The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-29
WHAT NoN-PARTIsANs MEAN

The declared purpose of the bogus
mon -partisans in this school elec.
tion is to Danish the "outside' teach.
ers, stigmatizing them as having
been 'raised on the hog ranches of
Missouri and Kansas and charging
that they ''are instilling into the
minds of the children under their
charge a prejudice against conditions
that exist in Utah. that is to say.
against polygamy. This furious and
brutal assault upon the "outsider -
teachers was made by a polygamist.
and there is not the least doubt that
when he complained about the teachers
instilling "a prejudice aaginst condi-
tions that exist in Utah." he meant
to object, and did, in fact. object. to
the teachers saying anything against
polygamy
This coarse and indecent assault in
the interest of crime, made for the
purpose of intimidating teachers from
making any objection to that crime. is
proper subject of resentment by
the teachers. and it should be utterly
repudiated by the good people of this
city.
And yet, there is not the least doubt
that IN making that indecent assault
upon the teachers Mr.. HYDE.
polygamist, simply voiced the senti~
ment of the convention over which he
presided. He was wildly and en-
thuslastically cheered, and man who
is Of precisely the same view as
MI Hyde was put In nomination.
Further, in response 10 a demand that
Chairman Hyde, polygamist, should
withdraw or qualify his remarks. Mr..
Moses Davis replied that while the
chairman, Mr.. Hyde, had "probablv
stated things in little different
manner than some of the rest of them
would have done, he considered the
remarks that the chairman had made
to be pertinent and to the point, and
he, for one, felt that the remarks
should not be withdrawn; and Mr.,
Davis was loudly applauGed; the re.
marks were neither Withdrawn nor
modified, but, being approved by the
non'partisan convention, stand as its
sentiments. And though Mr.. Moyle
protested, and said that if that was to
stand as the issue, the convention had
two nominees TO make, the convention
plainly signi6ed that it must so stand
and Mr. Moyle did not resign.
Apostle Smoot, from his place in
Provo, whence he aspires to control
this city in its political and municipal
AFFAIRS, continues TO insist. through his
mouthpiece here, that the Americans
have no business with more than one
representative on the Board Of Educa.
tion of this city; that this is repre-.
sentation. though the Americans are
the leading party here. Well, If one
member in fifteen is representation for
the leading party, the others are clear
ly not entitled to any member at
all. But to give the minority parties
fourteen out Of fifteen members, and
then claim that the leading party
should be content with one, and
call that representation. is insolence
unparalleled.
The truth is that this town can get
along very well without any inter.
ference from or dominance by Apostle
Smoot. We do not concede his right
to apportlon memberships on the
| Board of Education or in any other
municipal agency His ''non-par-
lsan" conventions are n shameless
farce; his sentiments, as expressed
| through his minor ecclesiastic. Ed or
| Hyde, are barbaric and indecent The
purpose Of his interference in the