The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-22
AMONG THE POLITICIANS.


worked title 1t is the title of Hon. A
scintillating illustration of this truth as
found in an american" poster gotten out
the other day to advertise a meeting OF
negroes in Federation of Labor hall this
evening. The black brothers are told they
will be addressed by Hon" Tom Pitt,
Hon f. A. Rogers and Hon 5. r
Armstrong.
title than any reDiier member of the trio.
He ran for sheriff on the American
ticket and now holds the position of chief
of police. He wasn't chief. however,
when the bills were gotten out. Rogers
probably is given the title because once
upon a time he was president OF the
Young Mems American club And
'Sanpete" Armstrong wins because he is
committee.
The titles were doubtless tackled on for
the benefit of the weak-minded among the
negroes, but, even so, the prefixes look
considerably like hog-wash TO the intelii-
gent observer. 1t is hard to believe the
negroes will be deceived.
The following communication was re-
ceived yesterday from Richard p. Morris,
the Democratic mayOralty candidate:
The statement in the Salt Lake Tribune
attempting to place me in the attitude of
favoring the success of the American
party. as against the Republican party,
is an outrage. | bslieve that the success
of the American" party in the coming
municipal election would be a great mis-
fortune to the citizens of Salt Lake City.
Z. p. MORRIS.
The appointment of Tom Pitt to succeed
ROderick Mckenzie as chief of police must
go on the record as a victory for the
inner circle of the American" party. This
circle, sometimes known as the per
suaders" and sometimes as the "evaders, {"
made the election of W. j. Halloran to
the mayOralty impossible by telling the
council it had to elect him. The same
crowd tried to land Pitt as chief of DO
came mayor.
Bransford at that time refused to be die
tated 10. Now, however. he has yielded
TO the opportunities of the men who really
run his party. Pitt is straight-out inner
circle man and may be depended upon to
40 exactly as he is told. There must have
been lot of rejoicing in the circle last
night when his name was sent to thu
council.
A correspondent of the Deseret Evening
News who signs himself "A Non-Parti-
san, made an error yesterday afternoon
that bore every evidence of deliberate and
malicious generalization. Evidently with
the thought of bolsterfng the waning
courage of the Republicans he spoke of
the necessity for members of the Demo-
cratic and Republican parties to get to-
gether' and quoted some figures He
sald; The vote for city officials at the
last election stood as follows" Then he
proceeded to give the city vote in the
county election, vote that has no bear
ing Whatever on the present fight The
real vote IN the last city election was as
follows 800 %
Morris .......... .. san
Iyhch ...'.'-..... ....................4970
Iai .437
Lynch carried just one voting district
IN that election; and he was a stronger
candidate than DR.. PlUmmer has shown
himself to be. Lynch did not carry q sin
gle ward in the city. He ran 9. $50 votes
behind Morris and 3.467 votes behind
Thompson. And still there are some Re-
publicans who profess to believe that only
with Plummer can Bransford be defeated
1t makes people smile to hear RepubIi-
cans charge Democrats with desiring the
election OF the American ticket espa-
clally those people that remember that
the Republican mayoralty candidate. DR.
Plummer, voted the American ticket i'm
Fart two years ago. and who remember
that the last vote cast in Salt Lake by the
chairman of the Republican CITY commit
tee was cast for the american ticket
And Chief Devine was so proud of that
vote that he went around telling about it.
A smoker is to be given in Republican
city headquarters Wednesday night. be-
ginning at o'clock. There will be plenty
of free cigars and refreshments and the
Coioi inc VIII Iol De utdWn III is under
stood that an effort is going to be made
to smoke DR.. Plummer out on the propo-
sition as to whether or not he said the
Republicans didn't have a chance on earth
to carry the election this year.
The designations of five Republican
candidates one from each
ward. were filed with the city
recorder yesterday. The candidates who
retire are Fred r. Davis, c. E. Davey.
Albert j. Davis, Andrew A. Smith and
John NJ. Hayes.