The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-08
DR.. Charles |. Douglas Scores
Splendid Victory Over. Fed
eral Bunch i'm Fifth.
DESERVED REBUKE GIVEN
CLIQUE OF C0NSPIRAT0RS
Non-PartiSan Candidates Are
Elected in All of Other Pre-
cincts of City.

A deserved rebuke was administered
TO the consprators OF the federal bunch
In the Fifth precinct Wednesday. when
DR. Charles l. Douglas was elected a
member OF the board of education by
plurality over DR.. Gilbert p. Pfoutz, the
federal bunch candidate, OF 148 votes.
Thus did the people of the Fifth ward
stamp with stern disapproval the tactics
employed by the federal bunch plotters,
and thus did the Americans OF the pre-
cinct once more assert that retributiou
awaits any clique or gang that tries
any crooked work.
The victory of Dr. Douglas is a warn
ing to the copsplrators that the day has
passed when the people can be hood
| winked, and when they are willing TO
! become blind victims of a. dirty scheme.
| such as was attempted i'll the ward in
connection with this school election CAM
pagn.
| One week ago Wednesday night nuua-
bcr of the residents OF the Fifth ward
| in response TO call Tor 4 non partisan
meeting. gathered at the old city hall TO
nominate candidates for the long term
and The short term. 1t was the taclt
understanding that the incumbents
should be renominated. and that there
was TO be no opposition: The meeting
ratification meeting than nominating
convention The understanding was
! clear, and everyone who went to tho
| meeting with an honest purpose. thought
or nothing else than living up to that
understanding.
The incumbents were ". ]. Barreus
and l.. NJ. Bailey. Mr.. Barrette was
| nominated for the long term. according
to the understanding, but when the fed
| eral bunch packers saw that they could
control the meeting. they placed in nom
are with the federal bunch. The friends
| OF Mr.. Bailey could muster only 10 votes
as against % for DIR. Pfoutz, and tho
latter was declared the nominee.
| interests OF the public schools or this
city were astonished that so dcspicabla
a trick should have been played upoa
| them, and they determined to rectify
their error. Therefore. on Saturday night
| a mass convention of representatives
| Americans was held, and DR.. Douglag
days balloting shows that the people dd
mol approve attempts 10 thwart their VIII,
especially when the means employed ara
| OF the sneaking, underhanded kind.
Lesson Is Taught.
a lcsson is taught in the situation lr
| the Fifth which came TO happy close
last evening That lesson Is that tho
| federal bunch can in no wise. or at any
| time. or in any place, be trusted Tho
leuSIdl DullSH Is 80 CONSTITUTED tNdt tI1'To
are always kecnly alert unscrupulous
henchmen who eagerly seize upon every
opening that presents Itself II is clear.
consequently, that the Americans must
keep hair-trigscr watch on these con-
| scienceless conSplratoTs. not for day,
or month, but forever and eternallS'.
The vote cast in the Fifth precinct
was quite heavy for school election.
The vote for Mr.. Barrette was t1iS. Her
man Bamberger. the chairman OF the
American precinct committee, who was
also the chairman of the campaign COM
nittee for the Douglas campaign. Is to
be congratulated upon the splendid sue
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