The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-02
MARTIN FULL OF
FIGHT IS LOOKING
FOR MR.. SEFRIT
Accused Councilman Says He
Is Going to Make the Trib-
une Eat Something.
EXPLAINS EPISODE OF
HUNDRED-D0LLAR BILL
GOT IT INL LEGITIMATE TRANsAc,
TON WITH MRS. DORA
TOPHAM.

llGN WI = ~ no EOhH
ToPHAM.
II, IN proving about the city any MEM
Der Of the inner circle Of the American
party sets eyes on Councilman L. ID. Mar
tin, that member would best take % tall
timber, for Afr. Martin Is on the warpath
with both feet. war paint. head feathers
ana q freshly sharpeued t0mahaWk. Alr.
Martin Is not discriminating iu the par
ticular member Of the inner circle whom
he hopes 10 meet. but he expresses a
preference 20 have It out with Frank Sc
fTit, who has the reputation Of being one
or the diCtarOr5 Of the party, IN addition
10 being manager OF the Salt Lake Tri-
bune
IT is all about a paragraph that sp-
peared IA the TriDune's city council report
yesterday morning that Mr. Martins ire
IS 50 thoroughly aroused. The offending
sentences read;
Councilman Martin met with the IL
Cense committee late Wednesday sf-
ternoon and Endorsed the decision OF
the committee y withhold licenses ap-
piled for by the twenty-four. After
leaving that meeting he Is alleged TO
have got into communication with a
representative Of one Of the breweries,
appeared in the council cham Der a
few hours later, exhibited a 800 bill,
with a bOastful remark. and on the
floor Of the council made an en-
phduC protest against the conlmittee's
action. And. although he VOIed in the
affirmative he gave notice that he
would move to reconsider the vote on
the adoption Of the committees re-
port 20 the next meeting.
To was the most shameful and bare
faced action that has been witnessed
81 The council chamber since the Or
ganizatiOn OF the city, and 10 those
who are familiar with the facts It was
open 10 but one construction.
Martin viii Stick.
I'll make 'em eat that" vigorously de-
Clared Mr.. Martin yesterday afternoon.
And If there isn't . retraction Of that
dirty insinuatiOn. and proper one. there
viii be something doing round these dig
gings Mark my word.
The inner circle have been trying to
read me out Of the American party ever
since the Devine matter came up. Now
j tell you that 1 refuse to be read out of
the party I won't be dictated to IN my
politics by any crowd, and 1 refuse 10 give
up my opinions OF knuckle down to any
set Of self-apponted leaders / showed
them where ] stood in the Devine affair
and I'll show them where I stand on this
license business and every other question
that I have my suspicious about and they
try to cram down my neck.
Martin Takes a Hand.
'T'u tell about that meeting yesterday
and that hundred dollar bill. I got word
and ] telephoned CrabUree that 7 wanted
10 be heard on the saloon license matter
He told me there was to be a meeting
Wednesday afternoon, and ] made it
point 10 be there. Besides the mem bers
of the license committee who were pres
ent, there were Sefrit, Judge Darmer and
G. ]. Crabtree. ] guess they were pretty
much surprised to see me.
When they pulled out their list Of ap-
plicants for saloon licenses / noticed that
they had marked among the brewery con-
trolled saloons conta & Mafteo, S37 West
South Temple. Well I happened to know
all about this particular place Five or
six months ago complaint was made about
the people who were then running the
place about selling liquor on Sunday The
place was closed up and afterWaFd
changed hands. The owner Of the prop
erty came TO me and asked me to look at
the building with a view of ascertaining
whether or not the structure would stand
an additional story. in which case he said
he had an opportunity to sell. 1 found
that Il would. and the sale was made. The
additional story is finished. all except the
plaEtering
THE saloon people have invested SIS
600 in the enterprise. They own the
ground. the building a big stock and the
fixtures. That they should be marked
brewery owned was sumner for ME,
and 1 figured that If this kind Of business /
was going on with reference to that par
ticular place, there doubtless must be 9TH
ers.
Would Take Snap judgment.
at first they had thirty-seven marked
for rejection Finally / got that cut to
twenty-four, but not without fighting for
every inch. At the end, I said that 7
would be satisfied with the report, pro-
vided that the proprietOrs or representa- |
tives of the twenty-four whose licenses
were held w be given an opportunity to
appear next Monday iieht and show that
they are entitled to licenses, and that
they be given an opportunity 10 Tefutc
any. charges that might be brought
against them This was specifically IN
derstood TO be made part Of the report /
I don't think there was any question
about that part Of H. All I wanted was
10 give these men chance to be heard.
The fact of the matter is that there
was a big scheme on foot to rush the re-
port through, and haylng the chief Of Do
ice notify the twenty-four that they need
not open their places this morning. as the
council had denied their application for
Licenses. 1t would have amounted to moth |
Ing short or confiscltiOn; that's what 10 |
would have been, and / wouldn't stand to
see any man robbed OF a chance to fight |
Tor MS life. There are lot Of gCod men
among the twenty-foJr. and II anyone |
says there is anything wrong about their |
places II won't do any harm 10 give them
a chance 10 prove there isn't-not grab a /
man property and his means OF making /
a living
That Hundred-Dollar Bill.
Yes I had 4 hundred-d0llar bill and the 1
people who were in the meeting saw IT, /
I got the bill in "a perfectly legitimate /
transaction, and Il vas In partial pay /
ment Of debt that has been owing me /
for year Yesterday I got a telephoue /
message from the west side. from Mrs
Dora Topham's agent that there was /
some money over there for me and \
went over 20 get g. They gave me $50 I
IN currency instead OF a check as IL was
after banking hours. There was a hun
dred-dollar bill and five tens. When We /
were ia the meeting Sam Goldman. the /
license collector. came in with our checks /
We signed the city pay roll. and opened /
my pOcketbook 70 put the check in God
man saw the hundred dollar bill and made \
a facetous remark 20 the effect that bc \
would ike 10 have a few OF the Same /
kind. I then pulled the hill out and mad. /
some sort Of a remark ~ a joking way.
That is all there was TO the hundred /
dollar bill incident.
The money was due me, and 7 gave q
receipt for it, which receipt is probably in
Mrs TOpham's safe. The money was I'M
part payment for q lot Of work I did In
drawing plans, making estimates and the
like for Mrs. Topham. "
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