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Show I TRUTHS H Under ordinary circumstances this H paper would be opposed to the '.cm- H pnrary obliteration of political lines H involved in the proceeding called fu- H sion. It would be so now if it were H a political election ahead of us or po- H litical issues involving party princi- H I les were features of the campaign. B Hut such is not the case. We are. in H a contest which not only justifies H but in some sense demands that the H better element of our people act to- H gethcr and for the time being let H 1 1 i ir repuhlicaliism or democracy, a- H the case may be, lie upon the shelf. H This is necessary in order that a H combination itself composed of not B only both but all otlur parties and HJ eniLracing the very worst of rneh, Hi whose chief characteristic is a swag- HJ gering and insolent disregard of the HJ ; coplc's rights and an insatiate greed HJ for the spoils, may be run down and HJ banished from the field. Thi- un- HJ savory organization is by. no means HJ in the majority here; if it were our HJ cans.? would be heirless without the Hb aid of providential interposition; Lut HJ it is stronger than any other Hugh HJ 1 arty in our midst and relics upon HJ the otl'.crs being divided and acting HJ separately as they did two years ago, HJ to win. This of itself is one of the HJ strongest arguments in favor of the HJ better classes all getting together. HJ Salt Lake City has been mismanag- Hh eJ and misgoverned long enough. M Wiitli the legal limit pi indebtedness HJ , long since passed, those in control, HJ v itli a recklessness and disregard of HJ law that amount to criminality, con- HJ tiuuc adding to the volume of debt HJ by the issuance of warrants which HJ call for cash, the cash icsclf bcinq nil HJ Lccausc of the constant and in- HJ creasing drain to which the looters HJ have subjected it. Taxes have been HJ and ar,e being levied for improvc- HJ ments that arc not made, the tax rate HJ is h'ighcr than ever before in the HJ city's history, icxtravagancc and in- HJ competence characterize most of the' HJ departments, and an army of undcr- HJ lings whose service in no sense and at HJ no time corresponds with the HJ amounts paid them arc fastened upon H the overburdened community. This HJ is a bad showing; it is worse than HJ that it is disgraceful; and unless H those responsible for it arc beaten at H the polls and banished from the pub- H lie stations, it will inevitably be con- H tinued for an indefinnite period. HJ There arc plenty of precedents and HJ examples for fusion if any were necd- HJ ied. There is not i large city in the H United States that lias not had to rc- HJ sort to it one time or another in some HJ cases frequently. When a corruption HJ gang fastens itself upon a community HJ and becomes entrenched through fa- HJ vors and rewards to the lower and HJ viler elements, it happens in the HJ course of time that the moral con- Q sciousness of the better class, so long HJ appealed to without response, wakes HL flHHHB up at last and party labels arc discarded dis-carded for the time being until the rascals arc turned out and the lvalues lval-ues to authority so safely guarded that they ar,e kept out for a good while, the performance being repeated repeat-ed as often as necessary. Yes, all things considered, you may set this paper down as favoring fusion.. fu-sion.. Th other day as Jake Grecncwald was walking along Second South street in the proper pursuit of his business as collector of the port of Salt Lake he was halted by a well known contractor who poured into Jake's ear a talc of woe about the fusion of the republicans and democrats demo-crats on councilmauic tickets. The contractor lamented that the fusion meant the utter and permenent obliteration ob-literation of party lines and a renewal renew-al of the old Mormon and anti Mormon Mor-mon church fight. Is fusion of the republicans and (Umocrats to abate a public nuisance wrong?" asked Jake. "Docs it mean a church and anti church fight? "I'leasc explain to me what kind of a co-allition exists in the 'American' party. It is a fusion of disgruntled republicans, democrats, pimps, prostitutes, pros-titutes, thieves and thugs for gafl. The cry against fusion of the decent republicans and democrats is like the thief yelling stop thief. I was a member of the old Liberal party, worked for it, spent my money on it and stayed with it till it accomplished its work. I have no use for -uch a fusion as the 'American' party represents." rep-resents." Then a fcflow known as "Butch ' L.owcry chipped in with a lament about republican and democratic fusion fu-sion and a renewal of the church quarrel. Jake silenced him quickly vith the assertion that he, "Dutch's, vote could be purchased by Jake for one drink of whiskey. No doubt where Jake stands when it is a .,ucs-tion .,ucs-tion of beating any party that is opposing op-posing republicanism, Jake is looking look-ing for success next year and is making mak-ing a fight for the principles of the republican party and not over looking look-ing the fact that the election machinery ma-chinery is also imperilled. One of the funniest things of this campaign is the Herald's treatment or lack of treatment of the fusion of the democrats and republicans on the councilmanic tickets. The fact if the matter is the masses of the democratic democrat-ic party arc heartily in favor of fusion. fu-sion. The Herald and a few of the old time leaders of the party arc against it. The masses have taken the bit in their teeth and run away from their leaders, ignored them and thrown them over completely. The Herald and some others opposing fusion fu-sion arc in strong sympathy with the "Americans." They have known all along that Mr. Morris can't possibly be elected and their game is to hold enough democrats and draw enough republicans away from the republican ticket to allow the "Americans" to win. Their scheme is so transparent that even a child can sec through it. Merchants of this city and people who live in rented houses think rents are high enough and they are too high. The Real Estate association is largely composed of and entirely ruled by a lot of "American" party grafters and "sure thing" men who live by their wits. They make money mon-ey by keeping rents up to the highest high-est notch. They are fakirs akin to the leaders of the "American" party. No sooner was the election which put the "American" party in power over than these real estate fakirs raised rents all over the city. The same sharks are working for the success suc-cess of the "Americans" again to make another raise. It is well understood under-stood among them that in case of "American" success a general advance ad-vance will be made. A female canvasser for the "Amcri- can" party, while registration was under un-der way, called on a' young clerk on Main street, he being old enough to register, but having failed to do so. His reason, as stated, was that once his name appeared on the list of voters vot-ers he would be called on for poll tax. "Oh, we can fix that well enough," said hc canvasser. "You just go on and register and we will pay your poll tax if you will agree to vote our ticket." He didn't agree; but how docs this strjkc the thinking citizen as a "plan of campaign?" Let there be a strict watch kept upon the registration lists and some vigilant watchers, who cannot be bluffed, at the polls. There arc more than jooo illegal "American" registrations. The brag and bluster of the Amcri-kearns Amcri-kearns leaders don't count as votes. It's mostly superheater air, very rarefied air. The fact of the matter is there are 1500 voters in the city who voted the "American" ticket last time who won't vote it this year. To maintain their vote of a year ago the "Americans" will have to depend on tlie new comers, and there arc not enough of them to make up for the loss. There is under the surface a very well defined determination to heat the "Americans." Those people peo-ple arc not making much noise but they are going to vote and Miat's what counts. Harry Joseph is good to the dead as well as to the living. Recently the Hebrew Congregation Monte-fiore Monte-fiore decided to plat out and beautify its corner in the City cemetery. It needed to be surveyed and the different dif-ferent grave plots staked. To do this would have cost probably a couple of hundred dollars. Harry don'l belong be-long to the Congregation Monte-fiore, Monte-fiore, but that didn't matter. He got a few of his friends to join him and Harry being somewhat of a surveyor sur-veyor himself they all went up to the cemetery and under Harry's directions direc-tions the survey was soon made and the lots staked off and to boot Harry supplied the stakes. Wiith the following vote a year ago how can any one who lays any claim to sanity think that the democrats are stronger than the republicans? Amer. Rep. Dem. First ward 2475 2025 1231 Second ward 2226 1879 1027 Third ward 896 1658 940 Fourth ward 1247 1308 886 Fifth ward 1713 806 553 Totals 8S9S 773& 4638 Which is the stronger, the republicans republi-cans with 7736 vitcs or the democrats with 4638? After the election which put the "Americans" in office the real estate fakirs, taking advantage of the fool I , sentiment that the "American" ad- ' ministratioin would make times ,jood, immediately raised rents on every ! class of property, on the cottage of the laborer to the big business block. The same fakirs are lurking by the wayside to hit the renters with another an-other advance in case the "Americans" "Ameri-cans" win this election. 1 That was a great discovery Good- ' win's Weekly made last week. Five thousand "Americans" were not registered reg-istered for the last election. Wonder Won-der where the Weakly has had them hidden away for the past twelve . months. However that's a matter of secondary importance. The Weakly Weak-ly promises they will be trotted out ) on November 5. 1 Look at your tax receipt and note the advance by the "American" ad-. ad-. ministration. The "great meeting" in the Fourth ward last week is likely to prove a boomerang to the "American" party. Nothing savoring quite so strongly of the slums has ever received countenance coun-tenance of reputable people. The song that was s ung, "Everybody works but Joseph," was neither skillful, skill-ful, apt, humorous, pointed nor ny-thing ny-thing .else but vulgar, low and ilto- gether contemptible. Now they are talking of transmitting transmit-ting power by the wireless method. Vet some silly grafters would have us believe that the childish story concerning the angel and the plates is true. Tribune Place this alongside the Tribune's oft-repeated statement that it or its party docs not assail the Mormon r.cligion and see how well they iook together! The Tribune says it would be of interest to learn where the opposing principles of the democratic and republican re-publican parties find a common ground of union. The common ground of union is the principle of opposition to fraud, brazen dishonesty dishon-esty and open graft. Perfectly safe ground. The Tribune don't want information in-formation on that 'point half so urgently ur-gently as it pretends to. It is real funny, as the Woodbine's tqueakly would say, to observe the intensity of the "American" opposition oppo-sition to fusion, the fuunincss oc- curring is the fact that but for fusion fu-sion and the worst kind of fusion at that there would and could be no such party in .existence as the Amcri- kearns. If any of Dave Dunbar's auditors in this campaign should hail from Missouri and demand to he shown, he will have no difficulty about producing pro-ducing with celerity, for the benefit of such, a sign (made of tin) to point the way they should go. Mr J. F. Gibbs insists upon it that he is a Mormon-" Amcrican"-demo-crat. This comes the nearest to the Great Campaign's "gyasticutus" of anything yet developed. The telegraphers' strike is over and it isn't. Reports both ways came along not only consecutively but simultaneously and we will apparently ap-parently have to wait yet a while to determine which if either side wins. The Kcarns hoodoo has put his mark on the brow of Mr. Bransford. 'Tis true, 'tis pity and pity 'tis, 'tis true. Two weeks more will practically end the campaign. It will also be the beginning of the end of the "American" "Ameri-can" party. The rank and file of the democratic party favor fusion and they won't be dictated to by any leaders or bosses. |