The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-16
FOR a sMoOT LEGISLATURES

lt is plain that the Smootites ar,
making their main fight this yeor :,
obtain Smoot Legislature. tbrougt
which tho apostle NAV be rc
'uincd to the Senate. In pursuance of
inns determination, they arc conductipg
tne CAMPAIGN against the interests of
JNr' lalt for the Prcsidencv. and tbo,.
ai% deVofnc the strength Of their cYort
TO NC election of their Legislative
Inc handicap which was nIocod 49,.
.D0 ,,'.- % the Smooiite party
'"' o"u.y hereby they arc
pledged through theh conntv nlatfo-m
adopted, TO rob thi, 49,.
property and two depal nnn+s - ~.
municipal government. is h~Hna ua.,.
much. still, the Smootites n
by concentrating their effoH,. D%'
pecially on the Legislative tick. :.
this county, the people may forget ~
those legislators are pledged to
the way of stealing, and thus give then
hope of smuggling in their tools, who
will vote TO return Apostle Smoot "a
the Seuate
But 5moot himselt>is heavy load.
and though tho stress It the effort by
the chur,h Republican lartv in this
county will be devoted especially TO the
election of the Smoot legislature.
tho handicap will be hard 20 over
come, Smool himself is a pretts. tough
proposition to put before the leople
for their votes. The Republican Slatc
convention did not dare TO prupose
him as its candidate if it had tbs
voters would have deserted the church
Republican standard by the thousands.
But they arc pretty apt to deseit Just
the same now, since it is apparent that
Smoot is the church candidate for the
Senate, and that no one lse is
talked of.
The election OF church Republican
Legislatpre- means Sr,->h for tur Ssn-
ate. And that is a pretty bitter dose
to administer to the people of the State
of Utah.
The election OF the church Republi-
can Legislative ticket in this county
means the stealing from Salt Lake City,
which comprises two-thirds of Salt
Lake county. Of its hre and police de-
partments and the property appertain-
ing thereto, which the people IN this
city have bought and paid for through
their local city tax levy: that is, it
the Constitution can be violated III
tho interest of theft. it would be
Just as much theft to steal this prop
erty as il would be for any thief
TO steal any other property from an
honest man. And yet the church Re
publican legislative candidates arc
pledged by their platform to that theft
These are the two handicaps which the
church Republicans have to overcome
in this county; first, the odlum oi
Smoot and Smootism; and, second, the
proposed robbery Of this city, as abso
lutely pledged by the candidates on the
cnllrcn rcptubrlcdn pIatIorm.
And under this black, piratical haG
the church Republicans appeal 10 the
people of this city for their support
Ii is the process of the highwayman n
with tho assumption that tho victim
will be glad to be held up and robbed
But those who enjoy being held up anC
robbed are few, and the people OF thi:
city are not among that number. They
don t want to be robbed, and they arr
going to resent the proposition TO rol
them The double handicap of Smoot
ism and robbery will destroy the churci
Republican case with all voters who arr
at once patriotic and honest.