The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-10

committeeman for Utah.
Although Chairman Eldredge of the
church Republican committee will be
absent from the city for several days,
Chairman Cunningham of the church
Democratic committee Will be on hand.
In selecting the headquarters of both
committees and placing them In such
close proximity, the idea of the lead
ers was that when one chairman was
absent the other could act for both.
On and after today the American
party headquarters will be the place
where much hard work will be done
Chairman Darmer has not been idle
the past several weeks, and when the
doors OF the committee rooms open
everything Will be found in splendid
working order.
Queer. is it not, that the County
Attorneys office has Just found out
that a conspiracy exists between
Murray Justice Of the Peace, collec-
tion agency and an attorneyf Queer
is it not that no mention of the Sher-
ifT - Office is made in connection with
the complaint fled charging criminal
conspiracy7 Hundreds of people have
known for long while that the Office
of the Murray Justice was not run in
accord with the statutes. The public
prints have frequently called attention
to the fact, but the County Attorneys
Office processes ignorance of the mat
ter until just as campaign is on and
when the County Attorney and his as
sistant are both aspirants for place. 1T
has the appearance of play to the
grand stand; whether 1T VIII be pushed
remains TO be seen.
the County Attorneys Office will make
the discovery that several members Of
the hierarchy are living in fagrant and
open defiance of law. The hierarchy
band dominates the politics of Utah. 1t
NAV be, however, that when the hie-
rarch IS candidate for Congress, from
Cache county, is nominated by the
church Republican State convention
that the eyes Of the County Attorney
law breaking, law-defying members of
the band Of twenty-six may be discov~
cred.
1t is universally conceded throughout
the Bingham canyon district that the
American party ticket with good list
of candidates will pile up a vote that
will make both church Democrats and
church Republicans wonder what has
a long time coming into its own. For
a score of years IL has been under the
party lash and every tick of the clock,
both in municipal and county affairs,
has had to receive the approval Of the
bosses. But now the gang is scattered
to the winds, and the revelations of
graft and corruption among the church
Republican leaders of the district has
swayed public opinion in the direction
&c ho ha 4
can party has been the gamer by it.
The calcium of publicity has shown
the understudieS OF the church machine
in Salt Lake to be the rawest kind of
crooks and their manipulations of town
affairs during the time Of their control
left the people heavily in debt, while
their own purses were fattened. So
humiliating has been the exposure of
Bingham's S corruptness that the erst,
while Republican leader has fed to
other parts, while the other adopts at
whipsawing the common people are
seeking seclusion in oblivious silence.
Never has Bingham had such shak-
ing up politically as during the past
year, and ell as the result of an inter
nal fight among the church Republi-
ures of grating in town affairs. The
party is said to be rent in twain, the
cry of "anti-machine" being loudly
heard, and in the meantime the Ameri-
cans are winning over to their cause the
decent Republicans who are endeavor-
ing to repudiate corruption in their own
party.
The condition Of school affairs in
Bingham has brought even the most
earnest Republicans to a full realiza-
tion of the need Of shaking up in
county matters. By clever arrange
ment of school districts the County
Commissioners have managed to take
from Bingham the enormous sums con-
tributed by the wealthy mining COM
panies as school taxes, and spend it in
the valley and In sections where the
Mormons are in control, leaving the
camp and its surrounding districts with
the most miserable facilities for educat-
ing the children. Upper Bingham, Dal-
ton and Lark and Highland Boy have
been pleading hard for many years for
decent school houses, but up to the pres
ent none exist except upon promises.
These three districts probably contrib
ute more, in proportion to population,
to the school fund than any other part