Show ATTEMPT TO COERCE LIQUOR DEALERS t C 1 ROM messenger r for state head j quarters quarter and the warier courier who carries ea ales the letters written by tho the 1 g secretary Vf ot of tb the eai P i Ji Jim M Mole tf I has hIlS como come in handy for or the iT Tribune lie and the I leaders who entered into the deal whereby a the Tribune supports the Democratic 1 ticket and the Democratic J leaden aden un agree avet gr to turn user over of Ute the Democratic vot voto o in the e county to the T Tribune county ticket Fern bas baa introduced a resolution into the city council providing for an ordinance that will Uw the number DUmber of saloons Of course dj d nt t eare maeh about the of saloon saloons as liS he hag has been heen u in is UM tile city ity coursed for quite some time aad and has not done anything to reduce the number of saloons The he intent of the resolution is ie to so frighten the saloon men that they will 00 corn through with a fat tat contribution to tho the cam 9 l vi ign tuna fund Being a the tha Tribune combination thought it would be modi better bettor to have do the work Iti It i of eon notice nomo to te the saloon men that it if they do not get g et in behind toe tIN Tribune aad aid it by their votes their influence and by their it will go hard for tor throat tb u M after tha Various kinds of liquor ordinances have haft been pawed P by 1 the Salt Lako Lake city y council in tho the past few s y years re and ami none noDe of them has been b en enforced There never was any an y intention that they be enforced Tb intention always w was as to use uso these as a slab to force the saloon tt mea area te to be good that t at k is i to fon forgo force e them to come through with graft I The T straits into which aich the party has gotten would seem to indicate that I fi 4 John S H Branford the mayor of Salt Lake has not I z been beeD viry v 1 rj in ft his hie talks talo with the tine saloon men mon It would woul seem that persuasive powers having hU proven insufficient to meet the situa situation situation tion it bad had bean Hoa decided to use 1118 harsher har her As a 0 tool of the emo combination it was up to to introduce intro uce the tho resolution resolution tion id throw the scare re into the saloon men has been promising the saloon men that if the Tribune ticket wins in the t ht the ill not be any liquor legislation to bother them q He II hoe hat told toil them that that if the Tribune wins that they the need fear neither i state stat statewide ilo prohibition nor local option Bransford has seen of the saloon men in Salt Lake and has hu put pat the proposition up to them in that wi way He lie made a good emissary because as a n Tribune follower ho he F could tell them m what that party would do and also as IU a Democrat D he could j peak v to It II h authority on oa the U subject of the t e deal between the Democratic state leaders a wl and l the t lit Tribune Branford Bransford was wa able s le to get some credence when he Ito told the tbt saloon men and ADd the that he had bad promises from the Demo cratie state stAt loaders leaders n that the prohibition campaign was as made mado merely to catch votes fur fin t a Democratic candidate for United States senator and a Democratic Candida 11 fur for Congress And Aud Mayor has bas been active in very telling his story He is is the sort wort of et t Democrat that will be he elected to the tae United States Senate if the j J bu wins As us a free trade Democrat he tie will be La satisfactory sat lra to to the Democratic tc state leaders and he would wold be satisfactory i I f to the as the inner circle of that paper por has always been able to control hi aBa as rv r Therefore is very anxious that the Demo deal A should M y go through But Rut it seem 1 from developments in the city cit council that Bransford did not matte make much ll headway dway It was Wail necessary to use the club and here is is the th club chub just juat as it was wan at introduced by Councilman Fernstrom lackey at Democratic state headquarters Whereas The criminal elements in the largest cities in the west j 1 are now being driven out and are drifting into this city from all allI parts and l I i Whereas The Tho liquor interests in this city and that element are arenow arenow arenow now combined to debauch and corrupt the political parties with money and votes and to defeat the tho enforcement of laws thereby creating crating a demand for an increased police force and Whereas The Tha universal demand is felt among all parties that a ahalt ahalt ahalt halt must be called upon this condition and the only feasible plan plant t i to meet this demand and this condition seem to be to at least reduce the number of saloons say not to exceed thirty or forty in this city 4 therefore be it l t Resolved That a special committee of five be appointed by the president of ot this council to investigate and recommend such amend amendments amendments amendments ments in our liquor license ordinance as may be needed and also to recommend the tho number of licenses licensees to be left to continue in business I Of with Martin E Mulvey in control of the liquor license com corn committee mitt of the tM city and Mr Mulvey with his fortune invested in the liquor business ine J and with ith several licenses Fernstrom thoroughly understood that there IB is no chance to get the number of liquor licenses reduced He lIe Hei i does not Dot want them reduced himself anyway and it is a 11 question whether i Le lie would vote YOte to reduce them if it the question oame came up to him today Fern Fernet Fernstrom Fernstrom et strom rom knows that the liquor men of Salt Lake will get their licenses as usual Ee Tie knows earl and every member of the council knows that this resolution was simply introduced to frighten Ute the saloon men into coming through with sub substantial contributions Wi to the campaign fund and force torce them to do their share into helping Dg out the tH deal with willi the Tribune on the part of the Democratic leaders As the messenger boy at Democratic state headquarters it was fit fitting tin that Fernstrom should be bo selected to do o this work The Th sort of intelligence pos by Fernstrom would make him just the right sort of tool for the purpose and that can be judged fudged by reading i tho the first tiNt paragraph of his hie resolution and then thon considering what he ho said in I debate upon that resolution elution re The latter laUer says that the criminal elements in the largest cities s in the west are arc being driven out Ot and as such drifting I into this thu th community ty from all party And Ind after introducing that resolution the Tribune report of ot the meeting meet q says that Mr Fernstrom took up the sheriffs appointment of fifty special I deputies to rid tho the city of crime classing class classing classing ing this thin a the tue greatest farce over seen soon here kere Either Fi Fernstrom did not read the resolution when it was handed to him himat himat at nt the Tribune office to present in iD ill or he be is i i a greater gre te ass than oven that action would show him to be taking the position at nt one time timo that criminals vere ere flocking into inte the city awl and in is the other that they the wore were not flocking int into the city It ought to show to the dealers that men i of f rt at t least ordinary intelli enee should be bo selected to act not as ns the According to the Best Be t Authority possible one on should treat a c fool ae rJ ll F his folly It was who made certain charges against Mayor Bransford who while tie tLe unwitting tool of a malodorous gang is personally pe ally a n man of oft t repute te The These e charges barges virtually the Ute mayor maOr of being a scalawag No Nobody Nobody body bt them m and Fernstrom had to write an nn apology into the l bOks ks of the city cit in order to retain his seat scat at in the The sort of desperation n that leads laa ls to the use of men like Fernstrom is the sort of desperation that cries aloud its own on defeat |