Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-10-29 | Page 3 | The "I'll Tickle You; You Ticket Me' Club!

From the Evening Telegram. THE "FIX TICKLE YOU; YOU TICKLE ME" CLUB! The officeholders trust in Llali is coming in for some mighty hard jolts this year, as "well as an exposure ex-posure of its methods. A more selfish combination f was never witnessed. ! Smoot wants six more-years in thc spot light and would sacrifice the peace of his church Lo be sue- ecssful again. Sutherland despises Smoot and criticises him savagely sav-agely to his closest friends, but lie is under contract and helps himself by helping the machine. Jody Eldrcdge is to be the chief of the assay office of-fice if the machine wins. He is now county clerk and has always held office of some kind. Sheriff Frank Emery wants Spry elected governor gov-ernor because he is promised the United States mar- shalship if Spry wins. Fussy Jimmy, who is now deputy United States revenue collector, will be made secretary of the state land board if Spry is elected. This gives Fussy control con-trol of from $350,000 to $700,000 of land board funds, the interest on which would be a nice thing. "Mutton Bill -Jones has his eye on the county infirmary again and he is working for the election of Maekay and Burton for commissioner. , . Col. George B. Squires and his wife are both lipid- iug office and the colonel wants to have his pie-counter ticket renewed. Arthur L. Thomas looks forward to another term as postmaster, and .Chief Deputy Kessler, a son-in-law of President Smith, is to be retained if Thomas is reappointed. llyrum E. Booth, Ed H. Callister, Colonel Kaighn, Alphabet Thompson and Thomas Hull have Smoot's promise of reappointment to the federal places they hold. Every deputy sheriff is promised that no change will be made if Joe Sharp is elected. Deputy Sheriff Booth will be permitted to continue his service with the Luke collection agency at public expense. No new places will be opened up for thc workers if the "machine" triumphs next Tuesday because the "officeholders' trust ' is already in power and their families and friends have everything nailed down. It is a beautiful illustration of the. "I'll tickle you if ' you'll tickle me" idea, and it is funny to watch these "machinists" boosting for each other. The astonishing thing is that the "gang" continues contin-ues from 3-ear to year to secure the support of several sev-eral hundred Republicans on pledges that are never kept-