Show s w 1 Stockade Fires Opening Gun of Campaign to Re-elect Re Bransford i ITH the tho filing of a suit for libel against The W Republican Herald by the tho proprietress of the Plumas the lodging house in which Mayor Maor Bransford Brailsford was interested and aud which ran openly in iii close proximity to the tho stockade until exposed by hy byThe byThe The rhe Republican Herald the tho stockade interests may maybe mayhe be he sai said to have has begun their fight Light for tho the re-election re of the only man mem in Salt Lake upon whom it can call depend John S. S Bransford The Plumas which was thus named in honor of Plumas county count Cal California fornia of which Bransford was once sheriff is rather a ticklish matter with His Honor inasmuch as he lie is unable to disavow any responsibility lity for it i The rhe Republican Herald predicted when the thc stockade stockade stockade stock stock- i ade social eJ epert expert issued her statement l prepared for her bel by Powers Marioneaux attorneys attorneys ne s 's for Mayor l Bransford and T. T Kearns that this den of iniquity was only closed temporarily to pull Bransford through h the convention of his city ciC em em- which grabbed the name of the the American party party- We Ve rather thought it might remain closed until after aftel the election or after the primary primar at least But it is operating again in full blast and the scenes which are a disgrace to Salt Lake manhood J Jand and womanhood are being repeated there nightly The stockade interests Belle London and her guilty p partners are facing a situation much like the small boy who was found industriously grubbing in ina a groundhog burrow which to the practiced eye showed signs of having haing been without a tenant for many months A bystander upon learning that the stripling was after a groundhog said There is no in that hole holc There has to be a a. groundhog in that hole said the bo boy r. r There is company in the house and aud nothing nothing noth noth- ing lug for dinner I have to get a groundhog The stockade interests are arc forced to elect re-elect Bransford by hook or crook The proprietress of the stockade who is now a convicted felon is the tho mayors mayor's social expert to quote Dr Paden of the First Presbyterian church and with anybody else in the tho mayoralty she will lose her place as vice co counsellor that counsellor-that that isn't a pun to to the city govern govern- ment Also unless Bransford can be re-elected re the stockades stockade's lay day ar art are numbered The profits which the thc London woman and her guilty partners have been coining will viii go glimmering This woman has plenty of money to hire law lawyers ers and to attempt to intimidate the chi chief f agency in Salt Lake L. which has been fighting the stockade The stockade The Herald T That hat hat money will be poured out lavishly from now until election day lay to elect Bransford and to frighten this his paper into dropping its opposition there can be he no un question In neither of these is the mayors mayor's social expert going to succeed Bransford in a statement recently recent recent- ly acknowledged his error and said he lie would never again tr try anything like the stockade for crass impudence im im- im- im in view of the fact that the lie stockade is I operating and the mayor c can call n scarcely avoid knowing it that recent statement takes the belt at |