The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-24
BOSS Reeds" Gang of Political
Brigands Gets Rid of Rough
Neck Deputies.
FIND THAT STUFFED CLUB
METHODS DO NOT WORK
New Set of Expert Gumshoers
Replace Thugs Who Used
Blackjack.

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masquerading under thc title of deputy
shcriffs become that they have lost their
Jobs. Pcrnicious activity does not al
ways pay, not even when that activity
is in service performed for gang of
political scamps. Some of the deputies
Ito be somewhat precise, thirty-five OF
thcm-ihought it was their mission IN
life when they wcro appointed deputies
by Sheriff Joe Sharp to blackmaIl BY
the bludgcon method. Now. the blud-
geon method is diumctrcally opposed
TO the wishes of Apostle Reed and his
brigands, except in cases of emergency,
so, when the deputies began to use the
black jack on their victims, the Smoot-
ties saw that it would never do, and
they were fred. For their valor they
were rewarded with line Of curses
that would have done credit 10 a pi-
rstc.'
When Sheriff Sharp was ordered by
his guuishoe chiefs to ''tie the CAM on
the toughest OF his roughnccks, he was
eager to obey, for Joe sharp fully real
ICES that much moro in the way of
slick thicvcry may be accomplished by
the soft pedal means than By the
strong arm.
But il is mistake TO think that the
vacancies causcd by the elimination Of
the oycrzcalous have not been hilcd. In
deed, they have been filed, but filled
| with different brand Of time servers
| than the other fellows were, This time
Joe Sharp has selected with exceeding
care tho smoothcst, most silent cushion
| feet at his command. Nobody aside
! from the Smootites know who these
are likewise kept profound secret. III
you ask Joe Sharp whom he has APP
pointed to fill tho vacancies caused by
the dropping of the billy-wieldcrs, he
will tell you bo iy in utter ignorance
Of their identity. IL you ask him To
what locality they have been assigned,
he will tell YOU that his mind is blank
on that score.
Must Gut Out 'Rough Stuff
These new "deputies'' have been in
structed, positively and cmphatically,
| TO do the suaye and to cut nut the rough
stuff They have been ordered to levy
blackmail by softly-uttered threats
not by the brjckbat method directly.
Tho Smoottes realize chat the former
deputies went at their victims in a
manner that was entirely loo abrupt,
| TO say the least, and tho new deputies
are using the silk glove fashion of hold
up. But the boldups continue just the
same. The church Republicans need the
money, and they arc going 10 get il If
| they have to burn down the court house
to get the insurance, They made mis-
take in appointing box-car ruffians to
collect the tribute for them, and they
know it, so now they arc going at il
more gently, and, they hope, moro Of
fectively.
What farce the whole thing is!
What trayesty on dccencyl The gov
crnor, at the behest of a gang of po-
litical incompetcnts, issues a statement
that Salt Lake City is in the depths
of infamy and that every soul is lost
in soddcn iniquity. The only saliva
ton, says the governor to the world
is to have the sheriff appoint lot of
"vags' to redeem the city from etcr
nal pcrdition. This the sheriff does,
and what do the deputies dof First,
they sfraid' a Japanese gambling house
and arrest few foreigners. Next they
do likewise for a Greek joint. 1t will
be noted that in doing this tho deputies
! took every care to refrain from arrest
ing persons who were eligible to vote.
The next great coup of the sheriff g
| gang was TO arrest number Of women
in the stockadc. 1t is we'll known that
Sheriff Sharp pledged his protection to
these womcn-for consideration, of
coursc--and that the exactons of bis
hired hands became SO exorbitant that
even the outcasts turned. Then Joe
Sharp's brave and valorous warriors
threw the women into jail.
Following this amazing piece of
crime suppression the garbage squad of
the shcriff's Office covered themselves
with everlasting glory by nrresting half
a dozen chop heads,'y whose brains
were destroyed by the drug to which
they were addicted and whose bodies
were bent and broken. 1t was indeed
a great achievement Any "ofliccr"
has right to be proud when he can
accomplish the capture of SD desperate
characters as opium smokers.
This is how Sheriff Sharp, following
Governor Spry's Infamous proclamation.
performed the work of "cleaning up
the city"
To Protect Tithing Barrel.
Everybody who knows anything at all
knows that the so-called deputies were
added TO the county payroll for no other
purpose than to collect mOney--by fDIr
means or foul-fOr the church Rcpub-
lican corruption fund. This year par
ticularly desperate attempt is being
made TO "gct the money in order that
The tithing barrel may be touched AS
lightly as possible The riurch has Civ
co it out cold that every effort must be
made 20 get as much on the outside rs
can possibl, lie got. for the tithing
barrel must be held as dearly full as
possible because presently there is to be
a dividend among the authorities, and
the Lord will be exceeding wroth if that
dividend is not a fat one. Thus, every
dollar that is extorted from unwilling
, but helpless prey goes just ono dollar s
worth toward relieving the pressure on
!. the tithing barrel. That barrel, of
: course, will be called upon to pay any
deficiency the church Republican man
! ayers may have TO meet, but the one de-
! sire is to make that deficiency lust ms
! small as possible. For this reason the
] SInootites arc working with blarney
!. and bludgeon to get the money.p
|. IL developed. however, that the big
|. stick was not popular institution. es
i pccially when piled by men untrained
! in its finer uses. and the sheriff got his
! orders to call off the spike-heels and
!. substitute therefor expert gumshocrs.