The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-11
OUTSIDE, WITH BRUTUs AND
CASSIus.

AsdoSAuSs kdlhlLk ABOUT caesar anu WUll-
dering what all the noise of the popu-
lace might mean. And Casea came
along, not a whit fooled by what he had
seen, and reported to them. Antony,
the deftest politician in all Rome, had
worked up the people to trample upon
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a crown to Caesar-after having cursed
all crowns for a century. Casca says
it was offered three times, and Caesar
put it away a little weaker every time.
And it was Casca's option, freely ex-
pressed to his limited audience, that if
it had been offered once more, Caesar
would have turned his back on all his
principles-nOt TO be outdone by the
pOpulace in generosity of turning-and
accepted it. But then Casca was envi-
ous-as appears later.
And, as things turned out, the people
who rendered the crown to Caesar-one,
two, three times. as the case may be
helped on the following Tuesday to stab
the life out of him, and make an ever
lasting end Of J. Caesar.
1t is matter of current report here in
Salt Lake that the crown of a mayoral
nomination has already been offered
J. Caesar Bransford twice, and that he
has declined to accept it. The only diff
ference we can see between him and
Caesar is that he tells the people he is
willing enough to accept the tender
when the right people bring il, but no
Democrats need apply, and no citizens
need come fOOling around. The only
crown that looks good to J. Caesar
Bransford is that which he hopes will be
rendered him br what is called the
American party. He confesses that
some Marc Anthony or other has be-
guiled him to the place where the crown
looks good-in spite of his long dacla-
nation against all crowns and other
favors. But he wants it to come from
the Kearns party, or he won't play with
it at all.
And the fellows on the outside, his
closest friend and his bitterest enemy,
whet their knives for his undoins, what
ever choice he makes.
There is a fool in the play, as is usual
" the case with the classics. And the
fool declares the crown has really been
offered three times to John. And that
the Republicans have made the third
tender. But no one believes what a fool
says, because it isn't true. The RepubH-
cans have a browning nomination to
give out, but it isn't to Bransford.
The funny part Of the game is to
watch where history repeats itself
Bransford is the one man responsible
for that high wall down beyond Fourth
West street, and running from First to
Second South. It was he, as mayor
who gave the thing its first American
party official Endorsement It was he
who carried people down there in his
automobile, and convinced them that
the stockade would be a good thing for
the town. It was he who, when the con-
struction was completed, drove honest
Tom Pitt from the chair Of chief Of po-
lice because Tom absolutely refused to
chase the cyprians into the official es-
Enlistment on the west side. It was he
who appointed another man for chief on
the one pledge that he would chase the
women. 1t was against the said official
establishment on the west side that Ger
tain prominent members of the Civic
league labOred night and day Because
they believed it to be unutterably bad,
they volunteered to get evidence for the
sheriff-for Of course the police wouldn' I
help them. They spent their money and
their time They soiled their hands and
periled their good repute to put the
place out Of business which John Caesar
Bransford himself put into business.
And now they are offering him the
crown of their handmade Citizens par
~ nomination.
Interesting to the man outside.
And then there is another faction that
made free to offer him a crown. They
are the Democrats, to which party J.
Caesar Bransford formerly belonged.
He received a number of other crowns
at the hands of that party. but he left
1t a few years ago, and now declares he
doesn't consider it an honor to be nom
mated by Democrats. He likes their
votes, but they will have to get out of
their old party and come into his new
party. or he will not permit them to vote
for him.
Just a little while ago J. Caesar
Bransford drove John Burbidge from
the police force solely because he was
and is-a Democrat and a Mormon.
And now here we have the so-called
Democrats themselves rendering the
crown of nomination to J. c. B.
(Of course his name really isn't julius
Caesar Bransford, but plain John S.
Bransford But the parallel is very
apt)
There was nothing the matter with
Burbidge, excepting that he was a Dem
oerat. Unless you add that he belongs
to the Mormon church. Burbidge had
been a Democrat from way-back. He
had worked for the party, had given his
money for the party. had supported the
party in a thousand ways. And now,
maybe because Bransford dismissed him
from the police department, the Demo-
Gratis feel they have a chance to express