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Show TRUTH he claims membership in, because of lecturing Bishop Iverson. The bishop was being groomed for the Council-mani- c race on the Democratic ticket The Democratic Womans club has and to the surprise of many of his The United Brotherhood of Railway met and resoluted. The ladies are friends, his name was presented to the Employees is the first organization to angry that they have been ignored in First precinct Republican convention get into the arena in the present cam- the nominations for city officials. They for nomination. Jimmie was among Democratic suppaign. need not be. The failure to place any the of the bishop, and when he reporters women on the Democratic ticket saves covered the use of his tongue, asked If the Herald can be relied upon, this the ladies from the sting of defeat, the churchman for an explanation. No and the men will have to bear it alone. one has known my politics, answered organization has declared against Maybishop; but if I were going to run or Thompson because he failed to ap- For that they should be thankful, not the resentful. The ladies passed resolutions for Councilman guess Id rather be point Charles A. Creamer to a posidemanding that at the next county nominated on the Republican ticket. tion on the police force. Mr. Creamer election they be given the positions of It is said that Jimmie made the bishops hair kink when he told him his Auditor, one County Commissupported Mayor Thompson to the best County sioner election in State and the opinion of a bishop dabbling in poliof his ability two years ago, and will of the members of the Legisla- tics. support him again in the present cam- ture. paign. Mr. Creamer also says that the There are a good many people willMayor treated him with perfect fairThe Elchnor Dennis selections of and ing to believe that if Mayor. Thompness, and that he has no complaint secC. whatever. This, however, cuts no fig- F. Loofbourow as chairman and son is Detective Sheets will ure with the United Brotherhood of retary of the Republican city commitChief Hilton at the head of Railway Employees. The organization tee to manage the campaign are very displace Police the department. Certain it is appears to be out after the Mayors is getting mighty close to that George sea ip, and it proposes to take up Mr. good. Dennis has had lots of experithe executive. success in managing Creamers case whether he wants it ence and much taken up or not. Mr. Creamer, of campaigns, and the Indications point course, ought to know whether he has strongly to another successful contest. a grievance or not, and he says that Loofbourow will make a good secreAn attempt to rush Clarence McCor-nlc- k he has none. tary. as a candidate for the City Council, In order to bleed him for the necesJohn R. Foulks has consented to take sary funds to run the campaign In the But the organization in question ap- the management of the Democratic Third precinct, proved an absolute failpears to know better. It has apparentcampaign, after it was refused by ure. It was considered that it would ly taken the ground that if Mr. Crea- Judge Powers, W. H. Dale, D. C. Dun- take about $2000 to wrest the Third mer has no grievance, he ought to have bar, E. W. Wilson and goodness knows from the Democrats, and It was hoped one, and it proposes to fight Mayor how many more. Mr. Foulks is as that Clarence would feel so overof a stranger in Salt Lake as the whelmed by the honor that he would Thompson for him, whether he desires much dig up the amount, but he didnt bite candidate for Mayor. Democratic it or not. It is now in order for the at all. Democratic members of all other organizations in the city to declare Some of the wise fellows are willing Viking League Lawson got on the Reagainst Mayor Thompson and the Republican members to resolve against to wager that Buckle and those who publican city committee again after all. Mr. Learr, and when the election follow his dictation will not vote for How did he do It? Well, listen. He comes each set of partisans will vote and the Republican nomi- personally Interviewed every delegate for their party nominee, and the only Thompson but they will. from the First precinct and poured a result of the resolutions will be the nees, bitterness that will be left behind and tale into their ears of how the persecutor was being persecuted. I can't rethe attendant harm that will come to as been the stated has tire under fire, he would declare, but opinthe various organizations that traffic It freely in such dishonesty. Arplease let me serve on the campaign ion of the politicians that Senator committee again. This will be my last thur Brown lost a great deal of pres- request. The trick worked all tige by his conduct at the Republican as was seen when the delegates right, conOn what . the Democrats base their convention. fessed that out of charitable consideration for Lawson they would yield to hopes of electing the" ticket is a myshis entreaties, while doubting the wisno to have tery. They organization are dom of the choice from a standpoint of Third precinct Republicans speak of, they have no record to point George A. Smith for not probable benefit to the party. to with pride, and although there are "cussing working for the renpmina- a few strong men on the ticket, as a strenuously tion of Mayor Thompson. Some of the whole It is weak. They probably will The youngsters in the First put have gone so far as to predict elect a few Councilmen, but the chances kickers the handsome man would incur George Wilson In as the precincts other of their electing any of the city officials that will of Senator Kearns and spoil committeeman, succeeding Sam Wester- ill the with the exception of Morris Sommer his chances of reappointment as Re- field, who is now amusing the boys by is very remote. ceiver of the Land Office if he didnt telling how nice It is to be honorably change tack. released from an onerous task. In tbe Political republican ticket. Ezra Thompson For Mayor R B. "Whittemore Treasurer A. S. Reiser O. Nystrom Joseph pof Auditor For Recorder For Attorney For Judge For Judge . . . George L. Nye John Doe Richard' Roe First Precinct J. J. Councilmen, Arthur Robln- P. J. Hewlett, Thomas, SSecond Precinct W. E.- Vigus, Charles Cottrell, Jr., E. J. Eardley. Third Precinct J. E. Openshaw, Richard Papworth, D. L. Davis. Fourth Precinct W. R. Hutchinson, John N. Sharp, Jr., W. C. Spence. Fifth Precinct J. S. Daveler, A. A. - Robertson, A. J. Davis. DEMOCRATIC TICKET J. C. Leary For Mayor R. P. Morris For Treasurer .D. A. Swan For Auditor E. L. Sloan For Recorder B. F. Stephens For Attorney Richard Doe For Judge John Roe For Judge Councilmen, First Precinct George T. Brice, C. E. Street, William Naylor. Second Precinct T. C. Lewis, N. 1. Glenn, Rodney C. Badger. Third Precinct F. S. Fernstrom, Henry Arnold, E. H. Davis. Fourth Precinct E. G. Hartenstein, W. J. Tuddenham, Frank R. Snow. Fifth Precinct T. A. Williams, M. B. Sowles, Ira H. Lewis. bar generally are with the nomidissasisfied much very nations for City Judges on both tickets. So strong was the disapproval that there was considerable talk of putting up an Independent judicial ticket, but it is not likely that it will crystalize into form. The members of the conventions are committed to the candidates who have been selected, and what little ethics there are in politics prevents them from abjuring their allegiance after pledging it. There is little choice between the tickets. It required extreme gall for four young men who have never had a case in a higher tribunal than a justices court and who know nothing of the rules of practice, and The members of ithe whose acquaintance with the funda- mental principles of the law are very circumstrlbed, to aspire to the positions to which they have been nominated. Comment on the convention which selected them from among many candidates of ability and experience, such as Alex McMaster, A. N. Cherry, Judges Ritchie, Higgins, Bowman, 'Lewis and others, is unnecessary. It speaks loudly for itself and goes to show that some other method should be devised for the selection of judicial candidates than by nomination by a convention, the members of Vhich have no conception of the qualifications which go to make a Judge. Of the four nominees Sommer probably stands the best show of election, from the fact that he has laid his wires better than any of the others. He has been working for the place for months, and has agents in every dise trict working and racket for months. It matters very little, however, which two Of the four are chosen. anti-poli- anti-Luk- Of all the parent ce disgusting rot and trans- political clap-tra- p which is palmed off on the public during a political campaign, the resolution business is the most nauseating. But it is always with us. The partisans of one organization will get together one evening and declare against the candidate on the other side, and the next evening the remainder of the bunch will meet on the quiet and resolve against the candidate of the other fellows. What absolute dishonesty it is, and why men who claim to be reputable win take part In it is a mystery. 9 Aim dominated by a lot of what can you expect? ward-heeler- s, dumb-found- ed one-thi- rd re-elec- ted Some of Mayor Thompsons closest friends declare that his honor would have ordered the closing of the saloons Sundays last summer had he not been convinced by friends that he ought not to yield. It was Detective Sheets, John C. Lynch and Jacob Moritz who overpersuaded the Mayor. If there is an absolutely honest Democrat or Republican of average intelligence in Salt Lake who will say that the judicial tickets placed in nomination by the two parties is not a disgrace to both, Truth would like to see him. So far as the honesty of the four candidates in question is concerned, this paper, has nothing to say, for the nominees $re young men of average intelligence and good reputation. Intelligence and reputation, however, do not in themselves fit a man for the responsible position to which these men aspire, and each and all should be defeated at the polls. The entire quar- Since Benner X. Smith has been assured there are good chances of his municipal court bill being knocked galley-west, he Is taking a more hopeful view of the situation of two lightweights prospectively attempting to hold down the exalted office. In other States a very similar law has been declared unconstitutional, lawyers say, from the fact that Justices of the Peace occupy a unique position, and their jurisdiction cannot be curtailed by legislative enactment, after once fixed by custom and the Constitution. Thus it may be that neither Justice Diehl, Tanner, Sommer nor Thomas will draw pay from the city at $2500 a cases and year for passing on bad-deMr. On the arrests. other hand, police Shepard declares the next Legislature will repeal the law creating the new judicial positions which, after all, will be only petty justices courts, which will draw very little business from the District court. Just why Chairman Elchnor will not consent to Mr. Lawson and Mr. Wilson going among the business men to solicit campaign funds is a dead secret. W. E. Vigus, one of the Republican nominees for Councilman from the Second precinct, is a recent convert to Republicanism. Until last year he was classed as a Democrat, but for all that Mr. Vigus is as well qualified, probably, as any other man on his or the opposition ticket. An ardent desire to ride in the Kearns procession prompted him to make the Councilmanlc race. bt Sam Galeazzl says he nominated Clarence McCornlck for one of the Republican Councilmen from the Third precinct just to put the family on record. By that Sam means that he wished to find out whether the Macs would stand for his work, which he thinks is a mighty swift worth something for the time taken, but Foulks landed in the honored one would have none of it, the Democratic and now his name does not appear on as soon as he the ticket. tette, or rather the combined legal Mr. Mulvey made knowledge and judicial experience of with this extraordinary four, Toughy move to have John R. thrown in for good measure, would not the chairmanship of make one man thoroughly competent campaign committee for the position. It is extremely probheard the gentleman is a Sunday-schowill four two the of that able, though, man and reformer. be elected, and it doesnt make much difference which two it is. The best that the public can get is the worst al-of is to blame for it,. and the public Jimmie Lynch is very apt to lose his to be nominated. But men such lowing as long as the two political parties are standing in church whatever church ol Judge Cherry would probably have been nominated for one of the City Justices at the Democratic convention had it not been for the efforts of Attorney |