republican party arty ait r rr in this city Lynch got barely burely hal half r as R many Republican votes as Mr lIr How HowIt cit It got the year ear before while the Dem grained gained pIn d nearly a n thousand and the th Americans got enough Republican 1 votes otes to win A vote yote for lor the Republican can an ticket is half a It vote for the tho Amor lians ilan The fight this fall lbs lias between the thi Americans and hU D with the tile Republicans hopelessly out of it in salt Bait Lake City and county There is no in 10 other oth probability In sight and the tho Republicans who know anything know they th are bound to lose Jose Their one hope hopen n ti last desperate chance lay in the ap apal al they have made an appeal utter utterly utterly ly h Inexcusable utterly deserving of condemnation because it ranks with the th whispering methods that have vo characterized the Smoot organization and which have driven the tho Republican party flarty to destruction Waiving the political immorality of such suh abhorrent methods what are the fa ts confronting the voter ot r On one Fide the Smoot wing of the Republican party controlled by a machine that is discredited at home and abroad is re ro responsible for much of ot the political chaos that Juts has befallen Utah that has alienated the tho best men of its own par por party ty iv and entangled the tho state In fn a muddle that tha t has ha inflicted countless injury to nil its Ita bet best interests On the other sl lp Is the U American party likewise basing bing its hope of or success on religious prejudice on the hatred of or men for fort their t neighbors and former associates in politics defaming the state and de do determined to rule or ruin Against these those two destructive forces TV will ill be arrayed the Democratic party part basing ba its campaign on Its ability to furnish rood good government with a ticket that will m represent no faction no in individual ambitions ambitious no hatred or malice or 01 other evil thing That ticket will willbe be le lp named in a n convention controlled by byno byno no nu clique representing only the peo people people pie and Mormons alike who want ant peace with l onor who hope to inaugurate a tL L now new political day in which both the tho Smoot faction and the American faction will have hao no part The voters of Utah and particularly or of II this city and county will havo have their hoI n of these thase throe j tickets We Vo do lo donot not net believe that either the Smoot or 01 organs gans Jan appeal to the Mormons or the t e eAm 4 American Am appeal to Mormon haters will win The rho people the com corn common non mon everyday American citizens of or orthis this community are tired of the fight brought on by fry these motions factions ru they tt e want relief from wrangling and ana recriminations and abuse c that follow foH w 1 In the Yf l They Tho tl see oe but b ut one way to settle the whole busi business ness n ess and they will wilt settle it by voting the t he Democratic |