The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-08
THE POLITICAL COMMISSION.

| The Smoot organ, insisting upon the
partisan nature of the arbitrary i'm
position of an emasculated form Of
commission government for this city
continues its poster-dodger editorials
in support of its partisan scheme
There could be nothing more partisan
than the patched up, frayed and hole.
in-the-wall commission form of gov.
ernment imposed upon this city by
| the Federal bunch. And yet. while
insisting that the Federal bunch party
should be given credit for this des.
insists that it ism t partisanshlp to sup.
port the Federal bunch, and tho
schemes emanating from that bunch
Yesterday mornings poster-dodger in
that organ called upon the business
men of this city to come TO the front
and help the Federal bunch out of its
dilemma IN the arbitrary imposition of
the bogus commission form Of govern
ment upon Salt Lake. The Federal
bunch has It's ticket all arranged, and
all that it wants is to have the busi.
ness men come forward and approve the
secret choice by the bosses for mayor
| commissioners, and auditor of this city
No more partisan scheme was ever
proposed than that which is now pro.
posed by the Federal bunch organ. 1t
wants the business men, the merchants
and everybody of influence and money
TO come to the relief of the Federal
bunch in the ensuing municipal election
and help that bunch to pack the city
with its subservient followers and serv.
ants. The Federal bunch programme is
all cut and dried; everything is decided
in secret conclave; and now all that is
| necessary is to have some sort OF pub
lie approval Of that dark lantern iunta
procedure.
An emasculuted commission form Of
government, arbitrarily imposed upon
the city IN defiance of the Will of the
people, followed by machine combiua-
tion to force secretly prepared but
pretendedly an apparently popular
choice ticket upon the people, is the
natural thing in the programme of the
Federal bunch. All that is needed is
to have some sort Of popular response
to the Federal bunch appeal, so that the
odium of springing secretly prepared
ticket upon the people will be in a
measure covered over by touch of
whitewash. The organ seems to think
that it may be little difficult to get
the business men and merchants to
come to the relief of the Federal bunch
in the bosses programme already de-
cided upon in the inner circles. 1t is
probably right IN this. The popular
response to an imposture like that is
apt to be little tnrdy and little
weak. Still, it would be hard, indeed,
if the Federal bunch, acting primarily
and through such persons rs it can in
fluence, could not get mp some sort OF
response in support Of the secret or
ders from the machine.
The curious thing about it all, is the
openness of the imposture, the utter stu
pidity of the bunch in thinking that
their moves, which are so absolutely
evident right on the surface. and which
are in fact merely the DEGREES of the
secret junta, can be hidden from the
people, and popular plea made in sup.
port of the secret move and secret
ticket. Any one sufficiently in the
confidence of the Federal bunch can learn
any day now what the ticket is that has
been agreed upon, and what the pro.
gramme is to give some sort of show of
popular support for that ticket. 1t is
all an utter sham, to be sure, but still.
sham, humbuggery, and false pretense
comprise the life of the Federal bunch
and the strength Of its malign and evil
movements. In this new development
the bunch is merely pursuing its old
tactics, and those tactics are so evident
to the public that it is doubtful if. no
matter what effort may be made, a
showing at all calculated to deceive the
people can be staged and pulled off at
this time