Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-26
Why Socialist Will Not Vote
The $ American " Ticket IN Utah.


Headquarters Socialist Party, SO i. o.
PLACE. salt Lake City Utah. Sept.
%, 1908.
titled why Socialists viii Not5asyote
the American + Tic ket.'' by " Vim. j.
tSohlberg. an tficial of the Socialist
party, voices S{t he 'sentilneflts Of the
leading Socialists in Utah.
5 &c Y Yours trul ~,
81 j b. SCOTT,
state Chairman, Socialist Party.
An article from the pen of one VIM.
IS. Dalton, in the Tribune of Sept. co.
has just como to my notice wherein
the writer assumes to voice the POI
6litlcal sentiments of the Socialist party
sof this state-:l party OF which he is
not a member "a S no has betrayed the
cause, so far AS he could do 'sosS tllot
for thirty pieces of silvero, for d mess.
of pottage, i.Fe.,s a livelihood, a clerical
position in the city and county build
ing. 5 81 & sa3 4
The figures which he gives of the de-
cline OF the Socialist vote may be true
because he did more than any other
man tosdestroy the party. 5
The assumption that these votes were,
given to the ..American, party bears
the same questionable trade mark as s
the statement that the american" par
ty in Utah is battling for a cardinal.
doctrine OF the real Socialists
All men Sytnpatllize With the man
whose necessities compel him TO vote
or align himself teven temporarily
with a political party, Which is the
enemy Of the class Of which he is u
TO- Ri
stroyed when he seeks to drag down,
and n,lsrepresent. the honest, earnest,
incor1uptjble members. his former po-
litcal associates IA ~ s
Socialism will not be turned aside,
nor from it's legitimate purpose i. o.
the cooperative 3 commonwealth. The
efforts or Mr.. Dalton to turn one
this Is the same old political trick,
which destroyed Populism, and other
reform movements of he people.
Socialism makes no war on religion
or ecclesiasticism unless that acclesi-
astical organization seeks to- invade
the political arena and Dolfute It's
sacred calling, by influencing Its COM
municants through fear of the church,
es dspleasure and communication. to
vote contrary to their honest convic-
tons, as a. great religious organiza-
ton is said to have done, If Els now
doing. and which Is MOI III I'll y
CHURCH Of JESUS CHRIST OF
| LATTER-nAY SAINTS.
Wherever you find a Socialist you
Will find propagandist; he will talk;
he will try to convert you, and he
l$sometimes succeeds. as witness some
fifty million OF US today stUS" this
little word of two letters is cunning
| ~ and untruthfully used here. Mr.
lDalton is not a Socialist, nor does he
belong to the Salt Lake local, nor does
| he pay dues to the cause, nor Is he
1 Identified With the proletarian move.
lsment, in this year of the most glori'
Gus efforts of Socialism, nor has he
mounted "a soap box, to set forth tc
| hungry men and women the principles
| for which we strive therefore We pro
\ test against his presumptuous effort t.
\ set the Mormon people against the glo
1 rious principles of Socialism. i
So long as the party gave Mr.. Dial
ton a livelihood, so long as he pos
sessed the full dinner pail he wa
4 Ia Socialist; when the party could NJ
i longer support him, lusting after TIL
Z flesh pots he went into the Amer
4 inan" party. but we know where to fin
4 him whell}swe want him df we ever. do
4 for he is hut the slave of his neces
8 stiles, bundBto the car of Juggernaut.
."The negroes free: but in his place,
i The wage slave bows his haggard face