Show The Kearns American Party Bransford our Kearns Mayor is Responsible for the Stockade Slaves FIFTH As a characteristic specimen of the Salt Lake Tribune's hypocrisy and the manner in which it is deceiving the that sheet is now striving to throw the responsibility of the Belle Kearns American stockade on to the and Sheriff Here is a portion of a recent Tribune has become of all that assurance on the part of the county Can it be that be has forgotten his duty and his Can it be that the has paralyzed him by deserting his them it is not in the least a question of but only of We hear that the disgusted at the people of the West Side voting so strongly last November for the told the sheriff they would not back him or his bills for any further work against the Is this the reason why he has dropped his Has in spite of his pledge td the allowed the stockade tr- be habited again by the If then these sh outers for and applauders of the say plainly that they have lost confidence in that he has deceived and betrayed the and place his acts both heretofore and on the low plane of dirty and not on the high plane of The Tribune accuses Sheriff Sharp as a pledge The Real Pledge The real pledge breakers are the Kearns They made a pledge to the people of Salt Lake City to close the stockade if the people would elect their candidates for During the summer of numerous petitions were presented to the city protesting against the of the red light district to the west side of the These petitions became so numerous and the petitioners so insistent that their pe be acted that the municipal laws committee was finally compelled to make some report on the and on September the following report of the committee on municipal laws was presented to that honorable your committee on municipal beg leave to report as In the matter of petition of J. F. et petition of E. B. Ashton et petition of A. J. Gray et and petition of Olga Keiser et protesting against the contemplated moving of the red light district to the west side of the we report that we find no authority in the law for the council nor for any official of the city to act favorably upon the matter of establishing such a district in any part of the Such a district as this is necessarily under the ban of the and to take any action in the establishment of such a district within the boundaries of the city would be clearly a-lawless and a breach of the oath of in any official undertaking to establish such district or connive at the establishment of the We also find that inasmuch as all of the business supposed to be transacted in such a district is entirely unlawful and that the cleaning out of any such portion of the city from lawless inhabitants of this kind is a commendable and lawful but further than neither the council any official of the city can We further recommend that the petitions shall be filed in accordance with the usual Respectfully T. R. J. J. H. f F. S. This report came before the city council and was unanimously the ayes and every member present voting in the thus placing itself upon record and establishing the so far as the council was that any attempt on of official to establish the part any such a district or connive at the establishment of the would make such official guilty of a breach of his oath of Another Kearns American Pledge the Kearns American club of Salt Lake City on September adopted the following resolution has come to the of the American club of Salt Lake City that a movement is on foot to establish a red light district between First and Second South streets and Fourth and Fifth West streets in this and that a company has been incorporated for the purpose of equipping and conducting the said contrary to the laws of the the ordinances of the and as an offense against public decency and civic be it that the American club act individually and collectively to prevent the consummation of such a that we use our best efforts to interrupt the work already that we attempt to fix responsibility on those whose purpose it is to establish so disreputable a business within the corporate limits of this and we pledge ourselves to aid in the punishment of all who persist in foisting this illicit enterprise on this community that we favor that immediate steps be taken towards dissolving the charter of the company to promote the so-called red light as we that the courts will that the purpose of the said company is solely to conduct an unlawful More Kearns American September the trustees of the American consisting of C. F. P. E. J. W. Gideon Dana T. H. H. Kinsman and John A. addressed a letter to Governor Cutler of this in which they respectfully requested that proceedings be brought to dissolve the corporation known as the Citizens Investment the ostensible object of which company was to lease or otherwise acquire property in Salt Lake City for illicit and illegal to wit For the and uses of letter the writers stated that's believed that Dora B. alias Belle moving spirit in the vestment should no 1 permitted to under the 5 of a that which i could not legally do as and that they that said Belle whose reputation as owner moter and proprietor of illicit illegal enterprises' of this ter was had the corporation for and that the writers i ther believed that the law not be used as a shied of tion for was' intended to prevent not promote In said communication lowing language was members of the American the American party are to the establishment of a red light and responsibility for the acts and all American party who may favor such a piL and to emphasize the fact any American party official favor such an doing it on his own and that if heis his official position to advance private ends and his personal that he is doing ami reprehensible to all decent Ml and obnoxious to the moral jj ment of his I And Still Another At the county convents j the American held ber the convention 1 of over five unanimously and dissenting adopted th form presented by the com on One of the p in that platform reads as foj unequivocally proposition to establish aj light district in any part Lake and expressly against the establishment a district on the west as now projected iJ holding authority from WM officials so to the best efforts of this VM prevent the location of as there We pledge the will mm Salt Lake that we the establishment of said to prosecute all par- Jj connected with said project the civil and criminal gits of this t fee Real and Pledge all of the above broken 1 Sedges and promises of the J gains the Tribune 1 J w comes out in gaily assurance St it can make the Gentiles be- m that it is Sheriff Sharp who pledge The stated that the stock-I not be Sheriff l rp showed them that it could Kearns Americans H to close it if their ticket was Bransford and the Eras American council was and they broke all their by reopening the Brans-K 5 white slave An Enormous of the Bransford-i London kind are a source enormous for per white slave renter has them at 5 a. m. every then pay two more dol- net lars per day to live in another stockade The stockade promoters get per day from each white slave before she makes a dollar for If Tribune or any other Kearns Americans desire to have the side slave all they will have to do is to furnish Sheriff Sharp the evidence or money to procure the evidence and he will close it up tight inside of two The Kearns Americans do not want it for it furnishes for graft and campaign and if they can only elect a coun- ty a sheriff and the county commissioners this they will open stockades in all parts of the V. 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