The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-31
MURDOCH Is FoREDooMED.

MURDOCH IS FOREDOoMED.
The outcry raised against thc church
move in supporting the Democratic
fusion is confession Of defeat for the
..Fcdcral bunch" and for Murdoch,
II means that the political pIotters
who have been such scandal, nuI'
sancc. and affliction TO the State, see
the handwriting ON the wall and know
that their doom is scaled.
And Murdoch is going down with
.st the BUNCH Bransford' s election
for mayor is assured, as is also that
of the American ticket. The oPposi'
tion are now concentrating their Ell
forts to get a rcactionary City Council
that will block tho wheels OF progress
and forcstall any efforts that Mayor
Bransford may make for improving the
city. This effort, however, VIII also
fail, because the Americans, and every
Bransford supporter who has not mere
toforc acted with the American party,
understand full well that vote lor
Bransford will mean nothing unless
that vote also is for the American
candidates for the Council who VIII
give Mayor Brnnsford their earnest
and unqucstionablc support.
The organ of the Federal bunch
is conducting Just now bitter cam
paipn against the church move IN sup
port of Mr.. Wallace, Dcmocrat'Clu-
Zcns' candidate for mayor. il IS bit
ter, unrelcnting, and vicious in It's
assault upon those Mormon eccleslastS
who signed the statement that having
heretofore been Republicans they
were this year IN favor of Mr.. Wallace
for Mayor. This the g Bunch organ
dcnounces as outrageous, and rs an
| effort TO drag the church into the mire
of filthy politics.
But last year there was an even
more pronounced, vicious, energetic,
and "divinc.command - call upon the
brethren and sisters of the Mormon
church by ccclesiasts Of that church.
good many of them the same men
who are now laboriug for Wallace to
vote the Republican, local ticket.
| lg1SU NtiI iuuGf llA'i WIZ ''' ''N '''''
Republican ticket, and they used
| their church positions unsparlnglY IN
its support There was mot ono word
of donunciaiion of that action last
year by the Bunch organ On the
contrary, it accepted the aid thus ron
dered gratefully, enthusiastically, and
with fcrvcnt Acknowledgements of its
effective service, This year when pre-
ciseIy the same thing is done but ap-
plicd contrary TO the wish of the
''Fcderal bunch" the act is IN I'M
measurable outrage. an effort TO place
the church in n false position, and
altogether damnablc.
It does make a difference, after all,
whose OK it is that is gored. In these
two instances, however. the principle
is precisely the same. Last year that
interference of the church ccclcsasts
committing the church to the local
Rcpublicani' ticket here, was crate
fully received and warmly commended.
II was all right: there was nothing
i'm the world wrong with 1t; 1T dIdn I
commit ll' 'uNl'H W 'hN '''''-' "'H'
anybody who supposed that the church
was in politics was an unrcasoning-
vindictiyc enemy Of Utah. This year,
however, he same thing is done, IN
large degree by tho same mon, the
same church officials, but tho effort is
made against the "t'cderal bunch .
ticket, and tho organ of the "buuch
comes out in opposition to it, and thus
places itself according to It's own def
milton Of last year in tho category Of
vindfctive enemies TO the State ot
Utah,
such n summersault as this is ludi
crous indeed, but that is exactly the
, sort of thing that time dis
honest scalawags in politics arc bound
to tangle themselves up III by then
conscicncolcss prcvarications and shift
ing of position.
That the church is in politics, ano
, has been in politics right along, is per
fectly evident to any ono who knows
ANYTHING about political affairs il
Utah; and for a partisan organ &c
commend, endorse, and defend thai
: church action one year when the ac
ton suits that organ, and dcnouDce II
the next year when the action doe
=, not suit it, is such an Inconsistent, un
principIcd position that the organ, il
taking it, simply makes itself con
tcmptibIc and public laughing.stock.
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A PROOF THAT FAILS.