The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-17
Advertise to World That Salt
Lake Is Unsafe Place
TO Live.
SECRET MEETING HELD
ON SUNDAY MORNING
Bunch Make Grand-Stand Play
and Will Ask for Appoint
ment Deputy Sheriffs.

The dcfamers of Utah. the real knock
crs. those who would keep immigration
from the state, are the federal bunch
and few persons who arc put forward
rs leaders Of the church Republican
party IN Salt Lake county. These are
the real knockers against Utah.
To carry ont their point to keep peor
pie from coming into the state, for i'm
migration means the wipng out of the
federal bunch, this gang will this morn
ing, through representatives, of the bunch.
make application TO the board of com"
mIssloners Of Salt Lake county for the
appointment Of fifty deputy shcriffs,
the reason given for this action, but
which is without foundation in matter
Of fact, is that life and property is not
safe in Salt Lake and that this number
Of special officers are needed,
Secret Meeting Held,
This action was decided upon al a
meeting held i'm the church Republican
headquarters Sunday morning. At this
conference only persons who bad been
invited by the federal bunch were ad-
mittcd. There were present tho district
attorney, county commissioners, the
sheriff and the federal bunch. The
meeting was secret one and held be
hind closed doors.
The fact that young man had been
murdered in his home in Salt Lake City
last week was the preteXt for holding
the meeting and for the action Of Coy
crnor Spry later in the day in issuing q
letter addressed to the board Of com
missioncrs, the sheriff, the mayor or
acting mayor and the chief of police Of
Salt Lake City. 1t is a grandstand play
made solely for The purpose of politics.
The fact that' the alleged murderer
of the boy has been arrested, has made
Il partial confession, that circumstantial
evidence shows that he was the slayer
of the boy. that the machinery of the
law was at work and thai Justice would
be metcd out, made no difference TO the
federal bunch. The fact is, the al
legged murderer was arrested outside the
city by the sheriff, who should have
made the arrest. and that the police au-
thoritics Of the citv had not been given
the o~portunIty. Hence the federal
bunch and the others who were present
at the conference asscntcd to having it
advertised TO the world that life and
property were not safe in Salt Lake, a
statement that is maliciously false.
After the conference Governor Spry WAS
called and later in the day he promul-
gated and had delivered to the officials
designated the following letter:
Governor spry's Letter.
October 1G. 1910.
10 the Board OF County Commissioners
and Sheriff of salt Lake County, and
the Mayor or Acting Mayor and Chief
of Police Of Salt Lake City
Gcntlomcn-It is common knowledge
That within the past few months numer-
GUS burglaries, holduDs. thefts and rob-
berries have been committed in Salt Lake
City, and vicious assaults made. both in
the day and AT night time, upon help
less and dcfcnseess women and children.
For several months the city has been
and Is now infested with numerous
vicious and criminal characters. By rea-
son OF such conditions tho lives. prop
erty and homes Of the citizens OF such
city have been rendered insecure and
unsafe. There Justly exists a widespread
fear and alarm that no man, woman or
child Is free from such assaults and
attacks. Public sentiment has become
aroused to such an extent that unless
something is done TO protect the public
it is feared that IL will take tho law
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