The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-28
Church Republican HeeIers At
tempt to Induce Americans
to Desert Party.
OFFER JOBS IN SHERIFFS
OFFICE WITHOUT LIMIT
Latest Underlland Work lndica-
ton of Plight in Which Lead
ers Find Themselves.

Tho American county committee has
evidence that at least two of the
American party district chairmcn have
been approached by church Republican
deputy sheriffs and offered appoint
mcnts as special deputies. The object
Of the offers was undoubtedly to in
ducc them to forsake their allegiance
to the American party and become
political workers for tho church-Re-
pubJicans And this at the expense Of
the taxpayers of The counfS.
One Of those who WAS offered en-
plovment by the church Republicans is
Joseph Weller, American party CHAIR
man for tho Eighth district Another
rs f. A. Morford, American party chair"
man for the Twenty sixth district.
Concerning The offer to him 10 be
come an cmrloyc of the county, Mr..
Weller. who lives at 153 East Eighth
South street, said;
Promises Are Brides.
"On Tuesday. while walking along
West Second South street / met Dick
Eddington. who asked me if / did not
want employment. asked him the
nature of it. He told me that if /
wanted TO be a deputy sheriff it could
be fixed I laughed and told him
that I WINS an American. and that the
Republicans would not give mo po-
sition. He told me that I was mis-
taken. and that he could 'fx' it for
me all right.
~ told him that was not a poll
tician and could be of no service to
the Republicans. He replied You
were in politics before I was born.
Then T told him that [ was an Ameri-
can and he was foolish If he thought
I would change my politics for a po-
sition in the sheriff s Office, He tried
to tell Of the certainty Of Republican
victory and urged me to accept his Of
fer''
From =. A. Morford comes the in
formation that he was approached on
Claude Y. Russell. who is candidate
for the state legislature, and that Rus
sell made blm a similar offer.
Offers by Wholesale.
These two offers to the American
ises in the nature of bribes that are
being held out to American party work
ers all over the city by the church
Republicans. Some 800 or GOO loyal
Americans all over the county have
beeu promised positions by the church
Republicans under The next admins
tration in case the Republicans arc
successful. These offers arc made in
discriminatory and without the slight
est Thought Of ever fulfilling thnm
There are only fifty or sixty positions
10 be filed and il is certain that in
the remote possibility OF the church
Republicans being successful none of
these positions would be disposed of to
any American party workers who wonld
become eleventh bour converts to the
church Republicans.
IT is gratifying to the American
party voters to know that in no case
have the church Republicans been sue
cessful in their attempt 10 make The
American workers desert their colors.
They arc all standing steadfast and
the offers of The church Republicans
only are an indication Of the dcspera-
ton to which they are driven by the
growing conviction that the Americans
will defeat them at the polls. These
offers are acting as boomerang in
prompting the American workers to
creator zeal for their party and i'm
discussing clean Republicans with the
methods employed by the church Re.
publican leaders and candidates.