The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-30
THEY HAVE HURT THE WHOLE
STATE OF UTAH.

could have written that Wallace circular issued in
thousands, which by direct and unavoidable impl-
cation commands the Mormons to vote for the Dem
ocratic ticket No man. friend of the Mormons,
and possessing good judgment, could have pretend
ed that his church had so decIared-when it is alb
solutely true that the church had taken side at
all in the controversy-and viii take none
No willing the Republican ticket to have
a fair chance at the election would have written
that circular because the effect of it-wherever
successful at all-is to take votes away from the
Republican councmane ticket and give them to the
so-called Democratic ticket-although that action
helps the candidate not a whit.
wALLACEs ELECTION AN uNPOssIBILITY.
There is no more chance for the election of Wal
lace than for the melting of the mountains. By no
possibility could he have hoped for election The
thing is wholly without and beyond the limits of the
attainable But there chance for the election
Of council in accord with the policies of the united
parties. a vote for the whole Murdoch ticket
much vote for the fusion candidates for council
vote for the whole Wallace ticket could have been
To take Republicans from their ticket and make
them vote the Democratic ticket would add nothing
TO the council candidates, for they both
tickets. And surely every with any perception
at all must know that the non-MormOns reading
that circular would find reason to believe the charge
that the Aormons were trying to control the cleo
ton; to dictate the party for which the Momons
must vote That conclusion would certainly drive
non-M Mormon Republicans back into the American
party.
THEY HELPED THE KEARNS CAUSE.
So that the circular could not have helped Wal
lace. It's only possible effect must be to hurt the
Republican mayOralty ticket without all helping
the fusion council ticket. There is conclusion re-
naming except that the author of the circular meant
to hurt the Republican cause And that means the
helping Of the American party in this cam
paign.
Here is another evidence of the bad faith of the
who made the circular: They printed in their
list of fifty Republicans who made to say they
favored the Wallace ticket, the name of George A.
Smith-and they took that circular directly to the
Office Of the Lake Tribune. And the Tribune
next morning published the circular, declaring the
George A. Smith of the list to be Apostle George A
Smith. Now the Tribune declares Citizens Demo-
cratic party representative declared in delivering the
circular that the mentioned is George A. Smith,
apostle
HURRIED TO THE TRIBUNE.
In the same article in which the Tribune made
that false statement-for it is false Apostle George
A. Smith is a Republican, and has openly declared
his intention to vote the Republican city ticket-in
that article the Tribune took up name after
through the long list of fifty, and gave the
Mormon church office held by each Note that
Man by in the list declared to be composed of
prominent Republicans who pledged themselves
against the Republican ticket. the corresponding
church office was presented to the public!
What the evident intent of that? To make
the Mormon reader understand that his church su-
perors were against the Republican ticket. Nothing
less. and nothing
TRYING TO INVOLVE THE CHURCH.
But note the further fact: The Tribune declares
the Citizens Democratic representatives reported
that the George A. Smith mentioned the list is
Apostle George A Smith It is then fair conclu-
sion that the same authority gave the Tribune the
of its impressive information added to the list
of names the office held by the named.
Why add president of SUch-and-Sueh stake" TO
the nance Why add Bishop to the name? Why
add Bishops counsellor to the name? You good
people know. 1t was to influence the Mormon voters
10 desert the Republican ticket vote the Wallace
ticket
And the bad faith of that course is gratutous.
Such change could not benefit the fusion council
ticEet-and it could not elect Wallace. Nothing I'M
der the sun could elect Wallace.
THE NEWS REPUDIATEs THEM
Against that pretense of church influence read
again the Deseret Evening News in its editorial
declaration Thursday of the present week:
while This subject we say. for general
whatever ia the campaign either side the
other. some church members are Democrats and
some Republicans.
The Tribune knew the value of adding the church
office of the in the list. It knew the effect of
using that statement that apostle, always known
a Republican and fifty other men nearly all OF
whom church officials, all Republicans in the
past. going to abandon the Republican ticket
would hurt Murdoch. The Tribune knew it, and in
stantly published the details which it now declares
given it by the manage of the Wallace ticket
THE REWARD OF THEIR TREACHERY.
Further. after the Tribune made its publication
tending to dHive Mormons away from Murdoch and
to the support of Wallace, not a Wallace man lifted
voice to correct the inaccuraey of the circular.
Not of them. They didn't disclaim the alleged
position Of apostle in the Mormon church because
they knew his presence in that list with high of
fee asserted would add strength to the argument
against Murdoch votes would add strength to the
argument in favor of Wallace votes. And never till
the News bravely called the Tribune's attention 10
the fact that Apostle George A Smith is not in the
list, and that he still is Republican, did the organ
of intolerance and hatred reveal source Of its
Information. And then it charged the Wallace peo-
pie themselves with declaring an apostle had Joined
the Wallace forces
Gentlemen this circular is the work of the Wal
lace crowd It's evident purpose is defeat the can
didates on the Republican ticket It's evident pur-
pose is to beat the fusion councmanic ticket Marx
that With all the pretense of wanting fusion here
their one nracffcoI effort In the roffcaI