The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-08
THANKS TO sMooT.

st. Louis-The Planters: The Southern
! THANKS TO smooT.
s The American party has been elected
& control the city government in all Of
s Is departments for the next two years.
y I has the mayor and a majority OF the
8 ounciL II viii name all the heads of
departments, discharge every Mormon
mploye of the city, permit no Nor
mons to work for the municipality in
8 my capacity and reserve all city offices
8 or American followers.
For this result the people of Salt
AXE are indebted 10 Reed SmoOt.
United States senator for Utah and a
esEdent OF Provo. together with Z. II.
,allister internal revenue collector:
William Spry of Tooele, the chairman
- the Republican state committee, and
s James II Anderson, commonly known
8 Is PUSSY Jimmy" political secretary
o the aforesaid Senator SmOot.
Up TO within a week of the election,
s while the campaign had been bitter and
8 unpleasant, there had been no sugges-
81 ion OF crooked methods or sinister in
i luences in behalf of any of the candi-
s. Iates. Within twenty-four hours after
hey appeared together in Salt Lake,
he old system of whispers" and mods
8 ana innuendOs and gum-shoe, dark
antern politics was in full swing. BY
zSunday the game was at its height
and eliminated in the now celebrated
SBelief society invitation, which was
p3lpable effort 10 use a charitable or
sanizatiou of the Mormon church in be-
#half of the Smoot machine candidate.
There could be but one result from
S such open, fragrant haunting abuse of
a religious privilege; the Gentle DEM
0crsts aud Republicans who admired
Mayor Morris and had stood firm for
Shim Wavered; the Mormon Democrats
who would not be cOerced or dragged
s at the tail of the Smoot chariot any
longer rebeled openly; Mormon Re-
q publicdns staunch church people who
S had tolerated Smoot ana his crew un-
Ill they could stand it no longer, de-
rared their intention of voting either
S fur, Morris or Thompson. No such re-
: volt against a machine has ever been
seen here, and il is the most hopeful
s sign i'm the whole unlovely muss that
il places the responsibility for the
American victory at the doors of the
4Smoot- CauiNer-S pry-Anderson combi-
s nation SO clearly they can neither
evade nor explain.
So Ear as the Democrats are con-
ccrned, they have no apologies to make
snor regrets 10 express for unavoidable
defeat. now that it is over. They made
clean fight for the cleanest ticket the
city ever had; they have left a record
i'm Office of which they have a right to
bee proud; they have inausurated pub
'lic improvements and great water
lsystem which the Americans" will be
compelled TO complete in spite of their
pre- election pledges against it. The
Democracy warned the Smoot outfit as
10 the inevitable result if they attempt
al 10 swing Democrats to Lynch
Through church influence or. anything
|that sayored of it, As always, the
Smoot combination refused 10 cOnttne
themselves to legitimate methods, and
they will reap the consequence in po-
litical ignominy while Salt Lake pays
the bill. If yesterdays history does not
spell the destruction of the Smoot ma
chine and Smootism in politics, then
The people OF this city and state are
willing TO endure more than any peo-
pie in the whole United States. The
one cheering feature of the perform
lance TO a Democrat is that Smoot and
his little coterie have accomplished
their own undoing where others have
failed
I The Herald regrets the defeat OF
Mayor Norris and the Democratic tick
+ Ell but it has no tears. 10 shed or COM
plants TO offer. It believes that the
voters have made a mistake in cho0s-
ms thompson W NEi AtlNS t'tiLi NV
had Morris. But the election belongs
10 yesterday. and the days 10 come are
too full of promise 10 Salt Lake. there
E IS 80 much 10 work for in behalf Of the
clty's growth, the horizon is SO wide
and opportunities are so plentiful that
neither this paper nor any Of its friends
can afford To waste time over the
might-have- beens. IN whatever of
good the American" party attempts
Tor Salt Lake it viii find The Herald
with il; in any attempt it may make 10
do harm or work wrong, The Herald
will fight H.
We wish Mayor Thompson joy OF his
job, and We hope the people of salt
Lake VIII recall daily and hourly for
the next two years their Indebtedness
TO Reed Smoot and r. II, Callister and
William Spry and James Ii. Anderson.
That was quite an election party we
had in front of The Herald Office last