The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-27
THE IMPORTANT QUESTION.

w ncU iOQncllnlNN ftIDStIplH L udiN
his brash attack upon the Mayor and
the Council in n session last week, the
Mayor promptly called a special scs'
sion OF the CITY Council to investigate
as to himself Fcrnstrom, however, did
not wait for the investigation so far
as the Mayor was concerned. but, Ike
Crockett s coon, he fastened to come
down before the shot was fred, and he
apologizcd most humbly for his error
and insult. The church organ prompt
ly undertook to cover Fernstrom S hu-
initiation by stating in its leading edl-
loriaI of last Saturday evening that
the important question was some
thing else; that what Fernstrom had
said about the Mayor was not really
the thing that interested the people,
but the Council S action with respect to
the West Side sewer was the main
thing.
The Tribune refrained from COM
mentipg on this matter altogether IN.
ill the close of the investigation. We
were gratifed, of course. 10 see that
tho Fernstrom charge against the
Mayor was so promptly and so thor
oughly taken back by Fernstrom. OF
course, there was nothing IN the
charge; there could not have been,
Every one knew this without any in
vestigation at all. But there was still
the charge OF corruption against the
Council made by FeTnstrom. This
charge was gone into as thoroughly asI
possible on Wednesday evening. The
result was - nothing. Fernstrom
brought forward no instance of corrup-
tion. no suspicion whatever of anything
of the kind, only as applied to himself.
He charged that Mr.. Koch, foreman for
the Campbell Company, had directly ap'
preached him with the proposition that
Fernstrom should let up on the Camp
bell Company and told him that if he
did So '.he would be taken care of. -
And that was all that Fernstrom had to
bring forward. There was nothing what
ever supporting his charge of corrup'
tion on the part of other Councilmen;
there was nothing in any way to their
discredit alleged There was simply a
talk between Mr.. Koch and himself. and
Fernstrom apparently concluded that If
Mr. Koch would approach him corrupt
", he had probably done so to other
But when Mr., Koch was called, he
fatty and absolutely denied any such
Nothing of the kind had
occurred between him and Mr.. Fern
strom. he had never had anv talk what
ever with Fernstrom where Fernstrom
said the talk occurred, and had never
even intimated anything of the kind as
charged by Fernstrom, at any time or
place.
And so the whole Fcrnstrom matter
flashed in the pan, aud it was just a
fash; there WAS nothing TO it.
The churcl organ S something
else utterly failed This something
else" that the News said was the main
question, was something that has been
out thoroughly, and the public
knows all about. There was. of course,
Just discomfort with regard to some of
the sewer work on the West Side, The
Tribune has printed all there was to
that, and we do not believe that there is
anything whatever hidden in that mat
ter The public knows all about that
sewer construction in all of its phases
And now that Fernstrom has utterly
failed in his vicious political charges, has
as to the Mayor been compelled abiectly
TO retract the same. and after fair
hearing in the Council has utterly failed
in every respect, the whole thing can be
dismissed from the public mind as an
weak effort at cheap
political sensation.