The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-07

BarwOOd's day Ruderick and his clan
held carnival, and the Under World
was iniquitOuSly encouraged to acquire
vested interests in the city of Cornville.
Therefore, there was honest indigna-
ton in the Under World when Herbert
Renshaw, esq, became a candidate for
mayor against Mayor BarwOOd. The
powers that rule met as one man to
ment when it seemed that they might
count on the Individual assistance of
the powers that prey, but fate de-
cided otherwise. Fate was Ruderick
and the Great Idea
To the banner of reform Haunted by
Herbert Renshaw, esq, hocked many
adherents, among them his friend Ed
win COWleS, a ger leman of upright
prejudices, and Richard Englar, who
owned a bank and considered that all
with reference TO that fact These
three constituted themselves a power
and a party and drew up that which
they misCalled a platform.
At the time Herbert Renshaw, esq,
announced himself a candidate for the
three bad men in the municipality who
Travelled and transacted business under
the names of 'Fritzie' Cannes,
'Soapy'' Wadlow and "Frenchy'' La
tame. In the class beneath Ruderick
Mcklowd they were the greatest and
the most envied Under World celeb
rites living in the community.
Fritzie' was a gamester from Lon
don, England. who betted when he
knew beforehand that he could not lose
because he had fixed things that way.
Soapy' was a tool" from Frisco,
who could reef a leather in a driv
Ing rain and gale of wind, ana
trenchy' was q "stall'' from Quebec.
who was a crowd in himself and could
create push and squeeze on an open
prairie, If the victim marked for the
Clp should take refuge there. He could
arrange a ''frame-up' and relieve
Soapy" Of the stolen pOcketbook, after
Soapy' had lifted it from the victims
pocket, with a rapidity that made his
less practCed fellow stalls proclaim
MN Wunderkind.
Be it known that the three bad men,
win the severe simplicity of taste that
Delongs 70 an aristOcracy, detested
pos In the event of RenShaw' s
election as mayor the three believed
tHal tornville would assume a pose
u IecuJude, which was the less agree
aole 10 them because it would hurt
GteE business. Therefore, when Rem
~" nomination was announced they
D counsel with themselves and with
1su9erck for the defeat of Renshaw
~ ~ me better government of Corn
me II was Rudericl1s distinction in
.'Gy community where he happened
- settle for any length Of time to be
t-sHei Tor his view Of all matters of
tc,nportance to the Under World.
oPeahing gene. ally, he did not give
t@Lu'lae unless he felt like it, and for
most part he did not feel like it. He
ooAed upon chewing the rag" as a
t-.ll' useless before a man has done
- !Jo, and ruinous afterward. More
50 Guns talk themselves into the stir
- d yeaT,' he said, than all the force
1e o[lu cop out in a century" He was by
permanent a 'single-handed" spec
Li@ilSl what he had to do professionally
a. Hhed 10 do alone, and no questions
uaAsu and no tales told. "A gun thu :
,olNS by himself can never turn
5iia-eS evidence, and there's nobody to
5-lIe II the job turns bad, and nobody
~ STARE with if it don't" was his in
ba sa,Dle reply TO all suggestions that
"5 JOIN push
mere were times, however when Ru-
e LEX saw points for his own hand in
s.sIeIal discussion. and "Fritzie, -
ooOapy and "Frenchy'' dropped in up
S -. nm at a time when he was very
rSII0usly considering what cards at the
NJ IIIoInent he held. He was meditating
'le Great Idea.
.. FrJzie" was the spokesman of the
-. and he gave Ruderick, from the
- point of view, very conclusive ar
s51G5It s why Herbert Renshaw, esq,
,-iIIlu not be elected mayor of Corn
riai If he's elected" Fritzie ex-
-aiileo, it'll be the same thing over
~iIu mat we was UP against in York
mat reform administration was