The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-20
CORTELYOU IS NOW
PAYROLL EDITOR
Church Republicans Slough the
Job Upon the National
Committee.
COL. ED LOOSE OF PROVO
HAS GOT FROM UNDER
Joseph F. Smith Feels Better in
That Tithing Fund Is
Still Safe.

Colonel Ed Loose of Provo, according
to reliable gossip which comes from in
ncr circles of church Republication, has
sloughed off the Job of editing the pay
roll of the morning SIN organ to
Chairman George B. Cortelyou of the
Republican National committee. The
hierarchs and lesser lights in the Nor
mon priesthood. it is said. are chuck"
ling over the idea of having bunkoed
the Republican National committee in
TO paying the running expenses of an
organ of the Mormon church, an organ"
ization which has tithing fund Of up
wards OF S2,000,000 a year.
When it became necessary to pur
chase the controlling interest in the
Smootite organ from A, f. Blupck, it
was commonly understood that Senator
Smoot. "Curly' Callister and "Bill -
Spry induced Joseph F. Smith to adj
vance the moOey out Of the tithing
fund, and Mr.. Blunek departed from
Zion with the reputation OF being the
only man who mad ever gotten the best
of the Mormon church in business
deal,
Frugal of the Tithes
But Joseph +. is a frugal man when
it comes 10 putting up the titbing fund
for any purpose save his own purposes,
and very early III the game, it is said
he declined with great emphasis to
serve as payroll editor of the sheet
He informed the Smoot coterie that In
putting up the money for the purchase
ot the organ ne bad done all he in
tended 10 do, and that they must look
elsewhere for the Doodle to make up
the large monthly deficiency IN the
operating expenses.
in this extremity Colonel Loose was
appealed to. He is known as the only
member OF the Smoot organization who
VIII part with MS money without being
prled loose from it with crowbar and
he consented to advance the money
monthly. This, it is said, he did for
several months, until the expenditures
reached point where they were max
ing an uncomfortable hole in his bank
account. He palked against further
pouring Of money into a rat hole, and
1t bename necessary to hud new San
gel. -
Salisbury Not Liberal.
Orange J. Salisbury. who is the nos.
SCISSOR of gold"brick promise that he
Will be given Smoot s seat in the SEN
ate, was first appealed 10. it is said,
but Mr.. Salisbury is what is known
In sporting circles as .'tight wad,N
and even the allurements of Senator.
ship were not sufficient to make him
come through For awhile 1t was
tNtiIh AhdL LHt SUPtD WOulu u1S OF
nnaemia, because the county advertising
patronage which "'Jodv" Eldredge has
at his disposal Is not sufficient to keep
1t alive. and. moreover. NJody" has
refused to give the paper an entire
monopoly of that patronage To make
matters worse the mercantile and other
industries of Zion have exhibited an
indifference To the fate of the Smootite
daily that Is positively brutal
& hen, a.
bunch, however. II was that the Re.
publican National committe should be
deluded into the belief that the cause
OF Repubilcanlsm would languish and
die IN Utah unless the Smoofite paper
were Kept alive. 1t was decided that
MI Cortelyou should be convinced that
the warhorses of the alleged Repubi.
can party in Utah had exhausted all
their available resources IN keeping the
sheet out Of the newspaper boneyard,
and that the Republican brethren IN
other states must come TO the rescue.
else the Republicans Of Zion would have
10 receive their sole newspaper instruc-
ti"n from newspapers owned and edited
by ungodlY Americans and pcrverse
and wicked Democrats.
Loose Sent OH Mission.
Colonel Loose as Utah 5 member of
the Republican National committee, was
selected to carry the news TO Cortelwou.
and 1t Is SAID he accepted the mission.
1t Is SAID that he used all that forensic
eloquence which has made him famous
from Richmond to st. George in urging
upon the national chairman the abso.
lutte necessity Of putting up the long
green III buncnes and indefinitely.
That is why Colonel Loose looks more
cheerful than usual An enormous bur
den has been lifted from his sbouIdars
Joseph j., too, feels berter. He is re-
licved of the nightmare of having TO
put up money from the tithiug fund
Cor his morning edition. The Repub |
llcan National committee has been
hornswoggled into editing the payroll |
OF Mormon organ that can say things
which Joseph r, would not dare permit |