Show THE PARTY OF PRETENSE Salt Lake people must be Interested in that San Francisco dispatch printed In Iu The Republican Tuesday morning to tho the effect that Mayor Bransford has declared his intention to solve the social socIal social so so- cial evil e problem in his elt city He Ho e expects ex to learn something from the rulers rul rul- ers era of or the coast metropolis rind and may maj put lut the tile new flOW ideas into effect when he gets home Meantime the city government go of 01 his hone home city is licensing the bad ball women wo wo- men who maize malo up the element which Is puzzling the mayor The city Is permitting permitting per per- them to continue their bad ball bus bus- and Is taking a part of their villainous vii vil earnings with which to pay for forthe forthe forthe the education of children Part Pait of the tho money taken in license from the bad women pa pays s the city em em- Part of it hel helps s light the the city The reve revenue from that abhorred traffic traffic fic has been accepted and used b by the officials who pretend to represent the tl e epure pure in heart who live in Salt Lake Mayor Bransford has bas never lle yet ret been beell accused in this paper of 01 Insincerity But Dut he Is Q a very ineffective figure with the pe people p into whose hands bands h he has as resigned resigned resigned re re- re- re signed himself He and the party part for which he stands were put into office I on tho the pretense that they represented all that is 15 good in the city that they were the clean and approved people that they would not permit any vice or crime to flourish And hero bero th they are giving gi permission and protection to the very ery lowest and most vicious habitual offense within the knowledge of man mau And Antl are permitting those thoc practicing the offense to pa pay money for ity And they ther are arc using that money In financing the time city government It Is la a shame and a scandal But a greater scandal Is that the people who elected Mr Bransford and the American Ameri can party part officials are so grossly misrepresented misrepresented mis mise represented b by the time men they have ha placed In power The men and the women on whose support the American party flourished are good and true They arc are of loft lofty thought and aud clean motives mothes The They have high Ideals and clean lives And the men they confidently elected elect elect- ed are licensing bad women and taking tak take ing lag mone money from them It Ills Is so with the slot machines There Thero never nc has been a clearer case of at law violation in Ia the world than Is expressed in Iu the open op-en oper operation of ot slot machines There never has bas been a a. greater travesty tray trav t esty on Justice than that ruling mUng of an f American party jU Judge g to the effect that the he slot slat machine Is not a gambling I device And there has never neer been a amore more moro glaring Instance of bad faith than the tho present system of the American Amerlean Amer Amer- lean ican party p officials who license these I I same ame machines and permit them to toI continue their baleful operations opera I Surel Surely the good people In the American Amerlean Amer Amer- lean ican can party should see that their leadens leaders lead lead- ers ens are making wakIng It nothing more moro than thana a party of pretense Surely thc they I should not willingly permit that abasement abase ment of a splendid organization And the they cannot expect sincerity from men who license the social evil 6 and accept a part of or the Income from that business business busi busi- ness who license slot machines anti and permit them to continue preying on 1 the youth of ot the city and who while hUe still Insisting on superior virtue make e every supporter partner in both those black activities |