The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-24
THE GIST OF POLITICAL GOSSIP

Winter has set in in Bingham and
! Thursday night was most dlsagreeable
| one. but 500 men and women turned out.
| Notwithstanding this, TO hear r.. r.
Critchlow and NJ +. Wilson discuss the
issues of the campaign from an Ameri'
! can standpoint.
Bingham voters know that the Smoot
| Republicans have absolutely ignored
that camp except that the county as
SCISSOR raised the appraiscment OF Bing
ham property 100 per cent,
There is no point IN the county that
does so much for the material welfare
of the people of Salt Lake county and
no point that receives less cousidera-
tlon.
Harry Joseph is reported to have not
created much interest with his head
quarters al Bingham CANYON. He came
to Salt Lake Thursday night and re
turned yesterday, it is reported. with
several thousand dollars. 1t is the in
teDtion of the Smootitcs 10 persuade
President Smith that Americans want
TO punish him, and by this means the
local Smootite grafters will get at the
tithing fund. The probability is that
for every dollar used for election pur.
poses nine will be grated. bet on the
election or spent for booze.
In the meantime the washcrwomen
and the poor laborers in the church will
pay their tithing TO the Lord and
II will be spent to keep the Fussios, the
Curlics. the Kiukies and the Hurry
HarTys in office.
And speaking OF campaign funds. tho
criminal editors son. who is right hand
man 10 .Todv Eldredge boastcd a week
ago that the Smootites "havc moro
money in the safe in my office than
the Americans viii have al year. No
doubt about IL. but the key or combi.
nation is doubtless in some other s
possession. And, besides. the American
party docs not expect 70 win its fight
by fraudulent use OF money.
Two years ago Joe Sharp. the Smoot
candidate for sheriff. remarked that
the scum of the earth. IL was not
an original expression. but IL does in.
dicate thar Joe,s head needs fixing
Tom TaCgart ought TO pay Leroy
mighty well for his work in balling
the Smootites up in the Taft electoral
controversy. Leroy certainly had
the electors withdrawn from the 60 Taft
Liberal ticket.
While hundreds of thousands Of men
are searching for work in cities of the
east, Salt Lake has few that are idle.
The American party policy TO carry on
needed public improvements has been
boon both 10 the laborer and to the
merchant.
District Attorney Loofbourow would
not lay the tax fraud before the grand
Jury. but he was not too good TO accept
Brncc solomon 3 automobile. Now. what
did Fred paw for tbe machine which the
notorious divekceper "let him have
The Tribune told the public about the
deal9
II the county records are opened mp
BY American party experts. backed BY
Jerome Bourgard and J. f. McGinty,
several officials now in office and sew
eral members Of the county ring who
are former officials will take to the
hills or 70 to Jail. There was never n
more rotten gang of official pirates in
the country than some Of those who
are now "tearing up the TURF in their
eudeavor TO head off the stampede to
the American party.
The American party in Summit coun.
" is live organization. It will con-
troll Park City next wear and has a fair
show of carrying the county this year.
The "Mouth' gets crazier and more
desperate every issue. It told It's Nor
mon readers yesterday that Jody Ed
rcdge had made some calculations about
the result in Salt Lake county and that
Jody' SAYS the Smoot Republicans
VIII have as many votes as the Ameri.
cans and Democrats combnedl The
prediction says Americans will have but
10000.
Jodv told the Telegram yesterday
that the Americans would have 1900,
which comedies gain OF 1000 over the
Mouth dope in a single day. Jodv
is a good buffer, but is a poor euesscr
these DAYS. His party had 5000 in Salt
Lake City last year and 1900 in the
county: outside the city. two years ago.
IT would require more than a statement
from 'tJody' to convince any thought
full one that the "fedaral bunch" and
the county ring are able to overcome
the American lead in the county.
Smootism is doomed in Salt Lake
county. The bunch is too corrupt and
too selfish to mislead even the Mormon
people any longer.
Anyway, what's the use guessing
about the election when the Prophet
OF Zion .is managing the campaigu? If
Smoot IS prophet, seer and revela-
W. 10 HS WIS uSClared TO be and
tanned as such a couple of weeks ago.
why not have him give US the straight
dope?"
No wonder the Utah Democrats are
hot these days The amount OF living
which Apostle Smoot and hrs FMouth6
are dong against the Democrats is
enough TO induce the Democrats to 90
TO any extremes to punish the Smoot.
ties.
II you do not know that your nano
is on the registration lists, You have but
TWO days--next Tuesday and Wednes.
day-to find ont. Hundreds of omis-
sIons We're made.
Nothing said on the stump. or by the
press IN this campaign will appeal to
the common sense of young Mormons
more directly than the concise and alb
ssolutely unanswcrable argument made
by 'f Young Mormon" in Friday's Trib.
une. Not being Just yet ready3to be
turned over to the "buffetings of
Satan - in this world, the writer verv
sepsibly- requested that his name be
withheld. He has ambition, natural