The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-11
bAMBERGER IS To
LEAVE COMMITTEE
He Will Tender His Resignation
as Chairman at Called
Meeting.
BIG ROW ON AMONG
SALT LAKE DEMOCRATS
Church Faction and GENTLE
Faction Are at Outs and
War Is On.

There is big war brewing between
the church Democrats and tho Gentlle
Democrats. It is all over tho call for
Democratic day, tho date OF which Is
fixed for August SO and the place at
Saltair This call wns issued by l.. r.
Martineau. chairman OF the Democratic
city and county committee. Not only this,
but he is in charge of all tho arrange
ments. The outing Is to be q State at
fair, and thereby hangs tale.
The announcement of Democratic day"
was printed In the alleged organ Of the
Democracy, All the Democrats OF Utah
were invited, Pltchfork Tillman OF South
Carolina Is to be the orator, The day
80 to informally open the fall campaign.
The city and county committee IL to as
sist Chairman L. r. Martineau, chairman
be confined to Salt Lake Democrats, but
members Of the party from all parts Of
tho State are expected to unite In "a
genuine old-time Democratic jolllfca-
tion." All this looks good to the church
Democrats. In view that Saltair WAS
selected aa the place makes II look much
better to them, and this ends chapter
No. !.
Comes now tho GENTLE Democrats Of
Utah. under tho leadership OF Simon
Bamberger. State Senator and chairman
OF tho Democratic State committee He
and his committee have been Ignored.
Hence there is a loud and long and In
dignant howl raised. Simon is expected
to furnish the dough" In the campaign;
he is expected to hustle the funds, but
when II comes to tho dress parade act
he ia left out and the church Democrats
take tho lead This has made the big
chief angry and he is going to quit. To-
day notices will be sent out by the chair
man OF the committee calling q meeting
Of that body for August "a. At this
meeting the riot act will be read and then
the resignation of Chairman Bamberger
will be presented and Immediate action
insisted upon. This ends the second
Simon Bamberger owns the Lagoon re-
sort; the church crowd own Saltair
This may or 1t may not have something
to do with the row. but the Bamberger
crowd are up In arms over the selection
by Martineeu Of Saltair. They are angry
because their chief WAS ignored; they
are angry because they were ignored;
they are angry because Saltair was Sc
leoted; they are angry because Lagoon
was not designated. Hence the row. How
pleasant It is for brethren to dwell in
unity.
The case against City Health Ofacer
DR.. r. NJ. Stewart and those of all the
other defendants recently arrested for
alleged violation Of the garbage dump
Ing ordinance were continued without
date by Judge Dana T. Smith, Friday
This means that the arrests
were made on nimsy charges and that
the cases will. in all probability. never
be tried, unless the defendants them
selves Insist upon trials for the pur-
pose OF testing the law. In connection
with the complaint filed against DR.,
Stewart. has It ever occurred to you
that some one might be trying to vent
spleen and spite against the Board of
Health. rather than to look for the pub
lie good? Might not another board be
the party that Is pressing tho lover? Is
Is not well-known fact that the health
OF the city wns never better than now;
that in point Of cleanliness 1t is cleaner
than ever In Its history? In othor words.
ls not some one who Is living in a glass
house throwing stones?
Washington dispatches state that Judge
Marshall OF the United States District
court has kept Penrell Cherrington, As
sistant United States Attorney In of
ice. Mr.. Cherrington declares that this
s an erroneous statement. Judge Mar
shall, In view Of his judicial position.
does not dabble In politics