The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-29
THE AMERICAN PARTY's BEST
CAMPAIGN DOCUMENT.


BILE for that utterance He knows His partners in
it know But we can say safely that it is the best
campaign document for the American party that
has been produced in the present campaign.
We don't say who did it. but will say that he
was very much more DESTROYS of American party
victory than the victory of any other party now
before the people of Salt Lake.
We don't say who he is, but do say that he
was-and is-very much DESTROYS of the defeat
of the Republican party than for the defeat of any
other party
And in his literary labors for political treaehery
and municipal misrue. he has employed just about
many of the arts of the decever can be crowd
ed into small a space.
There is the initial statement on the front page:
There is but fusion ticket-wallace heads it."
That is utterly untrue The Republican ticket is
aso-and in a far better sense-a fusion ticket.
DEcEIvING THE PEOPLE.
Here is another untruth in the circular The
Citizens-Democratic ticket, containing the names
of two Democrats and three Republicans, will be
designated the official ballot the Democratic
ticket"
The Citizens party is organization of itself
Its chairman and its committee have been most ac-
tive throughout the campaign They may relish the
statement that they have TO existence. But men
who know the A B c of politics know the Citizens
party is party. 1t has made trouble enough to
establish the fact of it's existence. And the So
names of two Democrats and three Republicans, +"
actually contains the names of two Citizens two
, Democrats and one Republican.
Every who follows the campaign knows
and who regards his word will deny it-that
the three Observation-Disclosures. Democratic
and Ctizens-heId their separate and Independent
organizations And backed by the Citizens
more Republicans than they Demo-
Gratis They were Citzens-opposed to the Repub-
lcan party as much as TO any other.
We said that frOnt-page statement of the circu-
lar is a falsehood. Turn to the back page, and you
get confirmation There you will find the words:
Remember the Democrats have ticket in the
field which exclusively Democrats. THEY
HAVE FUSED IN GOOD FAITH WITH THE RE
PUBL1CANs" After that what will be thought of
the who says the Wallace ticket is the only
fusion ticket?
And little further Every man informed and
honest knows the Republicans present a fusion
ticket quite as genuinely composed of men formerly
differing in political faith is any other On the
general Republican ticket are two men of the Cfti-
party-and they are not Republicans at all
They themselves dsclaim it. They themselves de-
clare they are Citizens. And in order to get one
Republican on the ticket which will be called DEM
ocratic. the Republicans have placed two men from
the Citizens party. That is fusion in the general
ticket-and fusion in good faith.
AND FUSION IN THE WARDS.
Then in the wards. there is Joseph f. Hyde
Democrat. on the Republican ticket in the First
There is John Holley, Democrat for the council in
the Third There is Joseph Kimball Democrat, for
the council from the Fourth; and John NJ. Knight
Democrat for the council from the Fifth.
What shall you say of the who will try to
deceive the people with the statement that There
is but fusion ticket, and Wallace heads ft?" He
isn't telling the truth, is he?
The circular is open to further criticism in its
statement that There are two ways of defeating
fusion and reform in this campaign: BY VOTING
THE REPUBLICAN TICKET, and by voting the
American ticket" The capitals are in the circular
Can anything clearly show the desire of that
circulars author to help the American and defeat
the Republican ticket2
Then there is the closing section of the circular
There is the statement: 1.-THE following are a few
Of the prominent Republicans who give their hearty
support to the Wallace fusion ticket" And there
follows the OF fifty men. of whom have
been recognized as Republicans in the past-some of
whom true and stanch Republicans today. And
If there is a man among them who believes that a
for the Republican ticket is a vote against re-
form, he should stand up like a man and say So IF
there be among them who thinks-as the crcu-
lar states-that Republican in this campaign
Is for graft in city affairs is against peace or
against progress he should declare himself
In addition, it is a fact that most Of the fifty
men whose names are there printed were deceived
into signing; that the of many were secured
by false pretense-and you may take whatever view
YOU like those words One of them it is pretend
ed by the author the circular and his friends is
the George A. Smith who is apostle OF the Nor
church, and that fact is used by them to coeree
followers Of that faith support of the so-caIIed
fusion ticket. The George A Smith in that list
played up by the Tribune as Apostle George A
Smiths not Apostle George A. Smith at all The
latter is a Republican, true blue and dependable
And he openly declares his intention to vote the
Republican ticket at next Tuesdays election
NOT A WORTHY EFFORT.
The whole effort of the men who prepared that
list of fifty names has been to persuade the people
that the leaders-indeed the very presdency-of the
Mormon church was DESTROYS and insistent on every
Mormon voting the Wallace ticket. That is abso-
lutely pretense without foundation The Herald
Republican has held from the beginning that the
presence of the American party in the field is not
neeessary-wth all its hatred and all its intolerance
BECAUSE THE MORMON CHURCH IS NOT
INTERFERING IN POLITICAL AFFAIRS And
here in this Wallace circular is the false pretense
that that is untrue; that the church is debating
On that we beg to present statement from Thurs
days Deseret Evening News, the organ and au-