The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-02

Similarly. why should any Democrat
vote the fusion ticket. although that is
called tbe Democratic ticket, it Is not
Democratic ticket at all. IT does not bear
the names Of The candidates nominated
bv tho Democratic party cNGcpt IN n
few instances. The general ticket car
rics the names of three Republicans.
The Councilmauic ticket has few Dem
ocrats on it; they arc mostly Re
publicaus - The candidates on the
ticket, while that ticket is called the
Democratic ticket, are not Democrats,
aud they arc not running on a Demo
cratic platform. As in the case of the
Republican ticket, there IS not the
least obligation. partisan or otherwise
for them as party voters TO support
that mongrel ticket il is ticket
made up by secret manipulation and
by the influence of tho church politi-
clans without regard 10 politics at all.
In fact. those that arc most outsPokcn
in the advocacy of this ticket dcnounce
the claim that partlsanship has any
tious. and make their special stand on
quotation from President Roosevelt
10 that effect This being so. what
claim is there upon any Democrat or
upon any Republican TO vote an alleged
party ticket that is not the ticket of
that party nj all?
The whole proposition is absurd from
the party standpoint. The tickets were
worked over by secret manipulation.
| Candidates were Withdrawn. Others
were substituted in the darkness of
secret conclavcs. the nominations by
the conventions being treated as Of no
moment or consequence. The whole
matter was taken out of the hands Of
| the people by these darklantcrn poll.
! ticians who have no real authority to
gates who authorized them TO set aside
the party nominations. or even TO put
on an alleged party ticket a majority
of the members Of the opposition. TAX
ing down their own party nominees.
To claim that this ticket, so mauipu.
lated is the party ticket which any
| Republican OF Democrat is under obi
cation 10 support, is travcsty upon
party or popular politics, a ridiculous
and jmpudent claim that has no fouu.
dation whatever. Democrats are un
der no party obligation TO vote for II
| publicans, and Republicans arc under
no party obligation 10 vote for Demo
Gratis. They have not even the cxcus,
that their conventions made up these
tickets. it would bc bad enough foI
q Republican convention 10 nom ua {,
Democrats for Office. or for Democrats
in convention TO nominate Republican!
for Office. But neither did so The
substitution of Republicans for Demo
Gratis on the alleged Democratic ticket
and of Democrats for Republicans OF
the alleged Republican ticket was +
piece Of chicanery and unwarranteC
and secret manipulation which those
who undertook and carried it through
understand perfectly we'll would no.
stand the light of day. Therefore, they
kept it all secret, no one knowing iust
who was AT the back Of the trickery
Or what influences led 10 tho results
which were brought forth. What /.
known absolutely, however, is that il
the case of so-callcd Democratic ticket
il was not Democrats who made it up
aud in the case of the so-callcd Repub
licnn ticket it was not the Republican,
who made jt up, II was the secret
undcrhand influence, having no rcla
tion to or care for either party. tha
did this INSCRIPTIONS secret work.
In view OF these facts. WHY shoul,
any Republican or any Democrat vot
their misnamed aud abortive fraudu
lent tickets this year