The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-04
FEDERAL BUNCH'S DOOM.

The result of Tuesdays election is
the warning ot doom to the ''Fcderal
bunch - There can be no doubt of the
bitter feeling Of the general public, not
only of this city but of the Stale,
against that monstrOus set Of political
bosses and marplots. They have made
themselves so offensive they arc so
bumptious. 50 mscrupulous, so AFRO
CANT. so careless. so utterly contempt
uous of the public opinion and Of the
public 5 wants. that they have fallen
into u disfavor from which they can
never recover.
They dug their own grave last fall
when they forced secretly the incon-
aruous alliance between the church and
the liquor interests of the State. Not
that the leaders Of the church are espc'
callv antagonistic TO the liquor traf'
ic. because those church leaders have
shown the utmost diligence always in
protecting the liquor business Of the
drug department. of the Il. G. NJ. L., and
that concern is reputcd 10 sell more
liquor than any other establishment IN
Utah; and then, there is the Smoot
Drug Company, which runs drink
house in connection with its drug busl-
ness at Provo. and which must also
be let alone Still, there is no ques.
tion but that the prevailing sentiment
of the Mormon people revolts against
any open and Scandalous alliances be.
tween the church and The liquor inter
ests as such And when TO the scandal
of that corrupt negotiation and polit-
ical bargain was added the insult of
the +" Federal bunch organ 10 the pro-
hibitionlsts of the Republican party
that such prohibiiionists were not, in
fact, Republicans at all. the cup of
bitterness ovcrflowcd and State CON
vcntion in remoUstrancc was held.
There is no doubt but that The capitol
proposition was defeated at the clec-
tion last June by reason of the bitter
ness of the voters of the State against
the Federal bunch. 1t was not so
/ much hostility to Salt Lake. although
few dcmogogucs played upon that
] bOSlllItN W nc ulIIO9l l'b''i''' NN''h'
as il was resentment 10 the Federal
bunch' bossism. and its uuscrupulous,
arbitrary methods, that caused the peo-
pie TO vote against the capitol.
The "Fcdcral bunch has put itself
into what it supposed TO be position
Of impregnablo power in Utah, grasp
inc in the first place by the aid OF
! the church, the control Of the Rcpub-
! lican organization. boilers that they
were. They were untrue 10 their party,
/ boltcd It's nominations. and Yet they
persuaded the church politicians TO put
them in control of IT. Since obtaining
! that power. they have ridden over the
people numerically and without the
least rcmorsc. They set up and tbev
Lpull down 10 suit themselves. without
any regard 10 the popular will, lust
as they did with respect to the tick
cts in the recent municipal campaign
i'm this city They set aside thc pco.
pic s choice in nominations Just as If
no choice had been made, or as if the
people had nothing al all 10 do with
elections or with the selection of can
didatcs, Everything mad 10 conform fo
the ideas Of that "buuch, or its mem
bers would neither work nor play.
That "bunch, mass Of boilers
from their party nominations, were put
in control of the party by the church
politicians al the next State convention
after the municipal election in this city
in 1903 II is probable that history
may repeat itself, and that the revolt
ers from the ''Federal bunch con
troll in the Republican party who united
with the Citizens movement in oul
municipal election Just closed. Will by
the same church power be put in con
troll of the Republican organization
next wear. and the Federal bunch
will bc retired. In such case subslan
tiaI rctribution will have boen wrought
and IN impudcnt lot of scurvy incom
pctcnts and impostors viii be oustcC
from the control which they have
: abused and a party leadership whcl
they have just forfeited 10y theil
bigotry, arrogance, sehshncss, and ar
bitrary disregard of every influence
: every power, and every person ju th,