Show COMMERCIAL CLUB SHOULD ACT I ITHE THE THE publicity bureau of the Salt Lake City Commercial club is preparing 1 to send out folders booklets etc eta intended to present facts and condi conditions conditions conditions here in a way that will lead to making a greater Salt Lake City and a 3 better developed state and for this purpose is accepting the aid and CO COoperation COoperation cooperation operation of many citizens A few weeks ago The had bad an announcement from New York that Thomas Taomas Kearns of Utah and Pred Fred T Dubois of Idaho were making arrangements with ith an eastern magazine Pearsons to commence an assault upon Utah and upon the heads of the national government There were some people here who expressed disbelief in the probability of such an infamy but it has been instituted just as indicated in The and the September 1910 number of Pearsons contains as its leading article twelve pages of as vile calumny as was ever aver penned about any community all aU of it having been culled and rehashed from the Salt Lake Tribune The writer in Pearsons Richard Barry says he obtained his material in Salt Lake City Otty The source of his fulminations fulminations fulminations the Salt Lake Tribune now comes out in editorial endorsement of the diatribe as reliable and accurate a fact which locally would brand the th stuff as a tissue of mendacity but people outside of this state are axe not DOt posted so well on conditions here as are the home folks hence the effect on nonresidents is very different to that formed at home With Pearsons interpretations of Mormon doctrine we have nothing to todo todo todo do But in Pearsons assault upon Utah and still more in its attack upon the heads of the American nation The and all aU good citizens in Utah are vitally interested because of the vile false and unjustifiable unjustifiable unjustifiable nature of the attack The article in Pearsons compiled from front Mr Kearns publicity bureau in this city makes the charge against two of the greatest men this country has produced former President Roosevelt and President Taft that they purchased the electoral vote of Utah that they were guilty of the basest form of bribery known to man that Theodore Roosevelt himself made the bargain II and that it was ratified again by Taft in 1908 The article charges that vote was sold to the interests named by reason of the alleged fact that Of The he Mormon church with its political hierarchy and its bewildering despotic grip upon its people holds in an iron hand lIand the destiny of the region And reaching out through the states it penetrates public affairs it controls legislatures legi mayors councils governors congressmen and sen son senators senators it ascends the steps of the capitol at Washington it en enters enters enters the White House and sits in confidential commune with the President of the United States w a But and now I quote a man high in the councils of the Republican party in the west one who supported both Roose loose Roosevelt Roosevelt loosevelt velt and Taft and one who was intimately enough concerned in the campaign of 1904 to be fully conversant with the sub subject subject subject lIe he was discussing by this description and the known cir circumstances circumstances circumstances Thomas Kearns then senator and aspiring for re reelection election But he said to me as the fall of 04 arrived the pres pressure pressure sure of events became too fierce for Roosevelt to stand You will win recall that along in September the Republican leaders be ba became came Roosevelt It looked I to Irli hll of if them th m as if jf Parker might be elected The air was black with Democratic gains Roosevelt thought he needed every ounce of strength he could command He feared the election might turn on a small handful of electoral votes I In that crisis Roosevelt did what anyone who knows him as I do knows he will do in the thick of any fight use the first weapons his hand can reach rea h and fight in any way to win In this instance one of the first political agents lIe he sought was a representative of the Mormon church He knew that by a suitable bargain or compromise he could get nine electoral votes three each from Utah Wyoming and Idaho and he lie was deeply afraid that nine votes in the electoral col college college collego lege lego might spell the difference between victory and defeat 11 II I It was under these conditions of political stress of that Theodore Roosevelt him himself himself himself self made the bargain with the Mormon church which exists to this day for it was ratified again by Taft and his managers in the campaign of 1908 The church agreed to deliver to Roosevelt the electoral votes of Utah Wyoming and Idaho in exchange for three things 1 A cessation of the movement and agitation with within in the Republican party for an amendment to the federal con constitution constitution constitution giving to Congress the power to legislate concerning polygamy and polygamous living 2 A defense of Reed Smoot apostle and representative of the Mormon hierarchy as a senator of the United States and a vote for his retention of his seat in the Senate and 3 A disposition of federal pat patronage patronage I in Utah and surrounding states in obedience to the I wish of the Mormon hierarchy expressed to the federal ad administration administration administration ministration through Apostle Postle Reed Smoot Pearsons story is replete with mendacity concerning Utah Wyoming and Idaho Referring particularly to Salt Lake City this municipality is advertised as a pest house for disease that Salt Lake is the only city in inthe inthe inthe the United States where you will find smallpox all aU the year Accusations in great number could be quoted from the article but we have taken enough to put this matter up squarely to the Salt Lake City Commercial club when by reason of the making a special effort eff rt to attract deservedly favorable attention to Salt Lake City and Utah it iti i becomes directly the Commercial clubs bounden duty to the people know knowing knowing knowing ing these statements to be false to make vigorous and effective refutation of the gross slander There is just one way for the Commercial club to place itself itsel definitely ly lyon lyon on record as really r ally a friend to Salt Lake and Utah one way to show its determination to stand for truth and right against the liar and the sian slanderer slanderer derer one way for it to be honest and square with the people whose money and ariti moral support it is receiving one way for it to retain the respect of the decent public That one way is to come out in prompt open and fearless denunciation of the Pearsons Pearson 8 falsehoods and of the unscrupulous mendacity of the in inspirers inspirers inspirers of at the article which is but one of a promised series of similar kind If the Commercial club does not take that way its distribution of folders and booklets is a useless labor so far as bringing benefits to Utah is con concerned concerned concerned The article in Pearsons and the present publicity work of the Commer Commercial cial club have placed the managers of the squarely up against the immediate necessity of showing the public where they stand The men who inspired Pearsons article have forced the issue It is the Salt Lake City Commercial clubs next move Of course some men say that Pearsons article is rubbish rot It or magazine sensation so clearly unreliable that none will believe it that it will strike the discriminating reader thereof merely as a josh The readily concedes the humorous in the article and here quotes an illustration The writer in Pearsons trying to support suppo his claim that there are arc only two Irishmen in the Mormon church declares that the Irish blood is essentially monogamous essentially chaste Ye gods Thomas Kearns essentially chaster chaste Thomas Kearns Kearn instigator tor of the Pearsons article and moral reformer is by his own Continued on Page Two WOODRUFF PUTS THE BLAME ON SHOULDERS OF GRISCOM Continued From Page One the notion action was in no sense intended as an act of ot hostility toward you nor one ORe of or reflection upon you Then the statement reads in part partI I know of no party part principle upon which we are at present divided in inthis Inthis inthis this state except that Involved in the proposal to abolish the convention system system system tem of or making nominations and to sub substitute substitute therefore the direct nomination plan which has been characterized as the device of or the demagogue and the millionaire Those who are opposed to this pol policy icy and who believe Its introduction In this state will lead lend to further en encroachments of or Ideas will If Ir chosen delegates to the Saratoga convention properly endeavor to pre prevent prevent prevent vent the hasty committing of ot itself to this folly tolly The spirit that is behind this agitation for direct primary nominations nom nominations is far more dangerous than anything that the proposition Itself embodies The radicalism which in this statement is directed against the rep rop representative representative system of nominating by convention will If given its head next menace the stability of ot Industry and frighten enterprise I 1 am glad Iad to know that Mr Roose Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt velt Intends to go to the Saratoga con convention convention convention and present his ideas on un and other subjects The importance of ot this convention will thereby be gr great greatly at atly ly 11 enhanced and the superiority of the convention system to the direct nom nomination nomInation method demonstrated On the part of myself and other regulars gulan r t there thero ere is no personal warfare Involved In hi iii this matter nor has there been Our Interest lies where it al always always always ways has basIn hasin in the tho success V of the party when its progressiveness does not vio violate violate violate late its ita It tradition Mr Woodruffs Woodruff s only comment on Colonel speech at the tho El EI club In Buffalo this morning was Colonel Roosevelt is no more mere anxious anxIous ious tuua to get g t the crooks cut Gut of or the party than I am I guess we are all agreed on that |