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Show For President REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET William Howard Taft. For County Commissioner (Four- For Vice President . Y?5r Term) James Schoolcraft Sherman. pm SSSyr Term) FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS Walter J. Burton, Forest Dale. Thomas Sevy, Garfield County. 'r Clm.'yi,ClcrQ u t u t t u tr ,t. i rr. . ' Margaret Zane Witcher, Salt Lake. , i Lafayette Holbrook, Utah County. por sheriff w Henry Cohn, Salt Lake County. Joseph C. Sharp, Salt Lake. For Attorney REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET oCmmty RccordS.0' For Governor Fred J. A. Jaques, Salt Lake. William Spry, Salt Lake County. For County Auditor For Justice of the Supreme Court Frank Heginbotham, Salt Lake. W. M. McCarty, Sevier County. For County Assessor For Representative in Congress Amos S. Gabbott, Farmers' Ward. Joseph Howell, Cache County. For County Treasurer For Secretary of State John A- Groesbeck, Salt Lake. C. S. Tingey, Juab County. For County Surveyor For State Treasurer Joseph B. Swenson, Salt Lake. David Mattson, Weber County. , l'r State Senators For State Auditor Charles E. Marks. Salt Lake; S. J. Jesse D Jewkes SeT County. SM?BfiL HUSCI Carl ' A R V? AttTGcCrral t ' For Representatives A. R. Barnes, Salt Lake County. j h j Cannon, Farmers' Ward; For Superintendent of Public Instruc- Daniel McRae, Granger; Brigham . , t'" Clegg, Salt Lake: T. L. Holman, . A. C. Nelson, Sanpete County. Bingham; J. M. Holt, South Jordan; E. C. Ashton, Salt Lake; E. J. Eard- REPUBLICAN JUDICIAL TICKET $Jf ke Hug hMcM illin. For Judge Third Judicial District Lake; Claude V. Russell. Salt Lake. Hon. Charles W. Morse. , REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET. Hon. George G. Armstrong. For Judges Hon. Morris L. Ritchie. J- J- Whitaker, J. M. Bowman. tt n-u t t For Justice of the Peace Hon. Thomas D. Lewis. Stanley A. Hanks. For District Attorney For Constable Frederick C. Loofbourow. Peter Hansen. I One of the burning questions discussed in political circles today -1 .seems to be the signing of petitions for the plaping of additional tickets in the field for presidential electors. The Republican party takes the broad view that there is no more need for a Taft Liberal ticket than there is for an American party in Utah. Those of the American party who want to vote their own local ticket may do so, and at the same time vote the Republican national ticket, carrying the name of William Wil-liam H. Taft. The first canvass of the Republican county committee reveals the fact that the voters in the American party who are completely dominated domin-ated by the inner circle, are going to vote for Bryan, while nearly all of the Republicans will vote, of course, for Taft. Those former Republicans Re-publicans who were disappointed in not getting the offices they sought, and who cling to the skirts of the Kearns managers with the hope of some day getting a public job, will do just as they are told by the dinner circle and vote for Bryan, i The main object of the Kearns managers in aiding the Democratic party nationally is to bring about the defeat of the Republican party in the nation only for the purpose of grinding their own axes at home, and insuring the appointing of Democratic federal officials who will show their appreciation for the assistance by furthering the ambitions of Kearns and his crowd in paying the price at a future date. Of course, in doing this the American party outfit is giving the double cross to all of the Republicans in the American party who still hold their allegiance to the national party, although they have wavered on local issues. Now, the issue in Utah is not so much whether the doors of the penitentiary shall be thrown open to the Mormons because of theit icligious belief, and not so much whether the "Republican Rabble" is Jess desirable than the Kearns outfit, but whether the Republicans in ri the American party shall be alloAved to vote their predilections on the I national ticket. The Republicans in the American party who still retain re-tain independence of thought and action will not regard the attempt of the inner circle to deceive or mislead them with the same degree of appreciation as those in the party who are willing to truckle to the nod and beck of the inner circle. I i P - Here is a situation where Tom Kearns, formerly a Republican, but ,fl now a rabid enemy of the Republican party, surrounds himself with M disappointed office-seekers, disgruntled politicians, who are claiming ! to be national Republicans, and yet who are doing their best to satisfy fl their own personal ambitions by encompassing the defeat of the Re- iH publican party in every manner known to shrewd and unscrupulous ; H politicians. ill They dare not come out in the open and tell their own people ' B what they are trying to do, for they know that in the American party i there is an element of independent citizens who would feel it an actual I i calamity if the Republicans in the nation were defeated. These people IH are blinded of the real object of the leaders of the Kearns movement. " j.H They probably arc infatuated with the cry "Down with the hicrarch" M or they may be laboring under the delusion that in the American party 1 jfl lies the solution of the problem that now spells anything but peace. iH Again they may be charmed by the clamor that the American party H is one of progress, thinking maybe that it offers the best advantages :.H to the citizens of Salt Lake and the state. They are blinded to the fl fact that graft lurks in every public office that the American party has controlled in the three years of its existence. They probably have for- H gotten the reeking scandal of the police department which culminated fl in the disgraceful episode involving George Sheets, or the unpleasant H scandal that has kept the street department in a turmoil for nearly , H two years, or they have forgotten the bad business management of the H city administration which brought every official in Salt Lake City into ' H disrepute and wound up in a bank full of unpaid warrants, and a city H treasury whose chief recommendation to public attention is a scream- H ing overdraft amounting to nearly half a million dollars. H Another feature that might appeal to the saner members of the H American party is along the line of this intemperate crusade against a H icligious class. H The chief objection of the leaders of the American party to certain . H public officers is that they arc Mormons. They preach to their people ' H that a Mormon cannot think for himself, act for himself, or conduct a H public office in the best interest of the whole people, because he is H tinder the domination of the Mormon priesthood. H To the newcomers the inner circle says : "Mormons are not good , H citizens." If the American party, with national recognition, were H sincere, they never would go to their own people and ask them to vote j H for a Mormon as they have done in placing names of the presidential j H electors of the two great parties at the head of their state tickets. If H the rank and file of the American party obey orders from Kearns and . H vote the Taft-Libcral or Bryan-National tickets, then they will be H voting for a Mormon. ' H Two years ago the Americans in their greedy desire for office for- H got just what problem they were fighting for and nominated not only H a Mormon but a polygamist on their legislative ticket. These things H as well as a great many others they want the people to overlook. They j H do not like to be reminded of anything that might reflect upon their H sincerity. H The American party offers nothing for the future, but gives a promise of the present. The promises of the future that have been 1 H mad.e in the past have never been fulfilled. The party has accom- H plished nothing, will accomplish nothing. The leaders of the move- 1 H ment arc unscrupulous to the last degree, and would barter their I leadership to satisfy personal ambition. That will be proven. I Tom Kearns bought the Tribune to put a stop to the "fight on the Mormons." After he gained possession of that paper he did stop the I fight, just as long as he was in the Senate of the United States. After he had disgraced himself and cast reflections upon the state which he represented, it was deemed inadvisable to return him to the Senate, ,1 and as a result of this he became a Mormon hater, and started over ;:gain the fight that he stopped. I The Republicans believe that they have the solution of the prob- lem and the balm of peace. They believe that all Republicans should stay in the party and fight the fight, if they have any, but not go out- side to do it. H Battling Nelson is apparently trying to side-step an engagement II with Freddie Welsh. Bat wants a guarantee just a little larger than II Jim Jeffries is willing to give. Jeff wants him to fight on the per- SI ccntagc basis, but the champion can't see it that way. 'Negotiations 91 arc s.till in progress, however, and Welsh may yet get a chance to l see what he can do with the Dane. jfl A conference of men interested in college athletics was held in fl this city last week, at which a committee was appointed to revise ill the rules of the Utah Intercollegiate Athletic association. A motion l prevailed that students be permitted to play summer baseball, pro- viding they do not sign national agreements, and it was decided to adopt wrestling as an intercollegiate sport, a committee being ap- , pointed to draw up rules and report at next meeting. A committee ' 8 was also appointed to draw up the basket ball schedule for the sea- j |