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Show ? s f i THE CITIZEN that they seldom dare to take action against anybody. Once in a while they find a victim who has not paid for protection and they stage a raid, but they are so bound down by bribery and graft that 5 Joe Dinkenspeil, Jake Raleigh or Ed Barry, who make collections all through the underworld. It is said that it takes a thief to catch a thief.,, which simply means that a police officer must be as wise as a serpent. It does not mean that a police officer must be either a thief or a grafter, but the Salt Lake police force has thieves and grafters as well as These men have made it imefficient and upright members. possible to enforce the laws against gamblers, bootleggers and bunko Then it transpired that he was talking, not about the national committee's fund, but the combined national committee and state funds. The public should get clearly in their minds just what this means. In other campaigns no one ever inquired whether the Democrats were spending large sums in the states. If their campaign fund was $2,000,000 for the national contest the public was willing to assume that that was the cost of the election. As a matter of fact the Democrats spent several millions more through state, county and city channels. This year the Republicans decided to help the states and, in addition to the $3,000,000 national fund to raise $1,000,000 to assist the men. states. they cannot interfere with the Bernsteins, the gambling kings, or with t, ; l i i - i il ' I I i : ' . ' i t The facts were presented to the senate committee and the entire structure of the Cox charges collapsed. Chairman Hays showed that something more than a million all told had been collected and that on August 26 there was a deficit in the treasury. But Cox continued to howl. He had in his possession a quota list and he referred to it as if it were a sacred covenant. But it transpired from the testimony of Mr. Upham that it was not the quota sheet of the Republican national committee. It is difficult, in the absence of evidence, to say what was its source. No doubt Mr. Cox accepted it in good faith, but, as Mr. Upham remarked as soon as the nominee first alluded to the sheet, someone probably is playing a joke on him. In addition to the national fund there is to be a senatorial and a congressional fund, but all told the Republican finances will not exceed $5,000,000, which, in these times of high cost and the Mr. Hays has dollar, does not suggest buying the presidency. shown that the average contribution is $93. In addition to hiring Hall, the predatory professor, for $10,000, the Democrats planned to spend something like $250,000 for advertisements in foreign language newspapers alone, whereas the Republican national committee had no budget for that purpose. Mr. Upham thought that perhaps $40,000 might be found later to compete with the Democrats in that field of propaganda. The Democrats are seeking to create the impression that their plans did not contemplate a fund comparable in magnitude to the Republican fund. This idea is apt to be generally accepted, but it may be far from the truth. Only when, the Democratic national committee has laid its cards on the table can we be sure. When the Democrats are able to pay $10,000 to an obscure bureau head for a few months work the suspicion arises that they must have unlimited funds or unlimited means of obtaining funds. We must not forget that the Democrats have a federal list of 700,000 employes from which to draw the sinews of their campaign. Chairman Hays revealed the fact that in some instances the Democrats had drawn drafts on banks in which federal reserve funds had been deposited. This is an indication of the measures that can be, and have been, used by the Democrats to oil their campaign machinery. The impression on the public mind is problematical. We are YELLOW JOURNAL CANDIDATE of the opinion that it is beginning to appear to the average man that Nominee Cox has simply raised a hue and cry for the purIn the old days James Cox was known as a yellow journalist who pose of deceiving the illiterate and credulous. reveled in sensationalism and denunciation. The pages of his paper fairly screamed with the language of invective. He has carried into HOW THEY HIRED A HALL the presidential his youth. campaign the piratical predelictions of The Democratic candidate goes ramping and champing and On with the charges, Mr. Cox, but ponder once in a while on foaming and cursing about the country making charges which he the now famous Professor John O. Hall, formerly of Willamette has utterly failed to substantiate. His falsifications have found him university, who was, until a few days ago, head of the Scandinavian out and rather than confess his defeat he increases the din of his Bureau of the Democratic party, with headquarters at the Murray denunciation. At first he intimated something like a hundred milMill hotel, New York City. lions. Then his This brilliant educator offered his services to both parties. In running mate, in the role of leading juvenile, mimiccd, him but was unable to pump enough gas into his imagination balloon to a letter to Senator New he said that the Democrats had offered him s,0ar above fifty millions. Then Candidate Cox dropped to thirty $7,500 and expenses and were willing to give him $10,000 for cammillions, then to fifteen millions. And then he produced his proofs paign work on behalf of the Democratic ticket. Did you bite? Senator Pomcrene asked Mr. Upham at the sen"Simply a quota list or prospectus to stir enthusiasm of workers and he contented himself with saying that the slush fund was about ate investigation. cight millions but that he was He is now head of the No, but you did, replied Mr. Upham. justified in multiplying by two. It makes no difference whether a dreamer multiplies by two or a hun-rc- d, Scandinavian bureau of the Democratic national committee. the result is the same-dre- ams. Being a genius, equally versed in Republican and Democratic Bunko men, grafters and criminals all of national reputation walk our streets unmolested and even protected. Once in a while a chief of detectives is driven to the excuse that he cannot arrest men who have committed no crime and cannot even tell them to get out of town. A real police officer knows how to rid a city of such despoilers, because their faces are in the rogues galleries of every large city and because they cannot come back at the police they are given so many hours to get out of town. They get out and come to Salt Lake City, where they are protected. Sometimes the bunko men kill each other in disputes over the division of funds, and that, seemingly, is the only way Salt Lake can he rid of them. It is absurd to plead that the police must treat these criminals with gloves, patiently waiting until they have fleeced victims or robbed safes. Whenever our police authorities decide to get rid of the nationally-know- n criminals they can clear the city of them in forty-eighours. Of course, Commissioner Barnes does not know all this. He is a mere tyro at police work. When he took office he was betrayed into an utterance which put a grin as big as the impish grin of a gargoyle on the face of every denizen of the underworld of vice and crime. He said missing his words somewhat that the police force seemed tp be operating satisfactorily. Indeed it was, from the viewpoint of the vicious and the criminal. But from the standpoint of law and order and decency the police department had collapsed and was, as it is today, a wreck, reeking with corruption. Only by a complete reorganization of the police department and in particular a reorganization of the detective department and the e squad can Commissioner Barnes hope to obtain law enforcement. Until he accomplishes that difficult and perhaps even dangerous task the king gamblers will continue to operate in some of our best business blocks on Main street, the bootleggers to conduct whiskey and beer saloons and the soft drink parlors to sell alcoholic drinks made from extracts manufactured by firms in partnership with the state administration. i u . I I I 40-ce- nt ht j ' t anti-vic- r j i i j i j i I i 1 i |