Show il AX AN J- J ENEMY I IY BE FAIR I IB EVEN B WITH i. i i I Wo ro dont don't a at at all approve o that sentiment of or the Herald expressed in the following lines the most preposterous political suggestion that About heard in months is the tho Intimation from fron eminently emi t has been that Sheets and Mulvey ey Americans neatly respectable f aro are too much of a burden for the tho party parlY to carT carry and r c ought lo to be repudiated for fur the good of or the he organization I Why Sheets been the Idol of the party from flOm Its Ils in- in r 7 DIdn't he and Mulvey lul round up UI the Commercial street t t Americans c si oIl on election day Weren't Verent thc they rea really the strongest Thompson had In his canvass for tor mayor Haven't the American newspapers insisted that Sheets was the victim of a a. dire conspiracy the thc altar of or Patriotism ous ow sacrifice laid on the the meanness of the men who vho would even Imagine after aCter all the they have think of retiring Sheets and Mulvey e done to redeem Salt Lake from vice and make It a shining the of white snow example of or municipal Purity paragon Innocence In a world of ot wicked cities It is not nol at atall all a n preposterous suggestion for the AmerIcan American Amer Arner- ican party part to discard Sheets and Mulvey l because the only 7 men actually necessary to the tho American party are not of or orF F tho the Sheets and Mulvey Mulvoy kind They are decent people honorable men and women d desirous sirous above all things for forthe the good of ot tho state Maybe thc they are mistaken in their ideas Ideas of the manner In which the tho best of service can be bet t rendered but they certainly are sincere and they are areo o ch clean n There Thore is only one clement really necessary in the American party parl That is the clement element composed of or the themen men nen who believed the stories that were vere told the promises promIses prom prom- J that were made mallet the pledges that were ere recorded the slanders that were printed Because of their honesty they followed the lead of ot men who promised ever everything When those honest and sincere men and women leave the American J party there will be nothing of it So long as the they remain in it IN SUFFICIENT NUMBERS TO CO CONtrol CON CON- irol there will be an American part party r. r It ma may not again J win In to o the con control r l of ot the offices but the organization will j 4 stand tand i. i nd And nd only ono one thing thins can kill the party the party the abandonment aban aban- of It by these same honest and sincere men and w won women en The They do not riot stand f fr Or r Chief Sheets and never have havo since tho the facts In the McWhirter lc robbe robbery y case were given to lo tho the public by all ll the morning pa papers rs with the exception of or the Tribune on October 2 2 1906 The Tribune which had lad the whole story from the hour of the robbery suppressed the news and then took look the idiotic turn that there was nothing in It Il but church persecution per of a chief t. t of poll police lollee e who had done much to redeem the city cily from priestly rule rule and and all aU that sort of thing A few misguided misguided mis mis- fe t. guided still hold to that as the best course to follow The good men and good women In iii tho the American American party p f tk t are honest Th They y may bo be biased but they are rational J i Th They 7 did not nol approve the action of the Tribune in suppressing suppressing suppressing sup sup- pressing news newt of the robbery robber r. r and certainly were incensed 1 when they saw tho the Tribune commUting their to 1 L. L party a support of the compromised chief They saw in a moment l th that t if tr Sheets had hall sense enough to get in out of the rain T no he fiC had been dishonest in his han handling lins of or the McWhirter I i case And they saw that t If no ilo had not enough sense fo o to ni nip that game same to capture the robbers to return their L 44 c mone money to the tourists he had not sense enough to be chief chic 1 of or police And with either horn born of or tho the dilemma they I 3 knew their party parl leaders were wrong f Of Ot course they want George Sheets to resign to get i 1 i iV I. I out to relieve the party part of ot tho the embarrassment of or his pres- pres V c r. v CC It is reasonable they should They arc not partners with robbers robben They raey are aro not candidates for the insane P J asylum And a man has to be one or the other oilier to stand A j for COI- George Sheets and the Tribune in tho the McWhirter deal I I tv Bo lie fair fah even to an enemy Th Tho only NECESSARY l l In ti the American party has been opposed to Sheets from the beginning And it Is no more than fair fall and right r that they should want to discard him nim lm And Anti as for the fat man of or the tho council Mr Ir Mulvey will wIH have to push that paunch of his out of ot the American or ol party or kill it One of or the tho two |