The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-01
VIDE BREACH IN
AMERICAN RANKS
Friends of BranSford Give Up
Hope of Landing Him
Again.
WORKING FOR cOUNCILMEN
EFFORT NOW APPEARS TO HAVE
BEEN IN VAIN.

Insignificant looking splits in the
ranks of the American party have wild
ene5 to breaches in the last two days,
which now indicate the utter rOut of
the American party at this election and
a corresponding increase in the Repub-
nean majority for every man on the
ticket. The Americans, as indicated in
the campaign speeches Of the last forty
eight hours, have given up all hope of
electing ]. S. Bransford for another
term, and they are centering their
whole remnant Of strength on the coun-
cilmanic ticket, with the vain hope of
retaining enough American party
Eenehmen in the city council TO en-
barrass James d. Murdoch as mayor.
In their hope OF maintaining control
of the city council the Americans are
counting on the continued support of
F. S. Fernstrom, who will hold over
from the Third precinct, and Fern
strom's vote for everything that savors
Of graft can be counted upon at all
times.
The Americans have given up ell
hope of electing their councilmanic tick
ct in any except the Fifth precinct, al
though they will attempt, through
trickery and fraud, to save their cOun-
cilmen from the First precinct, and
they believe tthey will be able to col
onize enough votes in the Second to
save Captain" c. H Reed for the
short term. Their efforts will be di-
rected especially toward saving Reed,
who, although a comparative stranger
in Salt Lake and not even a taxpayer,
has the prime qualification of being
an employee of the Tribune and has
demonstrated his absolute subservience
% the managers of the organ of malice
and hatred and can be trusted TO exc
cute the orders Of the inner circle with
out questioning motives or seeking more
than a small percentage of the graft.
Could Help stoekade.
Reed, like O'Donnen. has the further
qualification of living in the extreme
southeastern corner of the Second pre-
cinet, ana both can be depended on to
assist Mayor Bransford in opening the
west side stOckade Immediately after
election, and neither Reed nor O'DOn-
nell will recognize any of their con-
stituents living west Of the railroad
tracks.
1t is said Of z. G. O'DonneH that he
has as wide an acquaintance as any
business man in Salt Lake, but he
boasts that he can count his acquain-
tances in the western part of the city
on the fingers of one hand. O'Donnel,
however, is a dead one," in the par
lance Of Tom Matthews, of stockade
fame. who has been working the ten
derloin precincts for the American
party, with the promise of his old job
as private secretary to Belle London
after election. 1t was on the advice Of
Matthews that the American city COM
mittee gave up its support of O'Donnell
and informed him that he would have
to finance and manage his own hope
less campaign for reelection to the
council. The committee knew that
O'Donnelrs position in the council, as
a member of the police and prison COM
nittee, was worth a few thousand dol
lars year to him, so long as the po-
lice threw all the emergency undertake
ing business his way, and their surmise
was right
Despite the fact that the Republican
challengers have 200 to 300 names Of
Illegally registered men and women in
the Fifty-fourth district, the Americans
believe that WATERPROOF Mulvey will
be able to engineer himself through
with q safe majority for the city coun-
ell again. They contend that in his po-
sition as chief Of the red light brigade
and kingpin among the gamblers Of
Salt Lake, Mulvey will be able to put
through enough votes from his COM
the majority which the decent citizens
OF the Fifth precinct will give for John
NJ. Knight for the council.
Attitude Is Peculiar.
In his fight Mulvey's attitude is a
psychological curiosity, in that at times
the Indifferent bravado Of the profess
sional gambler gives way to a panic
which borders on hysteria. Whenever
AIulvey suffers an attack OF "cold feet"
there is another conference with his
friend, Honest George Sheets, chief
of detectives and head Of the Salt Lake
police department, and additional o.
deTs regarding the colonization in the
Commercial street district are issued
Sheets has told Mulvey and boosted to
9th ers that, with the aid Of the police
department, he can show a majority of
close to 500 votes for Mulvey in the
Fifty-fourth district alone, and he has
staked his official scalp against 10 per
cent of his collections from the women