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Show VoL 3 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, NOVEMBER 5, 1910 DRAG GAME PLAYED BY DEMOCRATS By Crowding an Apostle to tAc Front, and Concentrating 1 all Political Power No. 3 I FEDERAL BUNCH HANDLES THE WHISKEY BOODLE - in Him They Turn the Trick MOYLE GETS UNDER HYDE OF BUNCH Red Organ Fean Truth and Stoop s to Contemptible Methods to Put Democrats in False Light Before the Public. Slimy Trail of the Liquor Deal Traced Directly to H. E, Booth, Trustee $60,000 to Corrupt Voters and Defeat Legislation Black Page in Utah9s History Torn Open for Inspection Concealment No Longer Possible . It la characteristic of the to deliberately misquote and maliciously assail a man and then refuse to print a perfectly respectful correction over his own signature. Day after day the hybred organ has slandered Hon. James H. Moyle and Hon. B. H. Roberts day after day for a week a letter has been taken to its editorial rooms, by well known and There have been auertioni and accusations of bargains and deals with party leaders. These charges have been made by the reputable men who were willing to act as messengers, but of course it opposing political leaders and otbeirs with great freedom of utterance. And right here I say that every assertion and accusation, and failed to print the truth. the whole volume of them, cbargiiig such bargains and deals on the part ot the Republican party of its leaders,' is as basely false as A newspaper so mendacious that language can express it, no matter who the accuser is, or what his creed or politics. I trust that my language is pit in and simple enough, even Senator Smoot declines to stand Senator Reed sponsor for its editorials would natand my statement sufficiently broad to cover the whole matter,' that it may be clearly and definitely understood. urally be too cowardly to print a 1910. Smoot in the Republican State Convention in Ogden, September 26, arena; communication from a man it has atpIF the Democrats were to force tacked without reason. t Apostle Ivins into the United States HIRAM E. BOOTH; Here is Mr. Moyles letter and any Senate; seem to to so of are a one Where it who has seen the extravagant leads The The Deal of trail may many wrong you ypu. great guilty directly np Whiskey slimy IF the Democrats were to place of the Republican must misrepresentations for this share of full shoulder the unfair be to come out time to but the has responsibility specific you your dirty single' any one, Apostle Ivins at the head of their will at once conclude that the organ piece of work. The cases of ottos will be considered later. party organisation in the state; letter is so clean, so moderate, so IF the Democrats were to place the Ton are United States District Attorney for Utah, and as such it is your sworn duty to see that the federal laws are enforced and straightforward that the distribution of federal and other pa- to see that violators of the federal laws are was really afraid to let it punished. Tampering with the liquor laws of the nation comes dire tly under your juristronage in the hands of Apostle Ivins; diction. be read beside its other matter. I IF the Democrats were to furnish The letter follows: Ton are also a member of the organisation in politics that has come to be known as The Federal Bund , and as such you are Apostle Ivins with a newspaper Lake City, Utah, Oct 27. 1910. "Salt workings of the Republican 'party organisation. Ton know, too, that Benatoi Reed Smoot, Senator Editor through which he could bulldose, vili- at all times familiar with the Trusting that, as a public newsfy and belie those In his own party George Sutherland, Congressman Joseph Howell, Governor William Spry, Internal Revenue Collector E. H. Culister, United States paper, you have a sense of fairness, I or elsewhere who were not prompt to Marshal Junes H. Anderson, and knowlC. similar have Chairman E. State and Committeeman National Looije Republican Republican make this personal appeal to you to bow to his mandates; would not be possible for you to play ax. essential part in The Whiskey Deal without the other men named correct some of the errors which have with It edge yourself. IF the Democrats were to Induce appeared in very recent issues of your above knowing the facts. What was done was a party measure. publication. high churchmen to announce officially In the first place, there is absoTon were also, two years ago, when The Whiskey Deal was consummated, president of the company that published the Inter-Mountathat an attack upon Apostle Ivins as lutely no disposition on the part of a politician was equivalent to an atRepublican, the official organ of the Republican party in Utah, and you are now connected officially with the company that any Democrat with whom I have contack on the Mormon church; Because of these Intimate relations of yours you know that no large sum of money could be paid versed or corresponded, to vote the publishes the Herald-Republica-n. American ticket this fall. There has IF the Democrats were to put Apos into the Republican company without your knowledge and consent Ton know, toe. that the other men not been such hope or activity in the treasury of the .tie Ivini forward to preside over their Republican at the time The Whukey Deal was con- Democratic ranks for many years. We state convention; to deliver the key- named above were connected officially or as stockholders with flu feel confident of carrying the state, summated. note speech; to dictate the platform; and win in Salt Lake County, if those d Democratic voters who have been to outline the plan of .campaign; urged to vote the local Republican IF the Democrats were to force HIRAM E. BOOTH; ticket Just this time, during the last - Apostle Ivins to taka a Jianfl in . the were several campaigns, will come back and United State District Attcmqr; while to deny that. while yqu were serving your government Are you prepared local city elections when no general support their own party Just this one serving the Republican party as one of the inner circle of ThefFederal Bunch; while serving the organ of thiTSepublicaU patty as time.' political issue was at stake; for the disbursement of a large sum of Being without a party organ and were to muzzle the president of its publishing company, that you did not also act as H. E. Booth, Trustee, .. IF the Democrats the columns of the Deseret having politically eleven of the Mormon apos- money collected from the brewers and liquor dealers of Utah sr the use of the Republican party in the campaign of 1908? News closed to all parties for the tles and authorise Apostle Ivins to do first time, has been a handicap such Are you prepared to deny that $60,000 was collected from the brewers and the liquor dealers for this purpose? as you will best appreciate. And this all the open political work for the enAssoas Protective to H. was over sum of E. to the turned this that Are you prepared Booth, Trustee, fyr money you deny fact causes me to address this comtire quorum; munication to you. I IF a coterie of Democratic polltl-clan- a ciation, the organisation of the liquor dealers? In the second place, the letter from over so so was to of the the Hon. B. H. Roberts, to you used raised and were to make a deal with the Axe you prepared to deny that part of this money policy shape which appeared paid combined whisky interests of the first in The Provo Herald of Saturj Republican on the liquor issue? day, October 22, 1910, has been erState and back Apostle Ivins with the Are you prepared to deny that part of this money so raised and so turned over to you was used to debauch voters in the roneously credited to the Salt of that element; united support of October 23, 1910, the day j THEN the Democrats of Utah could election of a Republican governor and a Republican legislature? its appearanve in the Provo following Are you prepared to deny that in the summer and fall of 1908 a certain sum was assessed against the different brewers and paper. be charged with dragging the church The correspondence between Mr, into politics. Apostle Anthony W. liquor dealers; that some paid as high as $3,000, $4,000 and $5,000 each for protection at the hands of the Republican party and for Roberts in reference t& and Ivins is a good and able man; he has the defeat of temperance legislation; that the total amount was $60,000; that this amount passed through the nands of the Balt Lake his challenge tomyself Senator Smoot for a to hold all the qualifications requisite Joint discussion, was given to you at Brewing Company; and that the total sum was turned over to you as H. E. Booth, Trustee? the same time it was given to the any political office in the gift of the Inter-MountaAre of the you prepared other newspapers. In fairness you Part of this corruption fpnd found its way into the treasury Republican company. people of Utah; he has a perfect legal will acknowledge this. good the pretense that it was in payment for capital stock in the company? Are you prepared to deny that the receipt of right, a right that no man dare ques- to As to the Salt Lake Tribune, I will Inter-MountaRepublican on the liquor issue? Are you prepared to say that merely say that all Democrats regard tion, to take any proper political ac- this money was the real reason for the reverse of the tion and to aspire to and bold any this is not the reason why your paper has ever since been the open advocate of the liquor interests and the Mfter foe of temperance? it as a Republican paper the organ of the insurgent wing of the Republipolitical office. It is well understood, can party. And if the insurgents captoo, that Apoate Ivins is a thorough mwAM e. BOOTH: ture the next congress, as it ia pretty was Bunch this fund collected Federal that member The of as at knows, You know, corruption every any j1 Democrats on principle, ready generally conceded they will, they will unquestionably control the next time to give a reason for the faith purpose of defeating all temperance legislation two years ago. You know that the Republican party was the Republican national convention. In that is in him. associates in and the was Federal Bunch, end. Ton know that the Republican party bound, through you your that event the Salt Lake Tribune will is not Apostle Anthony Why, theq, be the official organ of the national You know that af a meeting between Fred J. Keitel, head of the interests. the into with entered lwqwt liquor W. Ivins the leader of the Democratic Republican party in Utah, and those in authority in the dominant church, this Whiskey Deal was ratified. You know connected with that paper malm no party in Utah,- as a Republican and one of the men high secret of its hopes and purposes in to forcecl was Bunch le Federal of The influence under tb member last of the oppose of temperance lg leader the legislature 'kpos ' party in Utah? Is it because the this was the reason Governor William Spry killed the onlyjtemperance measure tEA'reached MmT Democrats are determined to drag the Ton know that The Whiskey Deal is still in force, you know the interest the National Liquor Dealers Association and the Republican church into politics T National Brewers Association have in this matter in Utah, you know of the work that is now going on to debauch the voters of this ocrat is Just as anxious to rest If Apostle Ivins were determined to taxpayers of the city and county from 1 once again. satisfy, his personal ambition, even community the Americans as from the Republicans, in the interest of what we beif by doing so he must throw discord HIRAM E. BOOTH: ; lieve to be economy and good govinto his state, his church and his analysis: Dare you tell the men and women of this community of your true- relations with the ernment coming down to the party; if he were determined to ig--' you will be fair enough in relation to the find collected from the to Trusting make Dare Association? public your record as H. E. Booth, Trustee, you nore the proprieties and utilise his Protective place me on record with this letchurch office in order to secure poli- brewers and liquor dealers? Dare you publish a report of that trust fund? Dare you have the matter sifted to the bottom in the ter, and to give it as much prominence as the matters complained of have octical power; if he were determined courts? ' cupied, I remain, very respectfully to use his political power to strength- ust fund? Dare JAMES H. MOYLE. (Signed.) tell what you did with the $60,000 or anypart of it turned over to you as H. E. Booth, Trustee, by the liqu you en himself In his church and in bust ? it Every communication to me public Daze you have the matter sifted to the bottom infhe courts? ness if he were determined to do all or men of Utah? n has been given to the these things it would be perfectly as a matter of news at the same We call attention to the fact that the Republican leaders, while soliciting ecclesiastical support, havt i(t the same time entered time it was given to other newsnatural for Apostle Ivins to set himzIHzwm self up as the dictator in his party. with the liquor element to prevent or postpone the enactment of prohibitory laws, thus demonstrating to the world papers. an into There are three reasons why this fliat there is no institution or organisation so sacred or exalted they would not attempt to debauch, and none so low they would not How. does the will not be done, and any one of the to print Mr. Moyle's letter aprefusal ends. Democratic to their in State Platform at and uphold order Provo, September accomplish adopted partisan three is sufficient In thelfrst place, zealously approve to lovers of fair play? pear 1910: although Apostle Ivins has every po- 15, But what can be expected of such a litical right possessed by every other As the Deseret News said paper. honcommon church of which he is a member to crats should observe the rules of No, the Democrats cannot in of the country; although he his church leadership. They know that the on the 15th of February, editorially semeans to with or a to such come be resort divide and forward with the esty disposition charged desperate has a perfect legal right to aspire to this would not only fond to last the year, Republican organ Is in state on religious lines, cure political power; they have too an attempt to drag the church Into clean oinds. the any political office high or low, and voters of the of the liquor interests,' employ iff jito a at all have in fault drag politics. If they propriety would at the same time tend to high a sense although he has the ability to fill with but it and is paid for. too connection is into much 18 or this seal VHE in EASY. its church AN8WER it church the the either of apostles honnr any office in his state, his sense divide the membership As Hyrum M. Smith said In the' Voter: Are you sick and tired Two apostles of the bitter partisan conflicts. But above trying to drag the church out of poliof propriety will never permit him to on political' lines. Salt Lake theatre on the 24th of Febexhow Ameritics. of Federal Bunch and the all Democrats realise the else. enter the political areana as an as- unn phurch leading opposite politithe Republican organ falsiAn apology is due to Apostle An- can Bunch? If so kick them both ruary, office so long as he cal parties Just think of ltl One tremely difficult it would be for them for fies. high But now it is trying to put pirant con-even for ' thony W. Ivins the church all one way to uphold that provision of the dragging his into oblivion by voting the straight hold- - a high ecclessiaatical position apostle pulling one else, so far as its inevery two apostles pull- stltutlon of Utah which says There name into such a discussion as this. Democratic ticket fluence extends. In the same boat with-i- t and is looked upon as a spiritual lead- is bad enough; but is not to be hall be no union of Church and It is certain to be most distasteful to directions in opposite ing and to make them all false to their er in his church. of of At leader church who honors the last close united pow- any spiritual his the session. church leaders State if they high and. to themselves. In the next place the men in high thought of. Wise pledges er and high political power in any calling. The only excuse that can be the legislature Governor Spry in voting would never fall into such an error. authority in the church of which They realise that it offered is that this name is used by a temperance bill said the people had Then finally the Democrats of Utah one person. memApostle Ivins is a distinguished laws enough on the subject Then why for the high would be difficult to convince honest way of illustration. ted much Republicans up in Ogden are already respect have to consent their never give ber would man In the or the Joker" liquor plank adopted at singing "Has Anyone Here Seen if event, men of who Ivins their any pursued party they sincerity ecclesiastical position Apostle his assuming leadership nf,arpolitlcal charges church Influence to Demo Ogden? they have too much respect for such a course. party, while at the same time retaining Republicans are Just now wrought up to a high pitch of grief and Indignation over what they charge to be attempts to drag the church into politics. They charge the Democrats with putting forth the "Words of Wisdom leaflet and are not fair enough to admit their error and. exonerate the Democrats even when the author of the leaflet a Republican, assumes full credit for its authorship and explains openly why he put it forth. But, speaking about dragging the church into politics, if the Democrats of Utah were to force Apostle Anthony W. Ivins into the political ' Herald-Republic- an - Herald-Republica- Herald-Republica- n n: in Inter-Mounta- in Inter-Mountai- .' u Inter-Mounta- rat in Lake-Tribun- in in ' . - H y 7 J Herald-Republica- Herald-Republican- 's e |