The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-18
Pledges Broken.

They say I'VE think It would be
better Ii you will forward to us a
formal application" which I did. /
VIII now say to these two pledge
sion TO publish any and all OF the
written communications that / sent
to them and let the people Judge
whether 7 had deceived them or not
affidavits which dispute the state
ments made by Peet.r Why don't
they publish those aff!davits and let
us know who made them. Mr.. Wal
lace forgot to state that he holds
four letters from genuine Demo
my favor. One OF them is from
Democratic county committeeman.
and, I believe. the only one that gets
his mail at Tremonton, He Is also
sloners. I could have furnished them
many more letters and had them
sworn to if necessary. but they said
that they did not want them. Messrs.
Wallace and Thurman should not hold
anything back. II I have committed
any crimes, deceptions or overt acts
that would compel men in their po-
sitions TO break their written pledges
and their word Of honor as they have
done to me, let them publish what
have done to the -four winds" They
state that the Box Elder Democratic
committee was against me,
Secret Meeting.
Democratic county committees and
even state committees have made
recommendations that they have
overridden. Why are they so par
tial to Box Elder county, IT was
the tariff articles In the Tremonton
Times There was a secret meeting
held in Tremonton that nominated
Elias Anderson; there was not
aY no
self and I learned Of 1t by accident.
The mayor OF Tremonton and Mr..
Binkle, Democrat, WHO had the
most names on the petition for post
master. and Alan Roach, a Demo-
cratic county committeeman, the two
former gentlemen live close to where
the meeting was held and the latter,
who could be reached by telephone,
knew nothing OF that meeting till the
next day There was no notice post
ed Of 1t that any Gentle ever saw
and yet 80 per cent OF Tremonton is
Gentle. It was a cute little trick
done to the finish, and Messrs. WAX
lace and Thurman have two reliable
communications telling them about IT.,
Wallace Informed.
Mr.. Wallace said that I was not
a resident of Tremonton." I helped
to make Tremonton. I have always
owned real estate there, done my
banking there, and In fact, Tremon-
ton has used me more rnan any 9TH
er person since her birth ten years
ago. TO get her rural routes, special
trains, reductions in freight rates,
mall service. depots, banks. settlers.
etc. Mr.. Wallace knew all about my
residence and he has my Salt Lake
telephone number in his Office What
an argument for a national commit
teemanl He knows that Elias An
derson,. whom he has just recon-
mended. If someone has not per-
suaded him to withdraw 1t, is scarce
ly known In Tremonton, as he lust
moved there this spring from Ell
wood.
1t Is not so much the postoffice that
they wanted to deprive mo OF or 10
elevate Mr.. Anderson to. Their OBJ
1ect was to suppress the Tremonton
Times, after they saw the course
II was taking on the tariff question,
They even went so far as TO tell me
that Judge Call OF Brigham City
would buy Il. and knowing that Judge
Call practically had the Box Elder
Journal, q so-called Republican pa
per. on his hands, I knew that 1t
meant the death OF the Times or a
paper that would work for the trust
interests.
They knew that the Times, under
my management, meant s6 per ron
sugar beets to the farmers, the same
as other states pay, and that meant
$40. 900 per year out OF the sugar
trusts pocket and into the farmers
pockets in Bear River valley, which
Is certainly big plum for someone
To get a slice Of,