Show FIRST AID TO AMERICANS Having Hawing no other excuse for tor asking the support of the voters In the city efe tio r thi th ns have fallen back on their plea p ea of two years ago that the only way to beat b at the Ameri Amen Americans Americans cans is by voting the Republican ticket When that plea was sprung In Inthe inthe the th last city election it just enough wavering voters to beat the Democrats and elect the Americans A V with what disastrous result every tax taxpayer taxpayer I payer can tell by looking lo at his lis assess assessment assessment I ment meat notice this year ear earIt It will be remembered that Lynch n candidate of 1905 1005 car carI 3 I Just one election district In the thelt lt He was well known he had been in i political life he knew the same game game and he lie had tIe the same men behind b hind him who named Dr Plummer as their candidate this time If anything the conditions then were wera more favorable for tor the Re Republicans Republicans Republicans publicans than they are now and Lynch barely had enough votes to ap appear appear appear pear among the The only chance the Republicans l have havo of ot making any sort of showing In Inthe Inthe Inthe the race this year Is by deluding voters as they did two years ago Into the belief bellet that Plummer has a chance to win It is so slim sUm a chance that few L very few of ot the Republicans them themselves themselves selves take it seriously and their man managers managers managers agers look upon fusion with the Dem Democrats on councilmen as their only I chance chanco to save something from the I wreck of their party p In Salt Lake Naturally under such conditions the t Republican managers are incensed at atthe atthe atthe the refusal of the Democrats to fuse with them They abuse the men who oppose fusion as if they had some right to dictate to Democrats the course their party should take takes These Republican Republican lican whose chief aim In InV V life has been to demoralize the Democracy Democracy Democracy racy In order that the Americans might win talk as if u they ought to be consulted and deferred to In matters that concern the Democratic party Not u content wan splitting their own party In twain and keeping up a factional fight that has injured the city and state immeasurably they act as though they expected to run the Democracy of Salt Lake also ir Why should Democrats pay any at attention attention attention to the grievances or advice of Fussy Jimmy TImmy and Callister and Spry and their syndicate of federal officeholders What business have they In Democratic councils and why should I they the complain because the Democracy I ignores their pitiful plea for help in inthe Inthe inthe the city election it Spry who said he be would go out and get two ho Democrats D for every Republican he lost Y by the defection d of Americans It Smoot Sm oot and his federal officeholders who V deluded the voters two years ago and made certain the election elec of ot Thompson at the eleventh hour when Morris would have hae won but buttor for tor their bunco game They talk fusion then nor did they profess any great preference for forthe forthe forthe the Democrats as against the Ameri Amen Americans Americans cans On the contrary they th y and they alone were vere responsible for Thompsons ns fluke victory and they should not be beV V permitted to forget it it 4 Maliciously and wd V deliberately the Re Ret Reg g t II I publicans declare that the Democrats and arid The Herald are in league le with the American party They know better but It suits their purpose to be dishon dishonest est about it t They would much prefer to see the th Americans Ameni merl l ns s win rather rath r rth than th n have Moths Morris elected because tile the election of Morris would deprive them of their chief chic political asset the ap appeal appe peal pe l to t religious prejudice Without the American party as s an excuse there could be no gumshoe gU n call for tor religious s Influence In Ig political pout cal affairs no no plea for the alignment g ment of voters on religious lines and the mainstay of the Smoot machine would go by the board b ard at the first election the Republicans hosen chosen V for their chairman one James Devine who declared himself an American two years ago Devine make written application application application tion to Mayor Thompson after he was elected In which Devines support of the Americans was cited as reason for making him chief of the lire fire de department department department Does anybody suppose Devine would hesitate a minute if he had to choose between American and Democratic victory And It natural to suppose that his first and nd chief object in the cam campaign campaign is to insure the success of the Americans whom he supported two years ago If he sees that his newly adopted love the Republican party cannot win f I If It the Republicans could convince any large number of voters that they stand a chance to win the only result would be the election of Bransford They know that as well as anybody and that is probably why they are working so strenuously to divide the Democratic strength They dont want to see politics restored to straight par party party party ty lines they dont want to give the Democracy a chance to carry the city they and their chairman may think there t ere is a bare pare possibility of Republican Republican Republican lican success but it would please them much better to have another Ameri Amen American can administration than to have Mor Morris Morna ris na and his associates on the ticket go into power on Jan 1 |