The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-21
Governors Notorious Iette'
sued for Purpose of llstl'
ing Slush Fund.
COUNTY ATTORNEY KEPT
TOTALLY IN lGNORI
Complaints Prepared I'M h
ifs Office From Copy Pin
From Lyons Departmeu|

Positive evidence has developed IA +.
movement launched by the Smn,t
through the governors office r.
the city and intimIdatc honest Co.,
cluded A plot 70 mako fallen wom.-
tho few gamblers there are IN n.
contribute 10 tho Republican sIn,
This proof comes to light throm.
sheriff 8 raid of Wednesday MIR,
the stockadc
The gang attempted to cu,p,..
county attorneys Office TO force q,
gamblers 10 come acrosss3 IA I'd.
fund, but failed. but in The stockad.
IL was more successful. In purs,-.
the scheme to compel tho lSnirh}~
blue cloth 10 come through. q mn
member OF the gang approached +
Attorney Job =. Lyon, eight or IA.
$50. 10 find out " Mr.. Lyon would
complaints against gamblers. The n
OF Mr.. Lyon. who has stood again.
~ graft, was unmistakablc In ifE n.
Mr.. Lyon refused TO lend the ma
office 10 any such Infamous schcre
Complaints by "Underground
When the members Of tho ra,.
ready 10 have the sheriff pull off n.
on the stocEade thoy knew Il W..
less TO appeal 10 the county atto70.
aid, SO They kept MIR. Lyon in ja1,
OF their plans. Through AssIsianf IA
Attorney John r. Bowman. the a
office. carly in the day Wcdncsda.
rcptiiiously procured a blank h
complaint for StoCkade cases and
Sheriff Sharp's stenoGraphcr was
work TO make out sevcnty-fvn Ja~
Stockade complaints from this for13
deputy sheriff was placed in yatc1
the county attorneys office Ia
back To tho sDcrin's office Mr.. /
departure for home. The county al
left for home about o'clock Wedu
afternoon, and five minutes later h.
cnty-nve stoclSadc complaints, dr5f|
the Sherlft'S office. were III the 4
attorneys office for Bowman's am
This they received without BoBnz
tifying Mr. Lyon OF his action.
Where Lyon Stands. 4
Said Mr.. Lyon Thursday. in m
OF the matter: THE Jane Doa
plants were issued after I left n
fec late yesterday afternoon. wIth5
knowledge or consent. think n
part OF the dlrticst political gam
I ever saw played. No complnInu
been issued from this office TO my
edge against any gamblers. I waa|
TO issue such complaints, out raf1|
do SO. believing that that was q
which should be handled by the
] do not make this statement IN h
mcnt for my defeat for renowins||
the hands of the Republican com
but 1 stand in the position where
always stood. that IL Is not tf1
Of the county commissioners b
sheriff to police Salt Lake City,"
Result Of Governors InfanlouG
The governor, IL is said, did nd
template "A raid upon the stockat<
he sent out his communication OF
Slapdcring the city. but part 1
Smoot machinery got away from thI
and the raid was one of the result
governor and several other menu
the bunch were content with th4
nous indictment of the city contnI|
the chief executives communicato
spread broadcast over the countI
other misguided members OF The
thought that people. especially
Salt Lake county, would not see q
the raid on the stockadc and w0u|
the Church Republicans credit for a
uplift that does not belong 10 tho
addition to epriching the Republican
fund, the raid. il was thought ny'
members of the gang. would 81
church G., .. p. elsewhere In the
even ~ II was seen through nef
worked damage in this county "a