Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-11-05
NOT MORMON & ANTI-MORMON
The Result Was Distinct Repuda.
ton Of Dangerous Bosses
And Bossism.
WICKED, SLANDEROUs CAMPAIGN.
Shameful Appeals to Arouse the
Prejudiees Of the Gentiles Of the
CiV--A Debasing Work.

Former Congressman George Suther-
land, being asked by the Deseret News
for a statement OF his opinion OF the
causes that led to the overthrow OF the
Republican party In this city on Tues
day last prepared the following;
salt Lake city has, today in my
judgment, under ordinary conditions,
an overwhelming Republican majority.
The result of Tuesdays election cannot
justly be construed as a rebuke TO the
Republican party. 1t is rebuke to
certain sinister influences in that par
ty. The fight was not one against Mr..
Knox personally-it was against the
machine and the immediate followers az
the machine which doomed threatening
ly behind him.
DISTINCT REPUTATION.
TT was distinct reputation OF boss
ism, at once significant in It's character
and overwhelming in Its consequences.
The Salt Lake Tribune and the Salt
Lake Telegram may argue and de-
nounce until doomsday, but they Will
never convince anybody who is willing
to know the truth that the contest was
Mormon and anti Mormon. II was ma
chine and enti-machine, and no one
knows the fact better than the men
who control and publish those two
papers.
REAL ISSUE HIDDEN.
Every effort was made 10 conceal
the real Issue, Every appeal was made
that could be made TO the prejudlces OF
the Genties Of the city. The salt Lake
Telegram was particularly vicious In its
demands that Mormon Republicans
upon the ticket should be beaten and
at the same time so impudently incon-
sistent as to pretend to be shocked that
Mormon Republicans might retaliate.
In other words. in It's peculiar brand OF
ethics, II was entirely proper for its
followers TO stone the Mormon Repub-
lican, but distinctly ungenerous for the
latter to return a brlokbat.
SUSPENSION BETTER.
THE truth about It is that 1t would
have been far better for the Republican
ticket II both the Tribune and Tele-
gram had suspended publication eight
weeks ago. The course pursued by
both papers before as well as after the
convention was not only idlotio but po-
litlealy dishonest, Before the conven-
ton the former paper, instead OF saying
the Tribune is Republican paper and
stands for fair field and no favor.
in a Republican convention as between
Republican candidates OF equal honesty
and Integrity, assailed by snecrs ana
inuendo every aspirant for the mayor.
atty except tho one II believed would
aid the personal ambitions OF its owner.
and the Telegram was nl!ed with false
and malicious ISLANDERS against every
Republlcan-Gentile and Mormon--wh
would not subscribe TO It's policy Of
falsehood and abuse.
DROVE VOTES AWAY.
1T Is safe to say that each paper LOST
the party hundreds Of votes. The claim
now made by both papers that the de.
fiction in the Republican vote was
wholly or principally from among tho
members OF the Mormon Church IL nor
true. The Gentle Republican defec-
ton was quite as great. II not greater.
Both classes of citizens were actuated
by precisely the same feeling not Of op-
position 10 Republican policies nor OF
opposition to the personnel OF the tick
et but OF opposition to Influences and
personal aspirations which were re-
garded as threatening the best inter-
ests Of Republcanism IN this state"