Show THE CITY ELECTION AND THE LESSON IT Partisan politics played the political game to the here on and the result was a victory for our common One year ago good Democrats and Republicans advised all Mormons to vote the Republican ticket to the Kearns This year those same reformers advised their church members in the same manner to vote against the Did the party change for the or those reformers for the Then many Mormons in good standing who voted the Republican ticket one year ago walked up and down our streets declared openly they would rather see the Kearns Americans win than to see Republicans some Mormons of both the Democratic and Republican parties went to Mayor Bransford- and invited him to become their candidate for Bransford did not desire to become a traitor to the Kearns who made him all he is politically and so declined their Many people veiled direct for Bransford because they believed him to be the first choice of the Citizens-Democratic to supplement all of the some Kearns Americans of Judge Powers stripe inveigled some good Democrats into starting the Sunday The Sunday Times is a The last issue of Sunday Times copied from the Salt Lake Tribune a portion of a ribald speech of H. J. a Kearns and on Sunday the Tribune copied a pro-Kearns American editorial from the Sunday The Salt Tribune and the Sunday Times are and they sleep in the same political Partisan politics in local affairs is a menace to In indulging in partisan politics good neighborly friends and say hateful things about each they open old stir up old they join in with the rabble and the mob to beat each and finally end up as bitter politics such Salt Lake has indulged in since the Kearns American party came in the field does not indicate a high state of civilization or but on the Partisan polities has compelled the people of city to put up with brutal editorials and nauseating anti-Mormon family that are daily paraded in the Salt Lake Tribune and its and now we have got to put up with it two years Many peace-loving Gentiles and Mormons who came here to enjoy our excellent our wonderful climate and our grand are now ready to move away because they cannot stand so much Kearns American Tribune They do not desire to rear and educate their in an atmosphere is being daily contaminated by the Kearns American The Kearns Americans can no more break up the Mormon church or its policy or its of or the political of its members than it did the Roman Catholic when it waged the same kind of a bitter warfare from to The he-came stronger each year as the fight and the Mor-mons are much stronger today than they were when Judge Powers and Joe Lippman persuaded Kearns to the Kearns American |