Show S Democratic Leaders Prefer Kearns Party Success N Nothing i is clearer than that the tho Democratic leaders prefer the success of the Kearns party to the success of the Republican party at al the election elec- elec dee dee- tiou tion in N November ember of this year r. Mr Morris orris orris who should he be the tile last man in town to hold to such an opinion is iS quoted without quoted without public denial from him himas as as openly ly stating stating- that if it conies comes to a choice between Plummer and Bransford he prefers the election of Bransford That fixes his status as in favor of continuing in power a party that is led by that has made a shocking bad record in its two years of municipal control and that is going going going go go- ing to give us another two years of precisely the same sume kind of medicine Ie if they are successful again Mr r. r Morris 1 turns his back on every man Ulan in his l party when he gives to the campaign of the tile American party The leaders of the Democratic party party Judge Judge Powers Mr 11 Snow Mr 1 Moyle 1 and the Herald Herald are 1 are commonly believed to be in favor of a continuance continuance continuance contin contin- of the American party control Soren X Christensen said a a. year ago that if the election could be he left to the Herald office ce it would 1 go American And Alid the makers of the Herald are in perfect sympathy with the other leaders All the cumulative evidence of incompetency and dishonesty which the pes present nt administration has revealed does not shake tb their ir friendship for the party of Kearns and the inner circle j I But there are fire some five thousand better hetter Democrats than they in Salt Lake who do not want the tile Reams Kearns party lirtY to again win an election These thousands know their party standing alone in the wards has no ghost of a show to take the council control away from the grafters They may be willing willing wining will win ing to fight for their general ticket and are not daunted by the clear proof that they But they tIler do know that in the wards they call elect a control of the council through fusion with the Republicans On local questions no fight with the Republicans Both are working for the good goodof of the city Both are opposed to the ruinous dominance of the Kearns party They repudiate the action of their party part leaders They may be dragooned dragooned dra dra- goofed into silence in some of the war wards s but their silent protest will be made effectively on election day They will support the fusion candi candidates ates in spite of the ravings of their Kearns contaminated leaders They are arc honest and independent They have been betrayed by the men they have trusted and they y will exercise their untrammelled franchise when whon they get to the polls a If f the Democrats were the stronger party and it came calne to a question between them and tl the e Kearns crowd the Republicans would cheerfully throw their strength to the Democratic ticket Anything in reason L would be preferable to the tho rule nIle of the intolerant and grafting gang now crushing the city with its high taxes tuxes its dissipated funds and its friendship f for r the protected police-protected bunko game But the thc Republican party by the election of last year is certainly stronger than thaIl is the Democratic party and the tIle Democrats who are not tainted with the nitrate of Silver Sih-er King will vill prefer Republican victory to the further rule of the piratical party of peculation dominated by Kearns and secretly secretly secret- secret ly lr f favored fry Jy y Powers and aud Morris orris and their fellow leaders lenders L t |