Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-08-05

if Richard p. Morris knows on which |
side his political bread is buttered he |
will veto that ordinance when it comes
before him, but he won't, because he
is being willingly worked as the figure
head of the general deal Of which he
Is a part.
Every one who has the city's inter
ests at heart hopes this purchasing
agent" scheme will be defeated, but
it will not be. 1t is vicious meas
ure and ought not to pass, but 1t
would be still more vicious should
John S. Critchlow be selected as the
man for the place. He is unworthy
| to be appointed, because he has never
done anything to help his party except
when it served his immediate purpose.
While he has been on the finance COM
mittee for the Democrats several
times, it was Jim Leary, Bob Sloan
and Thomas F. Thomas who raised
the money. Either one of the three
are entitled to the place more than
he and either one is better qualified.
Mayor Morris owes more to Ben Luce
for his election than to any other man
now active in the Democratic party.
AS a matter of cold fact, Morris owes
his nomination to Martin Mulvey and
one or two others. They are the men
who controlled the deliberations of
the city committee that fixed up the
slate and ran it through the conven-
ton. The delegates to that conven-
ton, outside the select few, didn't
know what they were going there for.
They didn't even know what the slate
was. They voted to sustain" the
names presented by the authorities"
and that was all there was to it. The
delegations were herded like sheep
and told who to vote for and they did
lit. d. II. Peery was not at that time
in the scheme and he came down to
the Grand opera house to nominate
Steve Lynch for treasurer He was
sat upon so hard that he didn't recov-
err for an hour. Then he asked: who
hit me with the brick?" In an ordin-
airy sort of battle Lynch would have
given Harris close race but this
was cut and dried. OF the dozen men
who put up that job Ben Luce has
place as land and water commissioner
at $11O a month. Haslam got a posi-
ton in the treasurer's office. Jackson
got a cross reading in the health de-
partment and the balance got what
the small boy shot at; nothing; Null
vey was never recognized even for
minute although he wanted no office
POLAND went back to his job at the
light and power office, Sears ran for
county clerk and was defeated and
that is the reward he received. Wiley
was taken care of by Judge Dey with
a small place and the balance told to
roam whittier they might Not one
man who helped secure that nomina-
ton for Morris; not one man who
assisted in helping Critchlow to get
his pay doubled without any addition
al work was ever considered for a min
ute as he should have been consid-
cred. In fact the latter went back
on every political friend he had and
will do it again when opportunity pre-
sents itself.
1t is because of the ingratitude
shown party warkers by the Demo
Gratis that so many are sulking in
their tents this fall. The men who
get out the votes in the districts are
fighting and will fight the election of
Morris. OF course the generals" are
still strutting around, but they resem-
Bile brigadier in command of the