The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-21
President of Salt Lake Staksl
Says Organization is One
of Hatred.
CANDIDATE WALLACE JS
DISCREET AND C0NCILIATOp,
Judge W. H. King Takes Swim.
at ApostIe-Senator ~
SmOOt.

cans. FuHoDlsts and Citizens mot !,
the Seventeenth ward amusement Ia,
Wednesday night and were addrcssa'
by sclf'saeriGcing cilizcns. Among s,;,
citizens was Nephi l., Morris. nro',
dent of Salt Lake Stake of Zion uS
embraced thc opportunity to rcviie 81.
American party. which, he claimed. W,
organized 10 destroy the political ,;oh.
and liberties Of the Mormon peoplc -. ~,
this, he declared, was the avowod rn,' rw
pose Of the press of the Amer;oss''
party.
The frs, speaker was Charles z. Fsl.
the father OF fusion OF, pcrbans
better descriptive term would be r.
."faihcr of confusion Mr.. Fell asr
nounccd that be stood squarclv for ill.,
elimination OF partisan politics sro"
municipal affairs and ''ihc LIFTING frou
the political miro Of the finances NJ o,r
splendid city. lie wanted simpIv
business administration, he snid tn,
people here, he ayorrcd, are conf.onts,
with conditions that are not pleasing Z,
tho taXpa vcrs. because there liz ro,n1
blnation whose sole purpose Of exisi
enc Is religious hatred. ''And. >, ec,
tinucd Mr., Felt, '.if You do not desin
a continuance Of these conditions / a~
hort You TO vote the citizens ticket. y
Thus endeth the first lesson.
Hart j, Fitzgerald, who is candida,
for recorder on The Church.mongr,,
ticket, was then introduced With chsr
actcristic cloquencc by ''Fernie.D h.
noblest Roman of them all
Mr.. Fitzgerald had nothing in n,,
,I,tl,t. 10 h. 49, =
City had ''passcd lis swaddIinp CLOTH
period and was now a great mnt,a,, o,S,
oils > All were agreed on this coucIn.
sion.
Thus cudnth the second lesson
President Morris breaches.
President Ncphi L. Morris was I'M,
introduced, Nh. Fcrnstroul. nlads
rather extended address in iitroduein>
the president. this being accented +
explanatory of the fact that the leade<
Of "thc bloody Third (roliciousls|
was the special feature of the cyeuinr
bill. Judge King had not vet appcafnd
For about thirty minutes Pnsidcrf
Morris parricd the issues of the cau.
paign. lie referred 80 the fact th,|
Salt Lake CITY was settled bv h
ligious people who were premdies|
against the world "bccause of the end
trcatment they had received at q
hands of he world Then Mr. Mo-
ris called upon all Ia unite on comma
ground to defeat thp American psrT,|
He said tba, the American party voalI
not meet them on half Nay GROUND I'D
any fusion movement.
81 hope said he, ''that the citireu|
viii unite against that party which u
been tvrannical. deSpotic and defiant q
the administration of the affairs Of i4
city, party founded absolutely wc5
religious prejudice and upheld BY rra1
aud plnndcr = II
Mr.. Morris declared that poyga1I
was a dead issue; that Whenever al.
enters into that relationship today
docs SO cat the peril of his felId|
rchgiouists. - Mr.. Morris denied o.
the church was in politics. Tho AnI
leans. said he. claimed inc right 10
ganiZc and fight the church. but W
mons were denied The right 10 organ
in Self-dcfcnsc.
President Morris declared that
American party was making wa os
Mormon people. "The assault rX'
vicious ono, said he, land the piX
is determined 10 carry on the ass
until they DESTROY all the rights Of
Mormon people, and shall stand ~
the principles Of my church during
time. IL
I'm conclusion Mr. Morris chaI|
that with Il police system which Y
into the hands Of the worst elemerf
the community, the ordinances do
amount To anything,
Thus ondeth The third lesson.
Wallace Is a Conciliatory. Il
Candidate W. r. Wallace, The 81
iice for mayor, was the next spcai
Mr.. Wallace had evidently recoellI =
that in" bounds Of propriety had 5
exceeded nv the previous speoker
he advocated copciIiatiou. He Ar
for n clean campaign. He did no,
hcvc in abusing anyone He SAID Is
knew that John BrauSford was an II
est, clean gentleman, but possibly
Judgment had been had IN rcsam !
the establishment Of the stocM
But. continued Mr.. Wallace, -
social evil is one that cannot De
tiroly done away with. but IL is trt
thai should be minimlzed as muen =
possible; and he believed that y,
Bransford. did. honestly, the besi
could with the evil.
Thus cndeth the fourth leeso9 e
Enter Judge w. II King, and - ,
introduced by rem
Judge King. in the course OF bis, ~
remarks. expressed fervent adH
ton for the mongrcl movement. d.
never did believe in partisan ~ is
in municipal affairs, he said.
he continued, 81 rcprehcnd the
ductiou of a church. AS II churcn' t
politics, whether il be the A9I 4,
church or the Catholic church.
do feel that good citizens, "o 4
they be ccclesiasts or laymen, oue, :
he interested in good govcrume1ss =
Then the Judge took sIc'
swipc at the American party. heAs'
that all citizens should combine 70 81
his pcrniclous party known sIt,
party, that has done 50 ~
10 hinder the progress ana qp .,
ncnt of this municipality. nE
evidently, for be dep%9s S9, :
any man coming Ia Salt Lake op
any city, and among instances pyu6ts
Philadelphia, and building up ppE n
machine to further his polliies, rs
bitions senatorial or otherwls a
lictatiug the municipal poliiiss u rs
'ity in which he had no resids~ e
;eStcd interest This was 4 boa1 q
Ii Apostle Senator Smoot. Judge ~ =.
lid not mention the Apostle-Sepa:'' ~ I,
he "malodorous bunch" but nn ::
renee was so obvious that be wy IN ~;
nay read. st
Aud Tins cn.;"lh he meetlns s
Rummsuo Sale corner Second ~ Z