The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-22
LINEUP Of PARTIES
IS STILL IN THE AIR
Those Most Familiar With Stu.
alton Cannot Forecast Per-
sOnnel of Fusion Tickets.
GENERAL DISGUST AMONG
THOSE OF OLD PARTIES
Remarkable Showing of Build
ing Activity During Ameri-
can Administration.
BY MAC.

BY MAC
IL there Is any man, no matter how
thoroughly Informed he is of tho kaleid
oscoplc affairs in political circles dur
lug the past two weeks. who can tell
Just what sort of situation must be-
confronted by so.called Democrats and
church Republicans at the polls, there
is a nice prize for him al the count.
ing-room of The Tribune.
For j while it looked as though the
special committee of the Democrats had
outwitted the ''fcdcral bunch. > But
now Ii looks as though the ssfodprsl
bunch had put the Democrats more
deeply into the hole than they have
ever been. If there is TO bo a fusion
between Democrats and church Repuh-
lirauS IL IS very apparent that the
church Republicans have much the best
Of the bargain
And think of tho folly Of swapping,
trading, dilly-dallying and hluf1ing that
Is going on at the beck and call of The
political trickstcrs for the past several
days Nothing like it was ever wit
messed, even in Utah. Nothing like il
is possible anywhere else.
In the first place. what is there in
local conditions that viii Justify Dem.
ocrats and Republicans meeting on con-
mon ground? And in the next place
where is there political sense in carry-
ing on such bargain until the people
| are called on 10 90 to the polls and
cast their ballots,
Is there any wonder that intclIi-
gent men and women are discusted!
is there any wonder thgt tho canvasscrS
find so many doubtfuls2n Why. there
isu { 800 orthodox Mormons in Salt
.ulsn (ItN- t,1aNs Ubn l.,,,,x- .I
they will support. Even the bishops
and The teachers haven 't got the tip
vet. Whereas, the rule has been that
the 'whspcrcrs' were busy long be
fore the closing week of the campaign
In studying the records of the city.
IN which is kept the expenditures for
public improvements, it viii be found
that there has been paid out for street
paving. curbs aud cutters. during the
| entire life of Salt Lake CITY. S2,533-
! 6uI02 Mind Won, this is since the
! pioneers came into the valley aud cs
tablished city here SiXty-two Years
age
Of that amount 81 500. .452 .Os were
nine months of American rule And
there has been no increase IN the citv
tux levy for three years. either.
The sidewalk Improvements for the
entirc period Is $l.l23, 3,073.T2, and Of
| this sum S750.527l6 worth OF work
was done by Americans.
For sewers $l.S69, ,59S.S7 is the total
cost; with 1915, .5O.6I credited to the
American administration.
And so the American record runs,
and the people sec where the money
was expended The people know they
have got the goods. They know that
they have got good work-bettor work
on an average, experts claim, than i
done in any city, aud The price is much
less than other cities pav.
Everyone knows that the American
party is making a great city ont of Salt
Lake, and two more wears of American
rule. with such men as John Bransford
al the head Of the administration and
n councimanic ticket as clean and able
and progressive rs has been named by
the Americans, viii put Salt Lake ~
the class where ii properly belongs
il the American campaign commit
tee had employed tho criminal editor
of the Smoot newspaper at large sal.
airy TO work for American success, and
had outlined the character of work such
Is is witnessed in the columns of ',thc
daily hemorrbagc these DAYS, The
money would have bceu well spent,
OF all the traitors and bUuglcrs and
bluudcrbusscs which political organize.
tious throughout the country have had
10 contend with, Leroy Armstrong
would be given The chief premium BY
any board OF awards.
lie so wrecked the Democratic party
IN Tippecanoe county, Indiana, short
time before coming to Utah, thai 1t rs
now spoken of as II political Joke He
first split the TippCcanoe county DcnOc-
racy into factions, got the factions
fighting among themselves. and for self
preservation they bultcd to tho Repub-
iicans. Leroy himself got so deeply in
volvcd personally and 6nancially that
he is said 10 have left town between
two Jays. From the last reports the
Lafavcfte constable was looking for him
10 attach some personal property which
he had mortgagcd and which he had
suugglcd out o1 the state.
He had not been in Utah long he,
foro he mad thc Republicans divided
into two factions. tho Smootltes aud
the insurgents, The insurgents be read
cut Of the party aud abused them t,ke
uickpocllcts, His newspaper stole $1,000
from tbc taxpayers. and when hepub-
licau Comfy Attorney Lyon sought tG
protect the taxpayers. Lyon was set
iIpnu by Armstrong with denoniacal
fcrocity.
He wrecked the Intcrmountain Re
publican and almost broke its promot'
crs. forcing the paper iuto a condlt,on
that compelled conso!loa'luG WIN ihH
Herald hoping 10 check the financial
drain aud gain rcspcctabillty.
But the poor old Herald soon lost
all traces of It's former self and most
of its readers, aud the hypbcaated sheet
has been grovclliug in the slime and
,u the mire until the people Of Salt
Lake hold their noses when they pass
The " U.R doors.
Evidently the criminal editor mar
.omethinr in the way of confidence
Wrapped ur in his bosom that protects
i'm in his sauctunl SanctoruT. or Smoot
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