The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-26

nothing whatever 10 do with IT. With
respect TO the 100000 bonds. Judge
Dlninny declared that every dollar Of
IL had been appropriated according to
plans laid long ago, and that not Il
cent OF it had been expended or would
be expended in any other way. The
speaker denounced the charges of graft
that had been made ~ the organ of
the opposition rs wholly false. He
quoted from city records of long AGO
to show that the graft in 1873 had been
SO flagrant that the church had heeu
compelled 10 call n halt on ii. Al that
time. said Judge Diuinnv, the mayor
had reached his hand into the public
funds TO the extent of S3s,OOu. and the
cltv council had ordered 81 900 of this
chargd to profit and loss. Ten
thousand more stolen by other officials
of the city had been wiped out in the
same way, 'Do YOU think Mayor
Bransford would do anything like
that -
/" No. no! Novcr!" shouted three or
four lustv voices in unison.
Armstrong, the Moralist.
Judge Dininny, proceeding. sald:
q But what else can You expect from
dirty. lying rag like the hyphcnatcd
smooth mouth! That sheet is unques-
tionably the lowest of the low-thcrc
is no paper in the United States that
can touch il for, vIlcuess. But then,
one must expect nothing else, for IT'S
editor is the most infamous scouDdrel
that every came TO this community. He
is so low n creature that decent people
utter his name only with shlvcr- Ihls
is q fine man, indeed, to set mora
standard for Salt Lakc-this convict,
this fclonl
Judge Dininny discaimcd response
hility on the nart of the American
party for the inauguration OF the m
tcrcepting sewer, or the delay IN ITS
completion. He said the sewer had
been Inherited from n previous admin
istratiou and that the American party
had been compelled 10 do the best IT
conld 10 complete it, He promised that
it would be put INTO commission very
soon. now.
The speaker disclosed the scheme be,
hind tho fusion movement. He declared
that there are only two GentilcS on the
entire councilmanic tickct-the rest are
Mormons The whole business, he de-
cIarcd, was a black conspiracy to put
the Mormons again IN conir3l, LOT, De
said, even though Mayor Branstord
were re re.clectcd-of which there is no
doubt-hc viii be powcrlesS II the
church scheme prevails. He Will be As
| HELPLESS as though he were not mayor
| at all if his every step is blocked by
! an ant1uonlStIc council, ana INC M
proVemeuis that arc planned VIII come
| 10 a stop, and the city will rctrograde
and lapse into the pitiful condition OF
| inactivity that it was in when the
! American party took hold of it, nour-
| ishcd it and brought II to,a virl!e man 5
| estate,
Fusionists Subservient,
The federal bunch and the Smoot
machine were roundly scored bv the
/ speaker, who said that the fusion was
! only a blind 10 cover the real motive
behind it. ''And YOU can bet your
! life - he cried, with emphasis, that
every man on that fusion ticket is sub
Scrvirnt TO the federal bunch or the
Smoot machine. and that every one of
them sworc allegiance TO that outfit
I before their names were put on that
ticket
Judge Dininny, with fine sarcasm,
pointed ont the paradoXicnl situation
under which the Dcmocratic party ,
finds itself .fOn this ticket said
Judge Diuiuny, "thcre are two Demo
Gratis and three Rcpubicans-two DEM
ocrats and three Rcpublicans-au they
Sf'i OF ~ y the D''n0S''''' '''N''-'n'nN
The failure of the proposition TO erect
u capitol i'll Salt Lake, Judge Dininny
charged, lay with the opposition.
"Surely the American party is not TO
blame that we have not CAPITOL he
said. "Thc only state in the union
without capitol-a shame and a dis
grace il is that this is so, but it is so
iusi the same, and 1t is so because the
disciples of lethargy and obstruction
made it so
| The speaker urged tue people TO reg.