The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-19
WARM ADDRESS
TO THE VOTERS
Chairman NJ. F. Cunningham
Tells What's the Matter
With Salt Lake.
TELLS POLITICAL HISTORY
REVIEWS EVENTS OF PAST FEW
YEARS.

YEARS.
Nj. +. Cunningham, chairman of the
Democratic county committee. yester-
day issued an address to the citizens OF
Salt Lake county, in which he sets
forth existing conditions here and their
cause, and points out a remedy that
may be applied by the voters. His adj
dress follows:
To the Citizens Of Salt Lake County:
You are confronted by conditions that
are disgrace to the community. Neigh
! Dor is arrayed against neighbor in Bit
! terness of heart. Bigotry. hate, cUpidity
and distorted ambition are the forces that
! govern the actions of men. Public offices
| are debauched in a Wretched scramble
! for advantage. Public business is prosti-
| tuted TO partisan ends. Private citizens
are made the victims Of vicious crusades
Reason and the teachings of Christianity
| are banished from consideration. Vio-
lence is prevented only by the fear OF
| punishment.
These conditions are traceable directly
| to the plumbers and the misdeeds of the
Republican party in Utah. In support OF
| this statement let us review a scrap of
| history:
Six years ago, as a result of a deal with
| Reed Smoot and the men in his conf
dence, Thomas Kearns was elected TO a
seat In the United States senate. En-
trenched in his position through the grace
! OF the Republican party. then I'm complete
control of the state, Mr.. Kearns set llp a
| dictatorship such as is rarely seen in a.
republic No ruler was ever more alb
solute. He repudiated the men who
! raised him TO office. Arrogance governed
his every action.
The day of reckoning came and Thomas
Kearns was hurled from power. His place
on the throne was Immediately taken by
Reed Smoot, an apt scholar. His highest
ambition in politics is TO out-Herod He
rod, and up TO this time success has
crowned his efforts
This disgraceful feud between Thomas
hearns and Reed SmOot led TO an open
rupture IN the Republican party, and
since then there has been little for the
citizens OF the community but sorrow and
shame. Every legitimate interest In the
state has been impaired by these wretched
warning ambitions; throughout the land
from ocean 10 ocean Utah has become a
kissing and "A by-word: and on all sides
reasonable men are praying for some ave-
nue. of escape.
Two Republican Factions.
The Republican party is rent into two
bitter factions as the direct result OF the
! personal quarrel between Thomas Kearng
ana Reed Smoot. one faction is known
as the SmoOt machine" the other as
the American party" The heart and
center OF the SmOOt machine" I'm this
| county is made up Of federal. state and
|
of these officials are prostituting their
positions and neglecting the duties for
which they draw pay from all the people
in a vicious and Senseless eDdeayor nor
/ to advance the public interests, but at
the expense OF the public. TO entrench
themselves and their parasites more firm
ly in their positions and in this way adj
vance their own selfish ends. Corruption
In some of the departments Of the county
government and gross Incompetence i'm
other departments are the inevitable re-
suits of this system.
An essential and very important factor
IN the Smoot machine" is that contempt-
lDle biped who goes about trying hv-
hints. winks, mods and innuendo to con-
Vey the idea that it is the wish of the
head OF the Church Of Jesus Christ Of
Latter-day Saints that members OF that
churcA vote a certain ticket.
me other Republican faction, "tha
American party is now entrenched in
every department of the city government
of Salt Lake City This is the direct re-
suit of the blind folly Of Reed Smoot and
his political parasites. one year ago iust
on the eve of the city election Mr. Smoot
came TO Salt Lake City from his home,
IN Provo He came to dictate to the cit
lzenS or this community how they should
vote in local election. He brought with
him Republican National Committeeman
{. r. Loose with unlimited Doodle 10 In.
tIuence voters by betting on brokers row
and elsewhere. AS the direct result OF
the resentment aroused by this Invasion
many Democrats and Republicans broke
ranks TO defeat the SmOOt scheme. Will
liam j. Lynch, the Republican Candidate
Tor mayor OF the city. received but 1870
votes out of a total Of 21,719 cast for an
the candidates. This was less than ono
fourth OF the total vote. OF the fifty
three voting districts in the CITY William
} Lynch carried but one.
smoot Helps Americans
AS another direct result of this interior.
ence of Reed Smoot in local affairs salt
Lake City is delivered over to the mercy,
of that faction Of Republicanism which,
parades under the name of 1.-THE American
party IN the minds of reasonable men
the administration of this faction is held
70 be an intolerable curse. In lis leader-
ship and mana cement the Americas
party is the persOnificatiOn of hypocrisy
II is led by adroit and unscrupulous poll
uclanS who appreciate fully the value ~
religious prejudice as a political as
set 1t has played on the passions
OF IT'S followers until they an
proach the frenzy Of a crusade If a.
rogates to itself all the purity and All The
patriotism of the community, and under
this cover il gives free rein to vice and
righteousness. Taxes are raised 10 the
highest point in the history of the citv-
Public money is squandered right and left
as pay for party service. Favored con-
tractors are given the keys 10 the public
treasury: Public work is done only by
special favor.
Yet despite the fact that the city adj
ministratiOn is a stencil in the nostriIs Of
all men the Republican faction known as
the American party" Is now reaching
out for control of the county government
Denouncing church Influence in the ranks
of its opponents. il is itself on its own
side resorting to the lowest and basest
methods ever employed by any party i'm
this direction. ArrOgating TO itself ali the
virtues of Christianity. il appeals to every
evil passion in the human heart to adj
vance its cause. Posing as the speciaI
advocate of purity in all things. il is pre-
pairing to dehauch every ballot box in the
county. Wrapped in the flag of our COM
mon country and shouting aloud from the
house tops its intense loyalty. it is re-
sorting to methods that destroy all re-
spect for all government. And behind il
all is plainly visibly the personality. the
influence the revenge and the ambition
of Thomas Kearns.
Republican BIunders.
TO this extremity has this community
been brought by the blunders and blind
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