The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-29
LOOK OUT FOR THE
WOLF, HE'S COMING
He Is After Police Chief and
Councilman Mulyey, and
Is Running.
FEARS THEY MAY GET
ON THE SUPREME BENCH
All This Brought Out at Meeting
of Harry Began to Boost
Bryan.

Three colored ladies, seven colored
gentlemen and Henry Began met al
the African NJ. +. church Friday night
and didn t organize William Jennings
Bryan club. Began, who is III fact a
cook, and in Imagination political
boss, stated TO his audience of ten that
there were fifty-nine signers to the call
for the meeting, but that for some rea-
SON which he was unable to learn most
Of them had been unable TO get out.
AS ii was getting late, he wouldn I wait
of the meeting. This he proceeded
TO do.
He stated that il was his intention
to organize n William Jennings Bryan
c'Nb m Salt Lake. The object was to
show the two political parties that the
cV-oreu .oter Is not bound to the sup
port of either of them. ''We feel il
our duty to change our politics. said
he, ''as often as we want to. l was a
Republican until eight years ago, but
they used me in such an inferior way
that | switched. ] IN today Demo
craft
Afraid Of Sheets and Mulvey.
The speaker denominated the present
American party as absolutely no good
on at least half dozen counts. 1t is
run, body and soul, he declared, by old
George Sheets and Councilman Mul
vey. ''Supposin' - SAID be, ''that
either one Of these men should get On
the Supreme bench. What would be-
como of the colored MANI This being
the first intimation that Mulvey and
the chief are schemiDg TO grab the
Judiciary and run of with it, the three
colored ladies looked astonished and the
seven colored gentlemen slowly shook
their heads as who should say: "It's
tough, gentlemen, 1t s tough.
- A year ago. continued the orator,
looking out over the vast sea OF up
turned faces. 81 stood before YOU and
predicted what would happen if these
Americans ever got hold OF the reins
OF municipal government. Was [ right
or wrong? y year ago a colored man
could go down the street and buy IL
drink wherever he wanted 10. How is
it todays He's got to pick out his sa-
loon or he is likely TO be barred out.
/ say TO you," exclaimed the colored
cook, without any apparent connection,
that there is more lawlessness in
America today than in any country on
earth. not excepting Russia. There they
kill EN- off fast enough, but they don t
mob EN-
Denounces Everybody.
The speaker punched all the promi-
nent Republicans and American party
leaders and denounced them individual
ly and collectively. Roosevelt S pro-
fessed friendship for the colored man
was, he declared, rank fraud, and,
according to his hitherto infallible pre-
diction, the prime object of all Amer
leans was 10 make it impossible for
the negro to live in Salt Lake The
talk was so screamingly ludicrous az
TO be entitled to place among the
top-notch farce comedies of the day.
Concluding a harangue that stub
bornly refused to mean ANYTHING, ex-
cept that the torator'' ought to 90 be-
fore the Insanity commission for eX-
animation, he cried out: "Thcy ain It
no reporters heah, only Jest one, and I
know where he comes from He IS from
The Tribune. / want to say TO him In
this public meetin ,, and ! want him TO
put it down: 'The wolf is after YOU
Americans, and he II get you.'''
Who s the wolf1' queried the re-
porter, from his seat.
''I's the wolf roared NJ. Ro~an.
Put that down. Is the wolf and l IN
after you So 1t S ~ To tue An.c.icau
party to look out for the wolf.
Mr.. Began intends, he saws, TO call
another mass meeting in q short time
and endeavor to effect the permanent
organization of the William Jennings
Bryan club. At the conclusion of his
talk he introduced young colored
man named Page, who took an awkward
tall out or Sheets and Mulyey and SAT
down amid loud cheers from a man who
had recently been arrested for beating
his wife. Then the vast audience dis
pcrsed-