The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-24
WHAT ATDOOEMOCRATS
GET FROM FUSION?
Forced TO IndOrse Candidates
Picked by Citizens for the
Federal Bunch.
BODY BLOW Is DEALT
DURING CLOSING DAYS
When all Almost Solid Mormon
Delegation Is Placed on the
Democratic Ticket.
BY MAC.

that has been filed bv their committee
and aualyze il as 20 the political pre-
dilcclions of those ou the ticket. they
Will then have realized how completely
the "federal bunch, with the assist
ancc of the representatives of the so
called "Citizeps'' movement, has cut
generated them,
Only two Democrats are on the city
ticket, Wallace mud Fitzgerald, and
neither OF them has a ghost Of a chance
of winning. Only one Democrat on the
councilmanic ticket, Hollcy, in the Third
ward. is reasonably sure of cleo
ton Two others. Kimbal in the
Fourth. and Hyde, in the First, have Il
possibility Of election All Of the Dem"
ocratic councilmaniC nominees are Nor
mons And those lu the fused wards
are held 10 be so safe by the "federal
bunch that The ''bunch - has been
willing To place them on The Rcpub-
Iican ticket, knowing that there Is noth-
ing 10 fear from them should they sue
cced 81 the polls.
If the Democrats in Salt Lake believe
that they have got anything out of this
fusion farce, they are very easy TO
: please. II they think that the good of
The Democratic party viii be conserved
bv supporting such 4 farce on election
day. ii would be interesting to have
SOMEONE come forward with aU cXplaua-
ton as to how the local Democracy is
10 profit from such thing.
Wise old Democrats know that the
party has been humiliated more i'll the
finale Of the fusion agreement than the
L2rty was Inundated last year. They
DO not forget the vicious onslaughts
which were made upon Democrats. as
Movie. King. Roberts. Powers and 9th
ers h,' the 50 federal gang, Nephi l..
Morris and other tools of the apostolic
senator from Utah county.
Young Democrats hang their heads IN
shame III the thought that they are dc
MED the privilege of supporting a
siraigbi Democratic ticket in order that
the POLITICAL fQiuUes Of Reed Sneoot
shall not suffer through Illuminating
defeat Of his organization.
Ne wonder prominent Democrat re-
marked Yesterday that he mad at last
awakened to the fact that there IS real
causc for the organizing OF the Amcrl-
can pnrtv. No wonder be SAID that IL
( is all fol de.rol 10 try to maintain Dem
rcraj'c organization here when 1T rs
1 pate nt 10 everyone that Il few men who
iIrc in The church or who have inHu-
tncc with the politicians OF the church,
4 can play with the average church voter
as 30 many helpless pawns IN a chess
\ game
Some one might paraphrase the lines
OF Omar kh1yam. which runs us FOL
] lows:
"As bcIplcss pieces Of the game he
plays
/ Upon tbe checker board of nights and
i days
4 liithcr and thiihcr he moves and checks
3 aud plays,
4 And ore bv Que back in the closet
laws,
! aud very aptly apply them to the local
= political situation.
Reed Smoot. with the sanction of his
J Ecclesiastical superior, has no more dlt.
q fcultv in making use of the political
' mou voters than ii they were no more
8 than so many checkers IL "thc game
? he plays.
But not all Mormous are "belplcss
pieces of that game. Hundreds OF
y them have become independent Amcri.
can citizens, who, 'f they do not stand
s iii the open and fight for their rights,
I Will 90 60 the polls and vote for their
q iightS And If there IS anything in the
IS signs Ut the times. there viii be more
Il Of this kind do SO week from next
l. Tuesday than ever before.
q AS tor th" non Mormon Democrats.
y here is only one thing for them 10 do
4 III.
y fby SO doug, not only vote to correct
s abuses III local politics. thereby moving
bc Forward toward the happy day whcG
i fthcrc shall be a normal condition poIit-
lcally here, but by 50 voting they viii
rteaeconpllsh the swift defeat and humili.
n iatiop of Smoo, aud the selfseekiug.
2fiicc holding ring with which Smoot
hhs surrounded himself
II lbc waGecarD"r in tue present cam-
-PalGn should not overlook this fact: so
{. 5lope as there is buildirg activity. both
4 ypnbIIc and private, in this city, there
70 y~iil he healthy demand for labor at
D. = scale OF wages cInincnily satsfar
Fpry To the man who tolls. Whereas,
Fnould there be reaction, due TO the
o. tael that the mossback element had
-, Eccured control of the council. thou.
S'oIs ol mon would bC thrown out Of
rn'PioyIncnt IN many lines of business
anp trade. These. in seeking cmplov
osI'1 "en1 IN ID" shops, stores, street rail
49, EraS and elsewhere, would immediately
J" Ia ausc reduction Of wages and enable
"neartiess employers To exact terms that
nonid force tho average toilcr inro the
post desperate straits.
cue reason why wages are generally
y D5d0Nsctory IN salt Lake is that every
Ses plin who desires employment can find
Fmploymcni. Tbc general activity calls
= h. 9iucn oeip' aud employers are will.
.J%nE 20 pay good wages in order 10 has
. IN ibe completing of their contracts.
al elenants find Il easy 10 advance the
~ Pay OF their clerks because of fbc Great
n k'o@to IN their business Aud fhcrc
.sebf scarcely man or woman in Salt
IND ijSnne ijSSne VINO Is compelled 10 earn u live.
'nTS t,bnHUod who is not benefited directly of
J, '.,,sti sti,'aarerlly because of the great activity
sus Of ~ IL ilnes that trend TO tho upbuiIding
hT even the thousands Of servant pirls
r5rbcso ufaw'ng higher wages than ever
Ia ia H. ~ thelr lives, and this is due
r'Ae arc generally prosp,rans ,rnas .ud ,.an ,"',
T Continued ~ Page Two.