The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-19
American Party Officials Mulct
Gamblers, SalOonkeepers and
Women of Streets, and City
Is Thrown Wide Open.
"H0NEST" GEORGE SHEETS
DON'T DISTRIBUTE MONEY
Hundreds of Dollars of Blood
Money Disappears Before
Reaching Campaign Man.
ayers and Strife Is in the Air,
ST0CKADE BEING GUARDED

Contributions to the American party ad-
ministratiOn from gamblers and saloon
men and women of the underworld were
resumed yesterday. and the gambling
games all over the business district OF
Salt Lake we're opened again yesterday
afternoon and last night under full pro-
lection of the police.
PatrOlmen in uniform passed in and out
of the saloons where gambling games
We're IL full blast, and the harvest of coin
which the gamblers are dividing with the
city administration is being gathered as
fast as an army of sharpers and cappers
can gather it in.
The gambling element Of salt Lake has
been assured by Martin +. Mulvey their
leader, that there will be no interference
so long as they support the city admin
istratlOn in the substantial manner Of
contributing 500 q day and support the
ticket on which Mulvey is running for the
city council
A part of this fund is being. used under
the direction of Honest" George Sheets
in caring for the small army of
macquereaux and Migrants which is be-
ing housed by the American party in the
business district TO be voted like so many
proxies at the coming city election, The
powers higher up know better than To
allow Honest" George to distribute this
money, but they allow the chief of de
tectives to check the disbursements to
his friends
Fer, Campaign Fund.
The contributions of the gamblers are
supposed to go to the campaign fund for
which J. E. DaTmeT is getting 81 800
month to spend in the interests of ]. s.
BraESfOrd, NJ. +. MulVey and the other
candidates on the American party ticket.
The system of collecting blood money Is
50 complicated, however, that only a com
paTatiyely small proportion is finding its
way into the hands of Darmer and the
campaign managers. This leak is causing
no small amount of friction al headuuar-
tiers. where all of the $500 day could be
used conveniently in giving jobs TO Iipp-
man workers who have not yet been
brought in line for BransfOrd.
One little campaign contribution to the
American party amounting TO $500 is
still tied up, and Darmer has no prospect
Of ever seeing the money. This S5,400 is
the amount put up By the 30 saloons
which were refused licenses by the city
council until they had paid their assess
ments to the campaign fund. UnfOrtu-
nately for the American campaign man
ayers, this money was paid by the saloon
men to a former member of the inner cir
Gle, who Is at present decidedly out OF
harmony with the BransfOTd element. ana
up to last night J. Z. DaTmeT had not
seen a dollar of the $500 which the sa-
loon men generously advanced after their
licenses had been held up for a week or
two by the Americans in the city council.
There is another little item OF g 600
which the American city committee has
collected which has been turned over to
Darmer to use in his campaign to assist
Tom Kearns in purifying the homes" Of
Salt Lake. This money was collected
from the owners of the gambling devices
found in every saloon and cigar store IN
Salt Lake Months ago there was an at
tempt to force the operators Of these ma
chimes to pay a license for each one
operated and, pending the decision" Of
the former police judge regarding the
status of the machines, the money was
kept intact
Money Now In Fund.
It was thought for time that this mon
ey might be returned to the owners Of
the gambling machines, but about three
weeks ago when Mayor J. s. Bransford
gave his word that gambling might be
carried on in every saloon and cigar store
in the city, this 5000 was turned into the
American campaign fund.
The real contributors to the graft fund
of the American party are the victims Of
the crooked games which are being con-
Quoted under the direction of Mulvey,
candidate for the city council from the
Sheets chief of the detective force, and
the real head Of the Salt Lake police de
partment. Mayor BTansford is aware OF
the conditions that exist and the occasion
al orders TO clean up which have come
from his office have all been supplanted
by the order that anything goes SO long
as the price is paid.
Among the public gambling games that
were running yesterday under police pro-
lection were those at the F'leur-de-Lis sa-
loon in Main street; Cliff House bar
room and room No upstairs: Ragan'a
hotel. Combination saloon. East Second
South street; over Mulvey's saloon, East
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