The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-07
BASE OPPOSITION CAMPAIGN.

The abusive. scandalous. and scurril-
Gus campaign which has been conducted
by the opposition papers in this city
is disgrace to the people of Salt Lake.
Nothing has been too vile, too odious.
or too false TO find place in the columns
of that press. There have been per
sonal assaults. lies manufactured by
wholesale, charges Of fraud put forward,
when. in fact. no fraud was contem.
plated 1t all, save such frauds as they
themselves could commit
IT has been a campaign of vitupcra.
tlon and villiany on the part of the OPP
position, beyond all precedent. II was
stated when the law was urged imposing
the commission form OF government
upon this city without the citY's con
sent, that the virulence of politics would
be absted and that all municipal ques.
tions would he settled on the basis of
bnsincsslikc rcctitudc and good faith.
Instead, we have a viler opposition
than ever before.
Honesty and good faith has been
the motto and the guide of the Ameri-
can party throughout. The Americans
have conducted 4 campaign of Justice
fairness, and honor They have sue
cessfully repcllcd the mendacious and in
cendiary charges of the opposition, and
have on merit won the fight.
The American party has shown in
the management Of this campaign that
il deserves to succeed. II has con
Quoted the campaign with clean hands
and with high motives, for the best in
forests and advancement of Salt Lake,
There has been nothing in any way OBJ
icctionablc done, projected, or devised
by the American party management,
This is In marked contrast TO the
scurrility and falsity of the campaign
Of the opposition press Tho Deseret
News has held the advance in the sean
dulous falschoods, viudictiVcncss. aud
unscrupulous venom of this campaign.
1t has been insistcut every night upon
its false and cmbittcrcd charges against
the American party. II has stopped
at nothing, it has shown itself full OF
puous in presenting scandalous nara
tions Of untruths that would have
brought the blush Of shame TO n Tam.
many healer. The Smoot organ, while
fully as INSCRIPTIONS ard "ecklcss as
the Dcseret News in presenting lurid
tales against the American party, has
not been as wholly devoted 10 the op-
position cause as has the evening or
gan of the church, II has been evident
all the time that. while the Smoot organ
was willing TO have its columns de.
based to the most degraded degree in
the presentation of falsehoods, both di.
rect and positive, rs we'll as by in
nuendo, it has prosecuted its campaign,
while vindictive and low-mindcd, with
weakness and want of hearty vim that
has been noticeable. 1t has not been
for Park; In fact, il has presented him
in such unfavorablc light to the people
that his friends were fully justified If
calling 1t off In its defense of him. 1t
did not forget that Mr.. Lcatherwood.
its fayorite candidate, was beaten by
MI fafk, ana by his supporters kept
off the official ballot Hence il has had
d crouch all through the campaign, and
has been willing to give Park slight
dig to his disadvantage on occasion.
Still, its emnity to the American party
has been pronounced, and it is vocifer-
Gus against it, INSCRIPTIONS and vile in
It's dirty work, to the last degree
We do not doubt that the people of
Salt Lake City have noted the differ.
ence between the scaudalous methods OF
the opposition and the truthful. high
toned conduct of the campaign by the
American party, and for this reason
alone the good people of this city ought
to give their votes and their support
to the American ticket, as we fully be-
licye they will do.
PODCEPC'S cDrhm