The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1920-04-03

apprehend and convict them as are the
bomb throwers. In the last few week:
there has been presented to the State s
Attorney evidence sufficient to warrant
his apprehending certain citizens fol-
their implication in the throwing of
bombs, but the States Attorney re,
fused 70 act upon this testimony, the
reason being, as / charge, because il
was political. A few weeks ago a
political friend and worker with the
present States Attorney, just after
dark, drove up to his home in an au-
tomobile and was getting out of the
car when another automobile drove up,
with the lights out and without a num-
Der, the curtains drawn so that no one
could see who was inside, and some
one showed out a sawed-off shotgun
loaded with slugs and murdered Moss
Ennght while he was getting out Of
his car, and the assassin 5 ear drove on.
Enright' 5 reputation was bad; he was
not one of our best citizens according
to all records and reports, and yet with
in five days from the time he was muir
dered, the criminals who had murdered
him had been apprehended. Do you
not think that under the same condi-
tons and the same power to examine
witnesses that this same States At
torney could not convict the men who
threw the bomb at Mrs. Clark's homei
Are you not interested then in who the
next States Attorney will be, and are
you not interested that the State s At
tOmey should be a man big enough,
honest enough and fair enough to give
everybody, every citizen, no matter
what his political affiliations, a fair
and honest deal For five years Viii
liam Hale Thompson has managed the
affairs of this City and who is there
in the City today in whom you would
trust the protection of your homes, your
wives and your children than to the
protection of an officer like the present
Mayor of this Ctyi Do you not think
that he, together with the men he now
selects as Ward Committeeman, would
be as safe to select the next State IS
Attorney as any other set of men you
could find in Cook County, Ny friends,
what the personnel of the next Com
mitteeman in the Third Ward is, is not
so important as the principles he stands
for. 1t makes little difference who
the man is if he is owned by CONNER
eialized newspapers, such as the Tn
bune and Evening News. They can or
der and control one man as well as
another; nor is it of very great diff
erence who the man is if he stands up
manfully and fearlessly for the great
principles for which our Mayor has
been fighting for five years. Mayor
Thompson cannot win this fight alone.
He must have the power of his own
political party. Not only that, he must
have the power given him by the peo-
pie who are back Of it. 1 care not
how many newspapers nor how much
money nor what big corporations are
against Mayor Thompson, if the peo-
pie of this City stand with him, he
will win.
Personally, know no difference be
tween one American citizen and an
other, so far as political matters are
concerned. This Government is as
much for one man as another and it
makes little difference who his parents
are, where they were bonn, and whether |
they have come to this Country and |
have honestly made this their home, be-
coming citizens here; their rights are
equal to any one else's. 1 do not be-
lieve, however, that any man should
come here voluntarily from some other
country, because he believes he can
better himself, and attempt to dictate
to anyone whose forefathers were
brought here against their wishes and |
who have been compelled to be Amer
lean citizens, and say to these Amer
iean-born citizens that they shall not
have all the rights of American eiti-
zens- no matter what their color or
race. Let us be fair and Just; under
no other conditions can we reach the
goal we seek-GOOD GOVERNMENT
FOR ALL This Government was not
made for me, it was not made for you
alone, but it was made for us all, and
under its protecting, guiding hand we
must find some means by which we can
live our own lives in our own way and
let all other American citizens live
their lives in their own way.
Some nine months ago 1 was ap-
pointed by the Board Of Education of
this City as its Attorney. I did not
take the position for the money there
is in it. could make more money in
private practice, but it was pointed
out to me by the Mayor Of this City
that if I took the position could do
q great work among the children Of
the public schools. Through prejudice
and race hatred some Of our children
were not receiving the opportunity of
others to participate in the benefits Of