Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-14
'COUNC|L SESSION
TO Be A HOT one
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Evils, Called BY the Americans"
Necessary, Are Subject
To Call.
VOTE AGAINST PITT in DOUBT.
Sentiment of the Members In Recon-
sidcration of Pitt Removal
Is Still Cloudcd.

The meeting OF the city council to-
| IL interesting, if not positively amusing
situations. The question of sustaining
the action of the mayor in removing
! Chief of Police Tom Pitt for back
watering" on the red light district
removal proposition, Is coming up, and
the antics of the nine Americans"
who erstwhile We're absolutely oblivi-
Gus to the existence, even. of such a
district and who later. in order to fol-
low the dictates of the elmer circle"
in forcing Mayor Bransford out Of
the party, turned turtle. will FUR
nish the curious with food for reiiec-
ton on the chameleonlike mental ac-
tivities of members OF the majority of
the city council.
When the agitation Of the red light"
removal first came UP. who was more
enthusiastic for It's contamination than
Chief of Police Tom PittP Who was q
more enthusiastic, though officially ig-
norant of the situation, than Council
man Stewart, and Councilman Martin,
and Councilman Black? That the
mayor approved of the plan for a
stockade was well known by these men
from the first; and attendants at the
council sessions along through the
summer, when this matter was being
aired IN the shape of petitions to the.
council protesting against the pro-
posed removal of the district into q
neiGhborhcod surrounded by honies,and
schools and churches, will remember
that the council persisted in its re-
fusal to officially take cognzance of the
existence of such a district in the city
until the hand OF the elmer circle"
was shown, and it was decided by the
american" powers that be to GUST
Mayor Bransford from the party Of
rule or ruin for INSTRUMENTATION to the
chief manipulators of the masses for
Tom Kearns.
CHANGE OF HEART.
All at once change or heart be-
came visible. Members came &, see
the light" and one evening in council,
when petition protesting against
the removal of the red light was sent
in. signed by the Women's Auxiliary
of the American party, what haste
was there to adopt a resolution in the
solemn council conclave, deprecating
the existence of such district. and
placing the council on record as against
It's proposed removal to any or every
part of town whatsoever?
Mental gymnastics We're in order.
Pretty soon Chief Pitt, the prime ago.
tator of the stockade plan, began 20
hedge. He "had not fully investigat.
ed. and found that the plan was IL
failure in other cities. He was will !
ing to ''be shown" and came to the
conclusion that the stockade plan was
all wrong. after advocating it with
might and main up to the time that
It became apparent that there was tie
club with which to beat Bransford. Tha
next step was the natural one, and
convictions.
The conversion of other giants of
mentality and abstruseness then fol-
lowed, as a matter of course. Witness
even one ]. ]. Stewart the immaculate.
Who took every precaution and used
every means possible when the Dues
ton was first agitated in the council.
TO remain in Ignorance OF the situation.
now comes out in a "holter than thou
attitude and is quoted on the situation
as follows: j-si' 80
. Ordinarily I would vote to sustain