| Show Registration Frauds and the Dilemma of the Bransford Party D DEVELOP of the past fow few days das have ha made it rather embarrassing for the Bransford Brims Brans- ford party managers and consequently the road the they are arc traveling will be more tortuous before tomorrow tomorrow tomor tomor- row night The wholesale attempt to steal the thc coming coming com corn ing Hug election by flooding the downtown districts with ille illegal al voters has been detected in time to frustrate it and if the same degree of active surveillance is maintained until the polls pons close at 7 o'clock tomorrow tomorrow tomor tomor- I row evening not one ono illegal al vote ote will be cast in ill Salt Lake Incontrovertible evidence is at hand through confessions confessions confessions con con- of culprits or otherwise that prove pro the existence ex ex- of an ati organization maintained by the Bransford Bransford Brans- Brans ford party part committee to register illegal voters and repeaters in hi the thickly populated districts Men and women alike have been implicated in this gig gi gigantic gigantic gi- gi g gantic plot The sheriff and und Citizens Citizens' committee have ha the tIme names of over a thousand persons who are arc not qualified to vote ote and who were wem registered on last Tuesday through the activity of Bransford workers Every circumstance e surrounding this brutal attempt to subvert the w will lJ of the people points a plain trail to Bransford party part headquarters and the cOl confessions of those already in the toils actually establish the culpability of responsible persons persons persons per per- sons in the Bransford campaign n management The Republican Herald holds to its it original theory that these corrupt practices are merely thc the creatures of habit for they have appeared in various forms during all the years cars of Bransford rule role If the head hend of the party has not had a hand in the disgraceful disgraceful dis dis- disgraceful dis- dis graceful methods by which h votes arc being gathered I for him he has silently permitted his henchmen to togo togo togo go to any lengths and must by his acquiescence i bear a share of the responsibility I No man will coerce or buy a voter ir it there are sufficient honest votes in his favor and no honest man would resort to that practice under any con con- If among the respectable voters oters of Salt Lake Lake and and they are in the great majority there majority there happen to be sufficient w willing votes to el elect ct the thc Bransford ticket there would be no necessity for forthe forthe forthe the wild and frenzied appeal to the clement element The people of Salt Lake have been regaled with election scandal until they are thoroughly disgusted with the methods of unscrupulous politicians It IL is common gossip among politicians that the Bransford party will spend if necessary to win the election and the thc undisputed fact that the Bransford campaign managers have already contracted to spend nearly this entire sum gives credence to general rumor Two reasonable inferences may be drawn from this discreditable situation First that the Bransford Bransford Brans- Brans ford party has found the graft so alluring during the last five years ears that is little enough to spend in an effort to hold on second that it is worth or more to that party to conceal for four years years' what the records of the past five years show I i The public may draw its own conclusions The I fact remains that the Bransford party is making a dirty fight while the Citizens' Citizens party candidates are arc t conducting a clean orderly campaign and are arc spending spending spend spend- spending ing only enough money to instruct and educate the r people It is a sad commentary upon our politics t that no considerable sum of money can eRn be spent durin during a campaign unless some certain interests spending that money regard their con contributions as investments and await not to say demand a return of the thc favors they have thus extended At the same time itis it-is very cry gratifying that Mr rr Park and the Citizens' Citizens candidates do not look upon this election as tune to be purchased but on the other hand band are arc quite content to abide by the untrammeled vote of the people 1 |
