The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-02
District Workers Count Saints
as Supporters of So-Called
Citizens Nonpartisan
Ticket.
LEADERS NO LONGER
DENY APPARENT FACT
Ecclesiasts Busy in Every
Ward Passing Instructions
to Vote Against
Americans.

IASVASSERS for toe Citizens
ticket are now at work in every
voting district in the city. These
canvassers are moi asking whether
the voters prefer the Citizens ticket 10
the American ticket. whether they pre-
fer Park to Bransford for mayor or
Sheaman To KimbaiI for auditor. The
| inauiry at each residence is just this:
How many Latter-day Saints live
here!i
| Latter-day Saints are counted by tho
c3uvassers for the Park ticket rs sup
porterS of the so-called Citizens move
ment Geutiles are counted as OPP
popents of the hierarchy's ticket The
official canvassers of the so-called Cit-
liens party are not only admitting but
declaring that their ticket is the church
ticket. They declare to tho Saints that
il is the viii Of the church, that the
Park ticket be elected.
| This information WAS impaired to
American party headquarters mt least
ten times yesterday by telephone or
otherwise.
Backers of Park.
The leaders of the Citizens party
have made the Issue in this campaign.
| G. w. Niblev, presiding bishop of tho
j
next in succession to tho presidency Of
the Mormon ,chlIrch:~--Senator Reed
Smoot. the head OF the federal bunch;
| Apostle c. w. Peurose. one of the most
ancient aud venerable authorities of tho
Mormon cburch-these arc the heads of
the so-caIled Citizens movement which
is behind the Park ticket in the cam
paign.
After failing in every other effort to
DESTROY the American partv Mormon
church politicians secured the passage
by the recent legislature of the So
called commission form of government
for Salt Loke. They called it the Des
Moines plan. but they stripped the Dcs
Mones plan Of every feature that
would commend it TO the public.
Then they declared it antaeonistic 10
the spirit of the law for any party 10
name ticket. The spirit OF the law
was the destruction Of the American
party. for that was the ayowed pur-
nose OF it as declared by church leaders
in the legislature. so that any purpose
other than the destruction of the Amer
lean party was necessarily aDtagonistlc
to the spirit of the law.
Americans Left OFF,
They declared that the spirit Of tho
law contemplated 'nonpartisan y
ticket Therefore they nominated a
noupartisan'' ticket; This ticket
they cbristened the .'Citizens' tick
ct. but among the candidates on this
ticket there appears not the name of Il
single American. Whatever may he
the name, the ticket is only the anti
American ticket and nothing else.
To divide the Americans the Republi-
cans put up another ticket. They
colled it the ''Good Government tick.
ct and tried To secure for it the votes
of a large number Of Americans, hop
ing thereby TO keep the Americans from
qualifying at the official primary elec-
tiou. The loysl Americans of Salt Lake
at the primary defeated this purpose
and the American ticket qualified, the
''Good Government ticket being left
behind.
The day after the primary election
was held Apostle Reed Smoot gave
ball at the Hotel Utah, On that occa-
siou Samual C. Park. Citizens nominee
for mavor was presented to President
Joseph T. Smith and other prominent cc-
clesiasts rs "our' candidate for mayor
1t was made clear that in ease Of Mr..
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