The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-27
ITO BEAT THE AMERICANS. >

II is the open wish and constantly
uttered intent of the Federal bunch
partisans, and their chief effort and de-
sire is so manifested. that their
hearts desire is ''to beat the Ameri-
cans and this al the same time that
they profess their .partisanshipl
They arc simply masquerading under
n-partsausbip in order to win par
tisan advantage. This is so evident,
it is such an open pronouncement, that
their pretense of non. .partsanship is an
evident and flagrant fraud.
The Federal bunch has in mind but
the one object in its activi-
ties all the time. and that is party and
partisan advantage. If it can bring
about result that will give the Re-
publican party and Republican parti.
sans the majority of the commission,
then it is prepared TO be content But
anything short of this it will balk at,
and will reject with scorn, because
nothing but psrtisanship will satisfy
- the gang, and, nothing but PARTISAN
ship will be worked by them when op-
portunity offers.
Nothing short of complete control will
satisfy the Federal bunch and the
bosses That control would mean The
absolute political supremacy of the
Smoot machine in this city. machine
whose headquarters would be at Pro
vo, and whose evil work would be in
flicted upon Salt Lake, to the damage
and affliction of the people here both
in their persons and i'll their property
rights,
The unscrupulous gang is hungry for
power. Any sort of subterfugc by
which it can acquire that power Will be
welcome TO it; but nothing else than
that will content their hungry clamoT.
The gang is out for the political spoils.
for partisan advantage, and it rallies
with unanimous steps to the pie coun-
ter II any person, organization, or
combination of any kind offers the
complete control Of the offices TO the
gang by giving it majority of the
commission; then the bunch will use
that organization to effect its purpose
in so far as possible But anv PROPOSE
ton. no matter in what good faith it
is made, no matter how actually non
partisan, no matter how much it mi ght
promise for good to the people of this
city the Federal bunch Will reject un-
less il gives That bunch the partisan
spoils that would, follow successful
election.
From the very first the gang has
had its political advantage in mind. and
has pushed it 10 the front during the
present campaign. 1t sought to make
the people believe that it had prepared
IA non partisan form Of commission gov
ernment for this city; even when this
imposture was fully exposed ii had the
gall 10 present its bastardlzed form OF
commission government as promising
good results since the commission form
of government had worked well else
where. The bunch did this, we'll know
ing that the form Of commission gov
ernment which il has forced upon Salt
Lake City is so radically different from
the commission form of government
elsewhere which has proved success,
that scarcely the slightest kinship rs
to be discovered between them. Other
forms Of commission government are
non pa rtisan. Ours is strictly and alb
solutely partisan from first TO last. And
so the talk about q non-partIsSn com
mission form of government has no ap-
plication here under present ciraum-
stances, and the people are not war
rnntcd in allowing themselves TO he i'm
posed on by any such political fakery.