The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-30

hour, and the affair will be one of the
most pleasant of the campaign. All
Republican workers are invited, and
the candidates will be there, too.
Mulberry Mulvey's campaign is down
to a fine point, according to his friend,
Honest" George Sheets, and the cele-
| brated sleuth of McWhirter fame is
credited with a little story yesterday,
which illustrates the close tab Mulvey
is maintaining on his supporters. The
story Honest George is relating is that
when, after his round of the gambling
games of the city, he wound up at
Mulvey's, the dimpled councilmanic
candidate for the council from the
Fifth precinct had just completed
| checking UP the sure votes he could
count for next Tuesday from the Fifty
fourth district. Mulvey, in comparing
| his figures with those of two years ago,
and checking those who had moved
away or had died, found he was off
just one vote. There was no going
home while his vote register didn't bal
ance, and Mulvey checked his figures
over again and again until, in despera-
ton he turned to Honest" George and
asked him to solve the mystery. Sheets
went over the list carefully, using the
same astUteness which he showed in
getting the men who swindled the Nc
/ Whittier brothers to return $1,000 to the
! victims and then divide the remainder
on the square, and it only took the
chief of detective force a very short
time to find where the missing vote had
gone.
1t was Jim DonaldsOn'si
|
Martin E. Mulvey threatened to with
draw from the cOuncilmanic ticket yes
| terday when he discovered that he
would have no chance to graft SIS ex-
! ira each year as a member of the wa
| ter works committee. The dimped can
didate from the Fifth precinct actually
had his resignation written out, it is
said, and only refrained from filing it
when he discovered that the time limit
had expired and J. Z. Darmer wouldn't
give him back his $500 campaign con-
tribution, anyway.
| No wonder Pat Moran is contributing
more literally than ever before to the
American party campaign fund. AS
councilman, James D. Murdoch has
prevented about $4,000 graft money
from finding its way to Pats account
| for distribution among the gang, and
the defeat of Mr.. Murdoch would be
cheap at any price, from Moran's point
of view.
When the bill of S2O, 400 for repairing
the wooden stave sewer was up before
| the city council, A. J. Davis, president
of the council, was called on to appoint
a committee to investigate Moran's lit
tie bill. This committee consisted of
T. r. Black, L. D. Martin and F. S.
Fernstrom, and A. ]. Davis knew as
well as every business man in Salt
Lake knows that Black, Martin and
FernstrOm belong to Pat Moran, and
Pats title to them is as good as the
coin any day.
Taxes in Salt Lake have not been
raised under the administration of the
American party" pipes the Kearns or
gan. The city tax in 1906 was II mills,
and now it is 13 mills.
E. G. O'Donnell, American party can
didate for the city council from the
Second precinct, completed another
round of the west side looking for some
one who was going to vote for him.
About ten minutes after O'DonneI re-
turned to Main street a man appeared
offering $50 to $50 that ]. A. Ekman
would beat O'Donnell