The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-30
FEDERAL BUNCH
IS AGAIN UP To
|TS0LD TRICKS
Plan on Foot to Form a "Non-
partisan Good Government"
League to Fool the
Public.
SEEKS TO GET RID
OF CHIEF GRANT
Candidates of Bunch for City
Commissioners Said to Be
w. II. Shearman and
Joseph Lippman.

The federal bunch is up to its old
tricks. This time it has evolved a
nifty and picturesque little political
plan. 1t is really too bad that it will
| be unable to put the happy little
| thought into execution, but as it is
one Of those intrigues that cannot
stand too much light, the outlook is
for considerable hard sledding Here
| is the plan:
In the first place, the bunch is eager
| for the Democrats to call convention
and nominate a ticket to Be voted upon
at the primaries AS soon as the Dem
ocrats determine what they will do
and the bunch is hoping that a deci
sion will be reached at this afternoon S
meeting of the city committee to call
a convention-the Republican city
committee will meet and decide not to
hold convention. In connection with
this determination it will be explained
in an extremely patriotic vein that the
| holding Of conventions and the nomi-
nation of candidates in the old way is
in opposition to the spirit of the com,
mission form of government law, and
that the intense patriotism of the Re-
publicans will not permit of anything
savoring of partisanship.
The Great Scheme.
After this action has been taken by
the Republican city committee, the
center of the stage will have been
cleared for the federal bunch. Then
the federal bunchers, in disguises that
they are hoping will defy detection,
will trip into the limelight and proceed
to form what will be termed "Good
Government league. This league, it
will be announced, is unalterably and
irrevocably opposed to partisan poll
tics. IT also will be announced that
the "Good Government league is the
only simon-pure and official supporter
of nonpartisanship in the city and that
it should be given recognition.
And Just to make the unsuspecting
public sure on that important point,
the bunch will effect coalition with
the social service commission. Then it
will be ready for business, or it will
think it is.
In the meantime the Republican
| cbairmen of the various election dis.
tricts, heroically aided by the federal
bunch, still in deep disguise, will have
held number of meetings and decided
upon the candidates that already have
been selected by the federal bunch
These candidates are said to be W.
H. Shearman and Joseph Lippman. but
the bunch is said to have kept the mat
ter secret from those two gentlemen.
So far as Mr.. Shearman is concerned,
he has announced himself as candi-
date and his petition containing the
required 100 names is ready for fling
As to whether or not he viii stand for
the federal bunch plan, however, re-
mains to be seen,
After Chief Grant.
AS to Mr.. Lippman, it is generally
understood that he is looking forward
to being candidate for mayor two
years from this fall, and unless he can
be persuaded that, if elected TO the
commission this fall: his mayoralty am
bitions will not suffer, there is some
doubt expressed as TO whether he will
| assist in raking the federal bunch
chestnuts from the fire, through the So
! called "Good Government league
movement
The election of Mr., Shearman and
Mr.. Lippman, or any other men that
the federal bunch may decide upon.
however, is only a part of the scheme
which has been so adroitly evolved by
the bunch. Over and above and fore
and aft of it all is the slogan, which
has not vet been uttered publicly.
''Get rid of Chief Of Police Grant
That in nutshell is the intent OF the
| plan that has been so carefully con-
cocted by the little coterie that has so
| long disgraced the politics of the state.