The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-20
THINGS D|FFERENT 7 IN
NEWSPAPER WORLD
Sm00tItes Cannot Deceive Pub.
lie as Has Been Done i'm
the Past.
INTELLIGENT CITIZENS KNOW
MENDACITY OF THE BUNCH"
General Disgust at Nasty Work
OF Scarlet Headed Smo0t
Organ.
(BY MAC.)

| (BY MAC)
Ihe federal bunch is dealipr with
an entirely different constituency these
Hnys than when their principal mouth.
piece was the malodorous, misd;rected
lnter.Mormou Republican.
That newspaper had been established
TO enable halfdozen political charla-
tans OF The type of Smoot. Callister.
fussy Jimmy, Mutton Bill, Kinky
Booth and Harry Joseph to unload their
bile on this community and professedly
to - break the Tribune 1T secured a
clientele composed of peanut polit.
claus and bigoted saints who were look.
ing Tor a cheap newspaper and would
not pay the regular price for the News
If they could get something with apos-
tolc sanction for Hfty cents. There.
fore, when the 'MouthD lied about
proposition, II. generally speaking,
stItnency into the polling places like
dumb brutes are led into the shanbles.
| Now, however. there is 4 difference.
Several thousand of the readers of the
Herald arc trying 10 satisfy themselves
with the product of the recently formed
newspaper fusion, called by some, for
lack of more appropriate name. the
| ~ I'u'u VI iue DdIy fleNlDTTn3Gp.
| But the intelligent ones arc not follow.
ing Smoot's new newspaper policy.
| They know better. They know that
the ''EI-R' is lying. They know that
1t IS vile They are beginning to look
upon its nasty front page and its uas-
tier editorial columns with adherence.
Hundreds who swore they would never
do so arc becoming readers of the Trib-
une. Many of these do not like the
Tribune S political policy, but they do
know that it Is a reputable newspaper.
The policy of the "Daily Hemorrh
age is Strengthening Mayor Brans-
ford and the American party with cacn
day. 1t is spondingly decimating
the ranks of tbc church Republicans,
and it is driving decent Democrats into
| open rebellion. The old Herald patrons
had convictions. As rule they were
m Independent class. Now that they
! see the purpose Of Smoot and the fed
| cral bunch, as mirrorcd daily by the
pages of Smoot' newspaper venture.
they find their thoughts drifting grad
ually but surely into the channel
through which courses the sentiments
Of a large majority OF the best mcu
and women aud the most intelligent
men and women of this great city.
They arc becoming Americans of neces-
Sity-AmerIcans fer protection
Americans because they know that no
city has ever been builded on such rot.
such deceit, such diabolical political
charlatanrv as they have witnessed
eyude from the church-controllcd news
papers during the past ten days,
One OF the latest hemoTrhagcs Of
Smoot S scarlctheaded sheet contains Il
decluratio that former Senator Thorn
as Kearns has ''time and again since
the convention of the American party
l.. 4 a. .
we win this election. my party viii
issue more bonds-and it will be II two
million bond issue this time, TOO.
Especial emphasis was also given 10
the words ''my party"
In the first place there is no man in
Salt Lake who knows better than
Thomas kearns that it would be impos
sible TO bond the city for two million,
and, of course, he has never given eX-
preston TO any sentiment of this kind.
Besides, if there were to be a boud is
sue or any public indebtedness locally,
it would affect Thomas Kearns ten
times more personally, than every mem.
Der of the federal bunch, including
the controlling authorities OF the dom.
naut church, the trustecs-lD.trust and
twenty five other of the most wealthy
and active supporters of the apostolic
way of conducting local political at
fairs. Mr.. kcarns Is among the most
progressive and cntcrprSing citizens OF
Salt Lake, and he shows his faith iu
this city by investing practically all
his fortune in things calculated 10
make Salt Lake greater and more beau
tiful
IT he has ever made use of tho term
"mv party it has been done with
tho same spirit and in the same manner
as any other citizen who might claim
allegiance to any organization. As
matter Of fact, and of general knowl-
edge among Americans, Mr.. kcarus has
received less consideration al the hands
of the party than the most humble
worker within its ranks, Not a single
appointment 10 Office has been made
at his suggestion Ho rarely attends
American party meetings. knowing full
well that his enemies and the enemies
'hargc him with undue activity. He
mas received no favorS that have been
denied 10 any other man and there is
not III active man in the party but
>nows tins TO he absolutely true
To charge the expression such as
my party" TO Mr.. kearns. Us sug-
,estiye of ownership. which is silly, is TO
Jay that when one speaks of E'mv coun
rv. "my people. 'mv Cod" or
my like expression, carries also with
1 ownership, And il is hard to under
tuud what advantage Smoot s NASTY
newspaper hopes 10 gain by paradlng
hngS so silly as this.
Some local artist might make
lever drawing of the apostolic senator
,ilh his body cntwincd by . monster
a!pont in fhe act Of striking It's fangs
lto the political auostle S vltals. II
his serpent were labeled The Cop
erhcad. tbc picture would illustrate
nth impelluG force thc truthfulness
{ the local situation.
The coprrrhead Democrat who is the
difor of Smooi : so,called Republican,.
certainly playing havoc with tho
posile's hope for genuine public favor
, this state The nasty work of the