The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-31
THEY FEAR THE RESULT.

skins this year. They are so ratified
that they cannot talk straight. From
Smoot down to the meanest petty ward
hceer, and from him down to the ''or
gam their mouths arc filed with eX'
travagant lies and impossible asser-
tions, Their organ Ellis its columns
daily with the widest, most reckless
sort Of falsehoods. and in spite of the
showing TO the contrary, it insists that
cepted for the truth, All this is an
evidence of weakness. and that this
weakness goes right 10 the bone is
evident from the frantic actions and
speech of the church Republican ora
| tors and writers,
We have shown from time TO time
samples of the impossible fakeries that
are publicly put forth. Snloot raising
his arm before au audience and saying
that he would rather see VI wither at
his side than TO tell lie, proceeds
falsely to disclairl the notorious liquor
deal made between the Federal bunch,
Of which he himself IS the head. and
the liquor interests of this State two
years ago. whereby the church and
the saloon element wcr. make yoke
fellows In the common labor of that
campaign OF course Snloot knew that
he was lying when he did this; his
hearers knew it. and were sadly put
to it to understand the explanation Of
his mcndacIous course.
Smoot. Sutherland, and Howell are
going about the state endcavoring to
persuade the people that the bunko
tariff law is good enactment, and
protective of Utah s interests, This
right in the face of the fact that the
wool men see themselves swindled and
defrauded throughout the season In
wool prices by the WOODEN manufactur-
ers combine; and thai while they claim
10 have done great things for lead the
fact is that lead has taken care of
itself in all the years, even during our
Territorial condition. when there was
nobody at all from Utah To vote for
it. The act Of the Congressional dele
CATION in undertaking to persuade the
people that a lie is the truth with re
spect TO this fraudulent tariff leeisla
iion shows either their innate dishou'
estv or else their contempt for the in
telligence of the people.
The organ of the church Republican
party in this city is constantly putting
forth the craziest notions that anyone
ever heard Of, matter absolutely false,
to be true. 1t is a marvel
how anyone capable of writing at all
would have the impudence TO write such
stuff as it is constantly printing, and
put 1T forth in an Intelligent com
munity. expecting it to have any effect
other than to bring down contempt
upon the source whence it comes. 1t
must be that this church Republican
organ has such low opinion of the
and information of its read
ers that it feels free to put forth any
sort of fakery, confident that it will |
not be called down by them nor re
iected by them rs more damaging than
If it had said nothing at all.
There is marked lack in the church |
Republican campaign this year com
pared with eight wears ago. There is
no such wild and frantic yell of vic
tory before election as there was then.
There is no such confidence IN the re.
suit. On the contrary. that confident
feeling has been succeeded by fear, and
he rafting. of the dry bones can be
,eard even "on the other side Of Jor-
Ian. 1T is good American year,
because the opposition has deserved de
Feat. and because the American party
las earned triumph. IL has done
splendid work for Salt Lake City, In
spite of efforts to drcry the magnificent
work done by the American party ad
ninistration in Salt Lake, the fact re.
mains that this party has done that
work. and the work is here for every
me to see. The further fact is evi.
lent. that the church parties do not
foster progression in the city, but
rather retrogresson and the losing of
ground already won This was mani
fest on The succession of the church
party 10 power afLor the Old Liberal
party, which was party Of enterprise
md progress, and that made splen.
lid start toward giving Salt Lake
,ity metropolitan appearance and
character AS soon as the church ad-
succeeded. everything
vent back. improvement stopped.
Progress was blocked. This uniformly
)y the church, az in the case following
he city election of 1901. when the
Republican party elected eleven out
If fifteen members of the council, and
our of those Republicans (Mormons)
combined with The four Mormon Demo.
rats who had been elected. tn form
he ''sold eight that held the city
II their paralyzing, helpless grip for
he whole of their term. And that is
sample of the way the church does
.hings when il can get control, 1t is
sample Of the way that the church
mas conducted the county business The