Ogden Daily Standard | 1908-11-04 | Page 4 | In Salt Lake City

V 1 I N CITY ulie the defeat of the american party la in salt lake city and county is ie ono one of the unexpected happenings of the campaign lany had hoped tor for the american partis Par tys defeat in the county but sew looked forward to a defeat so bo crushing in the city itself some of tb o strongest gentile wards ot of salt blako city returned republican blur all aam this indicates that tho the poopoo are growing weary of the senseless tirade of abuse and ancl slander gander which pours forth from the salt lake tribune dally and which to IB tending to brand the people of utah as degenerates and criminals without the aalt lake tribune thero there would be no american party as it Is IB now constituted and yet the tribune is IB one of the foulest vapors papers in the united states the noo noa cormons mormons of salt lake are beginning to recognize this fact and are drifting I 1 away from a cause which at first they b to be based on a purely po protest not against a religion but in opposition to ecclesiastical in I 1 politics but which they find has bravi bated into a black guarding campaign against mormonism the tribunes I 1 i i course smacks too much of an attempt I 1 on the part of kearns through his pa i f pers to buli bulldoze doze the head of the anfor mormon on church into making peace with iliam alm in hla his ambition to return to tho the united states senate thero are hundreds of good americans in salt lake city who have been deceived into bal laving the american party to bo founded upon r i a broad p principle on of equal rights who are discovering that they pre are being used as a bludgeon with which to hold up the church leaders and charce them into doing tho the very thing against which the american party so loudly proclaims