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Show PUBLIC SCHOOL ELECTION NEM Will Be of Great Importance. Matter to Be Feared Is What (Wight Be Done in Retaliation. Re-taliation. Broad-Minded. Trustees Alone Should Bo Elected to This Impor- tant Position. On Wednesday, December 7, the voters of Salt Lake City will say to whom shall bo Intrusted tho management of the public pub-lic schools of the city. It will bo an Important Im-portant contest one wherein Is Involved tho most sacred of American institutions. It Is not so much a qucatlon as to who controls tho schools now or who has dono so In the past as tho tendency of tho Mormon Mor-mon hlorarchy to reach out and control everything in fight political, educatlonat and commercial. This force becomes stronger and more determined to rulo every year since Ut first defeat by the Liberal clement of the Stato and tho unfortunate compromise that followed the agreement to stand together to-gether In obtaining Statehood. Hb forces are entering every avenue of public and business life. Tho victory of the political cccleslasts last wcclc has already al-ready mado many of the leaders overbearing over-bearing and haughty. They are now secretly se-cretly planning a raid on Salt Lako county coun-ty that, If consummated, will bo ono of tho most outrageous political schemes ever attempted In tho West. It Is Intended to perfect the machine and mako It even more formldablo than heretofore. Danger of Church Control. Tho people of Salt Lako will be given an opportunity to checkmato tho cccleslas-llco-polltlcal machine next month. Unless this Is done the chances are that tho public pub-lic schools will be mado Intrenchments of power as are tho greater number of the county offices. If the cccleslasts win. Is there not reason to bellevo that offensive churchmen will bo given full control? Suppose Prof. J. M. Tanner, the present superintendent of tho church schools of the State, wore to aak for the superin-tendency superin-tendency of tho Salt Lako schools. Is thero not reason to believe, In tho light of recent events, that he be so honored? Such a thing has already been Intimated. Will It bo a case of "ramming polygamy down tho throatB" of tho "enemies"? Tanner Tan-ner did heroic service for the Smootlzed organization. He Ih a. noted polygamlst. lie Is likewise ambitious. Ills expressions and his personal action as a polygamlst are Indorsed by tho leaders of tho church. He would be an Ideal Instrument with which to punish the Gcntllce and tho non-tlthc-paylng Mormons should a majority of the Salt Lako City school trustees be elected by the church crowd next month. Future to Be Looked At. As has been, said, It Is not so much what Is now being done, bad as it Is. as what may be done If the church crowd, angry as It Is now because of tho American party movement. provnllB. Six members of tho school board aro to be elected December 7. Two from tho Fourth precinct and one each from the other four precincts. Tho present members mem-bers are: First Precinct Byron Cummlngs, holdover; hold-over; L. F. Brantlng. Second Precinct M. J. Cheesman, holdover; hold-over; A. G. Glauquo. Third Precinct W. J. Newman, holdover; hold-over; O. W. Moylc. Fourth Precinct Joseph Geoghogan nnd Matt Thomas. Fifth Precinct H P. Henderson, holdover; hold-over; W. A. Nelden. Thomas was elected to 1111 an unexpired term. His place and that of Mr. Geoghc-gan Geoghc-gan must bo filled next month. Tho latter lat-ter will not be a candidate for re-election, It Is understood. It Is reported that a ticket will bo put In the field by tho Dcseret Nows and tho ecclesiastical crowd which will contain tho names of Mormons and "Jack Mormons," Mor-mons," and that It will be paraded as a non-partisan ticket. The American party will nominate candidates can-didates In all precincts nnd mako an ap-peal ap-peal to tho progressive clement In Salt Lako to safeguard the schools by electing men who will treat Mormon and Gcntllb allko In every particular. |