The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-17
his hearers by his voeIferous toying

his hearers by his voeiferous toying
with the dashes and the big, big DIS.
In this fight on the old police board,
the sentiment of the executives own
political friends is against him; and
any number of them are open in their
Statements that he is ripping their
organizations clean. up the back. There
are but a few who stand firmly at his
back in this matter and they are no.
torious blatherslites and persistent OF
flee seekers.
Had Shaken Down Gamblers.
When the governor cut off the heads
of his first appointees on the police
board Messrs. Stone and Phelps, there
wasn't very much objection, as it was
very generally admitted by the MEM
bers themselves that some of their
agents had shaken down. the ganb-
lers in the city previously Then the
mistake, but anybody is likely to do
that" The third member of the
board Trimble, was not mixed up in
the matter Governor Waite then ap-
pointed Messrs. Martin and Orr and
there was rejoicing in the Populist
camp The first bad break the board
made, at least in Waite's eyes, was the
appointment of A. w. Kellogg as chief
of police. Kellogg was a long, lean
rakish sort of man, with marked
partially to wearing his hat over the
left ear swelling out his chest and
betting in his waist, until the suspic-
ion got abroad that he wore. corsets.
He didn't, though, but he was good
fellow and chummed considerably
with we'll known men about town and
had no particular use for the haySeed
brand of pops; neither did he proceed
to make life a. hollow mockery for the
gamblers. There were a. dozen men
latter the job and they proceeded singly
and en- maSSe to get in gentle knocks
against him. These had their effect on
the governor and the order went Sc
lcretly forth from his Office to the com
missioners that Kellogg should be fired
The board refused. Waite resolved or
drastic measures. He Immediately got
out mis- little snickersnee and Topped
off the official head of inoffensive mem
Der Trimble, as a significant hint tt
Messrs. Martin and Orr of what nigh
) happen to themselves if they didn't dc
! the rest when the old man touched thu
button.
Some Pumpkins in Politics.
Just at this point Andrew jackson
!, Rogers dropped in on the scene an(
the plot thickened He was a Jersey
! man and was some pumpkins On poli
= tics. He had a large piece of the gov
, errors ear and was pumping all sort
-t
e words-these latter for himself-into il
When Trimble went, Rogers was ap
5 Ipointed to succeed him. The next da
some ardent Populist called the gov
: Iernor to account for a wasteful use @
e profanity. Andrew Jackson Rogers az
peared in a column of print in one @
the papers, quoted from several of tn
fathers and most of the apostles t
: show that the executive had a perfec
IL right to swear. 1t was a master stroke
5 Andrew Jackson was dead in line. II
o was Immediately dubbed "Ajax''-prot
a ably from the amount of Jersey ligh
: ming he must necessarily have defie
u in his earlier political career.
>, He Quoted Scripture.
t "Ajax" went Immediately to work I
IS mould the minds of Orr and Martin
lie They failed to see it his way. Then
Ie dug up more scripture and hurled tn;
= at them to no effect. He then, in liz
y with a previously outlined polio
D brought charges against them of coul
ID tenancing gambling. They were heal
10 before the governor. shortly after tt
extra session of the legislature had col
e vened. The trial took two days and !
its conclusion, the executive announct
S. that he would render a decision shortl
IN Then he very carefully pigeon-holed
ce until the session adjourned, when
re gave it out that they must CO. de a
v pointed D. w. Mullins and S. D. Earn
&c in their stead, and there you are. It's
ne case of dog eat dog and, aside fro
the bad effect it may have on the city
credit, the public cares very little whi
or side comes out ahead.