The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-26
MUST FEAR THE
OPENING OF BOOKS
Church Republicans Are Center
Ing Every Effort TO Save Salt
Lake County Ticket.
DO NOT WANT LIME
LIGHT ON TRANSACTIONS
Everything Is to Be Sacrificed
in Order TO Save Six
County Offices.


but it is now in the open. Presidents
Of stakes, bishops Of wards, counselors
to bishops, elders, teachers and mission
aries are all NJ work in desperate en-
dcayor to round up the Mormon people
and, regardless of their political views,
compel them 10 voto for the church Re
publican county ticket.
Everything else is to go by the board
IN the desperate efforts being made TO
ticket in Salt Lake county. The legis-
latIve, state and national tickets are
TO be sacrificed If only the clerk, sheriff.
assessor. county attorney and commits
sloners can be saved TO the church Re-
publicans,
Must Be Something Wrong.
So anxious are they about the cleo
tion of these officers that people who
have been alleged against the officials
named are now convinced that there
must be something wrono. something
that the gang Is afraid TO have made
public, so solicitous is the church crowd
to have the county ticket OF Salt Lake
county elected
In various parts OF Salt Lake City
and county. Sunday. missionaries were
at work on behalf OF the church Re
publican ticket IN Salt Lake county.
Ihosc missionaries pleaded with and
begged the members Of the church 20
vote the church Republican ticket. When
the pleading avai]ed not. coercion and
threats were resorted 10.
Missionaries Are at Work.
In The region about Taylorsvillc all
the past week school children have been
loaded down with church Republican
literature aud instructed 10 take it home
to their parents. Sunday two men and
high counselor devoted the day 10
advising the saints 10 vote the church
Republican county ticket. And this is
true oil q number of other ecclesiastical
wards,
In Salt Lake City, SUNDAY. there was
SSpry, Sutherland; Callister and Fred
Price participated. This was held at
the corner of Third South and Main.
Finally Tom Hull and Fussy Jimmy got
into the game, when Sutherland and
Price retired. and the duartette remain
ing proceeded north toward the Latter
day Saints university, Barratt hail or
where n priesthood meeting was no
doubt being held, and where additional
instructions regarding the rounding up
OF the Mormon people and edicts TO
compel. them TO vote the church Repub.
llcan ticket were TO be given them.
AK Has Been Uplifted.
Said prominent Mormon TO The
Tribune on Sunday: "The Ak is uplift.
ed. Everything possible is 10 be done
TO save the county ticket for the party
you designate rs church Renublican.
From the manner in which the higher
officials Of the church arc WORKING 10
save the assessor. it is an omen admis-
sion that the charges which The Trib
unc has made as TO the wa the people
have been mill1ed. and the i. G. NJ. |. 4
and tho Deseret News favored in the
Tho authorities would rather have
the county clerk, sheriff. commissioners
Smoot, hence the legislative ticket is
10 be sacrificed, in fact evervthing
after the roundup and corrallipg
of the church Democrats for the Re
publican county ticket is 10 be thrown
aside, and all kinds of trades will be
made IN order to get votes for tbe
county ticket.
Are Afraid of Exposure.
''In view of the hard work being
done to save the Offices I have named |
and the anxiety manifest upon the part |
Of the church Republican leaders. /
am certain that something is being |
covered up, and that the election Of the |
American ticket would mean an ey |
posure when the books are opened in !
the county offices and the limelirbt !
thrown upon them that will astound |
Salt Lake Taxpayers.
In the matter of the fees for
which the clerk receive.
and which have never been Iurnnd |
over to the county. the way the sheriff "a
>ffice is managed aud the many fbinos
lone III the commissioners court that /
leed an opening up of the books. shows
ne that something is concealed the-n
hat the Republicans arc afraid 10 have
Known.
Machine Leaves no Record.
~ am g Latter.day Saint, as Won
yell know, and / have always been q
Republican, but I am not with that
rewd TINS year, The voting machine
would pull the lever for thhe Ameri.
an ticket, for it is TO the American
'arty that the wonderful stride that
salt Lake City has taken is due. Moro
,ubic improvements have been made
ince your party took coutrol of citv
fairs than during all the past history
u the city. See what these improve
,alue OF my property five fold. Why
hould [ not vote with the Americaps7
Let tho Books Be Opened.
"Then again, why should we not have
IL accouuting' Why should not the
ool!s of the county be thrown open?
t there has been fraud committed, if
here have been defaicatiops coyered
p. if there has been graft. let ms
now why. The election Of the Ameri,
an ticket will give the opportunity.
here is q great number of saints inst
Ike me. We are Republicans, but we
ote the American ticket and will push
own the markers also for Taft. -