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Show Notorious Polyganiist Is Here -to Boost for Sutherland and . Howell's Re-Election. EASTERN "INTERESTS" LIKE ' 'M WAY BOTH HAVE VOTED JH No Reason Why Any Wage-.Earner Wage-.Earner Should Support Either of These. .H BY MAC. - Our old and. elusive friend, Ben Rich, H has come to tho front as a champion of Smool, Sutherland and Howell. Un thinks it would be a'great mistake if the peoplo should not return Luther-land, Luther-land, and Howell. Ho speaks as ono gifted with the power of prophesy. . Ben is the chief cook and prevari- H cu tor of the eastern stales . mission. Ho has taken two wives since the ' manifesto at least two though it would not surprise anyone if it wore 1 found that he has a dozen. Tint Ben ' IH has been telling eastern magazine t ' writers that there is no now polygamy. .1 and that Ihc men who .are charging . these things arc blatherskites and dis-. H reputable. ' "'H Ben docs not mix much with (lie ' commou herd in New. York. He is the s "'H official cultivator of the elite. He jH breaks bread with big business men: and politicians, und of course Ben " 'H knows that these Eastern plutocrats aroa delighted with the uuunimoiis way H which the Utah delegation at 'Wash iugton "sustain" them in congress. .H Tt is difficult; to understand how. any 'H wage earner can vote for Joseph- H Howell or for members of the legisla- H turc who will return Gcorgo Slither- land. These 'men have been the most ?H abject tools of; the great corporate in- tH tcrests in the east. They have done H nothing of consequence for Utah. Their -H votes have been as certainly dotri-mental dotri-mental to the interests, of the men and women of limited incomes as it :H were possible for them to be. u jH Nearly everyone has been staggering t;bH under tiio increased cost of the ncceaai- StH ties of life. And contrary to the ?B high ta rift arguments, there has not iH been a corresponding increase in one's- VH earning, 'i he entire game played by itB Snioot, Sutherland and . Howell has , 'H been to add to the daily struggle of tho man and woman who toils. -,w.h .-vlwiH In the casterii;'fe'ii"tVal':nrd' "oil tenfe'' 5H western states the people arc in arms Vl against every member of congress nnd 'ul every United Stales senator who voted . - i3H for the Payne-Aldrich tariff -outrage. They know that to return the men who v til made that measure a law is to vote vH against their own interests. The re- VH suit thus far has been almost a rcvoly- 'tH Lion. .If Howell is .returned ho will be one of a .'-mall minority of congressmen 3H that arc elected in the New England 'V''H states lie will have no opportunity lo do uuything for Ulah, if he hud the sv-M -ability. ' ' V 'H The party which Snioot and Slither- laud "sustained'" by their votes li;u$ been thoroughly ropudiutcd. Such men iH us Hale, Aldrich and other tools of the vl great protected iutercsts have been , lVH forced to cover. The progressives will jl control in conjunction wit. ' the iude- H pendent Democrats. il Let Utah get in line with I be rest pf -r tbo progressive people of the United rl States. The way to do this is to re- m "H pudintc Howell uud Sutherland. Many Salt J inkers arc still smarting ?5?B over the dirty insinuations cast against ""iiH Jack Grocsbcck by Attorney Hurry Ed- ' wards and others in the Republican A; count' convention, Edxvurds led tho KaiiB fight for Bassett, and, iu order to !H stampede the delegates who were not Vi'l instructed tp vote against Grocsbcck, ' be declared with characteristic feeling 'Vl that if Groesbcck wero nominated, tbo jvl convention would thereby "hang a mill- -fSM stono around the neck of the Itcpub- V licans of Suit Lake county.' 3 'x'l Tho insinuation is strong thut Groos- il beck had done something which the V'!B party could not stand for, thus calling ''i&H for "tbc donuiiicution of Edwards by H Dclcguto Hays and olhcrs. But Ed- wards had dbqe the work. He pulled . -?fH his man through by a small veto, and At4H there is no question in tbc world but that bv his mischievous insinuation WM turned enough votes from Groosbeck tu nomiuato a tithe-paying deputy iu the 'xB county clerk's oflice. BB Now -what was this all done tor! Was Edwards sincere, or was ho merely net ?B ing like a paid agent of one of Ibu i'SittM lesser bauks of Sail Lako City, whoso candiduto Bassett Is 7 ,5VH This thing of banks nominating can- Cftl didatcs for treasurer i order lo con- ""iPVI trol tho deposits of public funds should -1 be stopped. It is not fair to tbo pub- .PZZH lie nor to other candidates who may 'vlH ho aspiring to that oflice. iiMrB Eortuuatelv, the Americans nominal.- uffitM cd a man who docs not have to-msike iitfv terms in adva-neo with any bunking "iM house. Charlev Kecd is one of tho niosf. . J'1 substantial men of Salt Luko City, aud ? if bo has a vole of confidoiicci.us ho kt"rB corluinly will have, ho will go into or- lice with u bond which ho: cau giro , f fttM without being obliged to hawk: lus- au-count au-count iu order to comply -with tho( ro- quircmcnts of tbc law. 'jyybH ".I supported Margaret Zanc g'dlM for county clerk two-ycara ago, W'V'Hfe: a well-known club -woman Jf p-hc V SB writer yesterday, Mil ioviug that luxs. 'J,!M Witchor would bo permitted by the hu-' thonties to contrql her office. .T seu that in tho list of cmp oyoe iu IhfT -jfS vderk-'s ollioc thero is but a fow Uolfr tiles, and that Iho groator number 'SSJSpM mudo up of members of tbo fmuihq QtyV, tygj&BL'M tbo Smoot -Cullistcr-KIdrodgc maiHitnttj -f rW? Of course, f am disappointed, for -.JfV-'.M no idea that 'such a thing fledi learned, however, thut the couuIy missioncrs, under the domi nutioifpf -vv that man M'ackay. will not jjkfy MiwJ8- j Wilcher lo run bur ofhec iWv'f HV'l0.' - sires. T was shocked to Cnil'fjthi Mg MrVH wns forced to cniploy.au eVfa;r oCvBt'vM dominant church as. marrnfrjo l?8-:' Continued oiCPugo ''fbrpoJ1 . tfjT&lit;' ' QUEER MISSION OF BEN RICH Continued From Page One. clerk so that ho could got the 1 rake-off rake-off ' of tho marriage J'ecs. I did not think it possible that Mrs. Wit'chcr would stand for u thing of that kind, remembering, as I do, the record which her father made in territorial. days. It is really too bud that the county organization or-ganization is such that Mrs. Witchor is compelled to submit to such indignities." indig-nities." ''Don't you think it at. least charitable char-itable to say that Mrs. Witcher perhaps per-haps would not do these thinis if she were not compelled to submit to the system?" J asked. "Woll, maybo it is, "but; I do not like it, and f Icuownm number of my friends who feel .iusfc as I do about it. f shall voto my ticket straight this year. 1 shall do so, not only because T. do not bcliqvc it is right for us to condone such a thing,- but because I hear that all of' the patronage of tho oflice is used to bolster up the Ilcrald-Ttcpublican, Ilcrald-Ttcpublican, which 1 believe is tho vilest newspaper ever printed in Utah." Stick a pin here. The appointment of the deputy sheriffs at the suggestion sugges-tion of Governor Spry -will bo found to be the sorriest piece of politics "tho bunch"' has ever played. Why, some of these men act like thugs. They accost ac-cost citizens with the most impertinent questions, and already several tragedies trag-edies havo been narrowly averted, due to the unofficial appearance of thcao men, which caused them to be mistaken mis-taken for highwaymen. One of the deputies appointed is a negro who has a white woman as his housekeeper. Throe or four of I hem are absolute vagrants themselves, having hav-ing no means of support. Ono was dismissed dis-missed .from the polico .force a i'cw months ago for dishonorable conduct. Two, at least, arc common drunkards, and these men arc employed to keep the peace! The recent rauls 'verc .made following follow-ing the refusal of tho victims of theso raids to contribute to the liopublican campaign fund. One bunch of men is said to havo been captured and rclcuscd on the promise of their lender lo put up two hundred dollars. And did you notice that in the raid on the stockado iioug of the "Macks'-" were taken in 7 They certainly were not, because 1 If ey have Ihe protection of tho notorious negro lawyer named .Tames Nash, alias Lawreneo Marsh, who himself lives with a white .woman, and whom the respectable negroes of Salt Lake hold in tho suprcmcst contempt. con-tempt. It is almost beyond belief the amount of crooked work which tlio sheriff's ofiico has done in order to retain control con-trol of the affairs of Salt Lake county. And the people of Salt Lake need not be surprised if some outrages are-committed on citizens by criminals who impersonate tho raft "of irresponsibles who are sworn in as "emergency deputies." Finding that Governor Spry's letter and the scandalous resolutions of the county commissioners .justifying their appointment of deputies reacting in this city, some of the managers of the local Republican machine are beginning to stand from under. They admit this action has not. had the effect thev c.vpcctcd. The whole affair hna disgusted almost everybody, ft is a boomerang. Kvcn the friends of tho Smont. machine ma-chine phv it was nothing short of an outrage for Governor Spry, ihe county commissioners, tho News and the irer-ald-Iiopublican to throw mini on- the city in order to take some political advantage. ad-vantage. Some arc disposed to criticise the Associated Press because it sent out the story of the governor's action. But what else could have been expected? ex-pected? The governor of this state is supposed to know what he is talking about. And when the weight of his oflice is given to a statement, a progs agency more than likely would put that statement on the wire. Of course, the Associated Press has. attempted lo correct this by showing that the outire affair was in its nature political. It is doubtful, however, if tho newspapers will make use of the second story. Thev certainly played up the governor's gov-ernor's slander to tlio everlasting in jury of Salt Lake. And it will take a good deal of hard work to correct the impression which tlio governor's state-incut state-incut madn upon the country. If tlio business men. real estate dealer? and real estate owners of Salt Lake (Tty do their duty at. the polls on "November S. it wi)l be- possible for the Associated Press lo show that Hie peoplo of Salt Lake expressed their disapproval dis-approval of tho political machine I hat .fathered that, slander of tlio city. Hvcry real friend of Salt Luke City knows that this is the proper thing to do. And it will not bo surprising if the repudiating of tho slanderers takes fJmshajoofa tidal wae. |