Show I I i AMONG THE POLITICIANS I 1 ft 10 ever there was In the world an over overworked overworked overworked worked title It is the title of Hon llon A scintillating Illustration of this truth iS s found In an American poster gotten out the other day to advertise a meeting of negroes In Federation of ot Labor hall this evening The black brothers are told they thc will be addressed by Hon Tom Pitt Hon E B A Rogers and nd Hon S P Armstrong t Pitt probably cores conies nearer deserving the title dUe than tha member of ot the trio He ran for on the American ticket and now holds h Ids the position of chief of police He chief however when the bills were gotten out Rogers probably Is given the title because one upon a time he was president of ot the Young Youn Mens American club And Sanpete Armstrong wins because he Is Isan I Inn isan an nn of the American city committee The titles were doubtless tacked on for tor forthe forthe the benefit of ot the among the negroes but even so the prefixes look considerably like hogwash to the intelli inteli intelligent gent observer It Is hard to believe the negroes will be deceived The following communication was re received received yesterday esterday from Richard P Morris the Democratic mayoralty candidate The statement In the Salt Lake Tribune attempting to place me In the attitude of favoring th success of ot the American party part as against the Republican party part partIs is an outrage e I that the success s sot of ot the American party part in the coming municipal election would be a great mis misfortune mIsfortune misfortune fortune to the citizens of Salt Lake City Cit R It P r MORRIS The appointment of Tom Torn Pitt to succeed Roderick McKenzie as chief of police poUce must go on the record as a victory for tor the inner circle of ot the American party This circle sometimes known as the per persuaders persuaders persUaders and sometimes as the evaders made the election of ot W V J Halloran to the mayoralty impossible by b telling the council counell it had to elect him The same crowd tried to land and Pitt as chief of or po lice immediately after Mr Ir Bransford be became became beCame came mayor maor Bransford at that time refused to be dic to Now Non No however he has yielded to the Importunities of the men who really run his party Pitt Is a inner circle man and may ma be depended upon to do exactly as he Is told There must have been a lot of rejoicing in the circle last night when his name was sent to the council A correspondent corr of the Deseret Evening News who signs himself A san an made an error yesterday afternoon that bore every evidence of deliberate and malicious premeditation Evidently with the thought of ot bolstering the waning courage of ot the Republicans he spoke of ot the necessity for members of ot the Demo cratic and Republican parties to get to gether and quoted some figures He said The vote for city officials at the last election stood as follows Then he proceeded to give the city vote in the county election a vote yote that has no bear ing whatever on the present fight The rho real vote In the last city election was as follows Morris Lynch Thompson 1 Lynch carried Just one ne voting district in that election and he was a stronger candidate than Dr Plummer has shown himself to be Lynch did not carry carr a sin gle ward In the city He ran 2560 2860 votes vot s behind Morris and votes behind Thompson And still there are some Re publicans who profess to believe that only with r can Bransford be defeated It makes people smile to hear Republicans cans charge Democrats with desiring the election of the American ticket espe esp especially especially those people that remember that the Republican mayoralty candidate Dr Plummer voted the American ticket In part two years ago and who remember that the last vote cast in Salt Lake by the chairman of the Republican an city commit tee was cast east for the American ticket And Chief Devine was so proud of that vote yote that he went around telling about It ItA ItA ItA A smoker Is to be b given glen In Republican city headquarters Wednesday night be beginning beginning beginning ginning at 8 S There will be plenty of ot free cigars and refreshments and the color line will not be drawn It is under understood understood understood stood that an effort Is going to be made to smoke Dr Plummer Plummet out on the prop proposition as to whether or not he said the Republicans have a n chance on earth to carry the election this year The resignations of five Republican candidates one from each municipal ward were flied filed with the city recorder yesterday The candidates who retire are Fred R Davis C E Davey Albert J Davis Andrew A Smith and John M lL is Hayes |