The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-30
THE RoAR OF THE MOUTH.

The roar of the "MouthN indicates
lis terror at the prospects of the '-Fcd-
cral bunch" ticket being deprived Of
its hoped for position of being "neNt
10 tho head = at the oneoming election.
That roar was made yesterday morning
at the Democrat Citizens fusion dodgcr.
The dcnunciation of that little insinuat
ing document was both loud. long. and
bitter.
Now. of course. ii is true that the
fusion dodgcr WAS rather an absurd lit
tic composition. " is inconsistent, and
in way humorous, but it does not
deserve the malignant and bitter abuse
that was poured out upon it Yesterday
morning by the organ Of the ''fcdcral
bunch " That organ is especially bit
ter mt The idea of tho fusion dod9cr be
ing signed by fifty men, ''most Of whom
have been recognized as Republicans in
the past some of whom are true and
staunch Republicans today" and the
wall of the organ indicates that its
party is badly crippled and lis prospects
blightcd.
Now. there is no doubt but that the
so-callcd Republicans expected to
oycrwhclm completely the Democrat
Citizen fusionists after bringing them
into contempt by the smallncss of the
vote that ticket would poll and into
the dcrisiou of the public by reason
Of the futility of the political move that
they engineered Bnt the prospects
have changed since the reputation of
the iFcdcral bunch ticket by the
Gfty Republicans referred to. The
support of those fifty Republicans. >
together with ;hc plain bias of the main
church organ in favor Of fhc Democrat
Citizens ticket, indicates that the
church has determined TO withdraw its
sunport from the E'FcdcTal bunch
ticket at this election. Hence the wall.
If this is done, rs the prospect now IS
that il will bc done. the "FcdcraI
bufchh ticket Will be close competitor
with the Socialists. and in about the
same class. when the returns are in.
The strength Of the = Federal buneh'
has always been in the church support
it has received. 1t has received this
support, all the time denying that 1T
had il, and all the time protesting that
the church was not in politics. II knew
better, of course, all the time; but il
knew thai 1t pleased the church leaders
to have il appear that they were not
i'm politics when all the time they were
quietly controlling politics. Perhaps q
good many of the ''Fcderal bunch =
politicians have in the course of years
persuaded themselves by constant rcitcr.
alton, that the church is not in pol
itics; that is, that there was no church
influence brought to bear against them.
Now that the influence appears TO be
directed against them. they arc suddenly
waking up. aud while still protesting
! that there is no church influence they
arc shaking in their shoes at the pros.
lpcct of that influence being used against
them this wear
The wall of the - Mouth - is simply
! the dcspairing cry Of The defeated and
bafiicd politician. who seeing his chief
support fail. 3 support that he has con
stautly dcniod receiving, gives up hope
and goes crazy. But the mystery is
| il as the "Mouth" still protests, the
church IS not in politics, why such au
uproar is made about this manfcsta-
tion of church activity in politics. If
there is nothing to il. why make fuss
about it, But il, on The other hand,
there is something TO if, il it is an ac-
tual menace, if the church is in fact
! i'll politics and is interfering this year