The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-24
A SNAP JUDGMENT.

The haste with which a few ladies ol
the Women's Welfare committee fell
into the toils of the Federal bunch on
Sunday evening. and endorsed the Fed.
cral bunch nominee for Mayor. was
only cuualcd by The scramble next day
of other ladies Of that committee 10 re-
pudiatc the action. II was evidently
pu,.up scheme. the programme Of
which WAS well guarded, and the action
taken lust when il was supposed il
would do the most GOOD TO the Federal
bunch, Tho persistence OF fhc Leather
wood candidacy for Mayor IN this and
in other organizations whore it has no
business 30 be. is one of the curious
and intruding things Of the campaign
which cannot fail to disgust the public.
For. there * no reason whatever ior
Lcatherwood 5 candidacy. except only
the appetite Of the Federal bunch for
Office for control and for graft.
The scheme had evidently been
talked over by a few of the commit
tee. for the endorsement OF a few who
were not there was openly announced
But the Women 5 Welfare club was not
in any way organized for political pur-
poses, and TO divert it into politics
was an abuse which can in no way be
defended Some of the more promi-
nent ladies in womcn>s work in TINS
city who are pronounced Americans,
expressly kept out of the committee
for the sole reason that their presence
in 1t might be considered MS having a
political purpose. Their scrupulousness
| IN this should have been fully respected
by the other members of the commit
tee; but it was not. 1t would nave
been perfectly easy for tho American
party ladies. who have the best inter
ests OF the city at heart in lis moral us
well as its material welfare, to have
ioincd the club in sufficient numbers
TO control its action. and make it an
American political club in place OF a
Federal bunch political club, INTO
which wrong position few Of It's
members evidently wish to betray IT.
1T is impossible TO believe that any
thing Of any material effect would
come out of such n snap action as
this, scheme sprung evidently for a
purpose. and personal purpose at
that We do not believe that the
women voters Of Salt Lake will, fol
one moment, give any particular
thought to little malignant scheme
like this. nor that it will be able tC
have any appreciabc effect upon The
campaign.
We depore the effort to turn wha
was meant for a good purpose into
foul political channel such as tho Fed
cral- bunch is directing it into; and W.
cannot but believe that the ladies wht
had 10 do with this scheme will, before
long, deeply regret their acQuiescene'
in such a plot.
The effort of the Federal bunch t.
get non.political associations. commit
tees. clubs, and orders of various knd'
to endorse the Lcatberwood candidacy
is one of tho most repTchcnslblc aetlv
itics of the present campaign. Those
who have the best interests of such AS
sociatious at heart must certainty dc
plorc any steps such as the Fedora
bunch is taking TO twist those associa
tions out of their proper relation &c
their own special purposes and 10 tbC
community. and make Of them mere po
itical machines. In so far rs this may
be Welded TO on the part of those ~
control of such organizations. it will bC
all the worse for the associations re
ferrcd 10. and such personal and politi
cal use Of organizations is in every wa!
TO he rcirchcndcd