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Show j w THE Cl 4 T IZE If you call this efficiency in government, Mr. Burton, we are unable to comprehend or understand you. When the people stand to lose one million dollars on one of your jobs, what would the loss be on numerous jobs? As the head of the public safety department, is it not true, Mr. Burton, that the criminal element has overrun our city, committing murder, rape, highway robbery as never before and to such an extent that the people fear for their very lives? In fact, Commissioner Burton, what have you done or accomplished that the people of this city should give you a third term in office? Mayor Neslen asks for a fourth term upon his record for being a good fellow. As a financial business manager of the city he has sat on the fence and has cheerfully passed the buck watched and permitted without objection the spending of large sums of money. In fact he has been one of the biggest spenders without consideration from where all the money is to come from. Of all men in the city commission, Mayor Neslen should have been the greatest objector to the draining of the cemetery fund which now ought to have at least $265,000, and which today has not a dime. From the first pioneers of this city, up to the present, people have paid in their hard earned money for perpetual care of the graves of those who have gone before us, yet the living are taxed in addition. We abhor the very thought of our commissioners taking a cemetery fund in their mad desire to spend money. There is no excuse for it, and the people should demand of the commission that this money be immediately returned in full. Last fall when Commissioner Moran announced that he had saved $75,000 in his department, who were the first to yell for N MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN We ask the voters to read the headlines of the daily papers for the past two weeks. The recitals of the orgies of crime in Salt Lake should be sufficient to cause the defeat of Neslen andy Burton. The passage of the Baumes law in New York state, providing for life imprisonment on a fourth conviction is driving criminals out of New York City. Is Salt Lake making a bid for them? Have we already numbers of these men among us? It is time that the people demand proper police protection. Must a city of this size go without a night patrol in the residence districts? 'What are we getting for our taxes? Our mayor dresses up in all sorts of uniforms, devotes his time to official handshaking and apparently cares for only the superficial and pleasant duties of his office. He courts publicity, loves the limelight and revels in taking part in public affairs. He is the hafy A great traveler at the py greeter and a lovely citys expense and a champion of the policy of let things drift. This may be all very well, but what about the serious side of his job? What work does he do and what has he accomplished? Mayor Neslen should be defeated on his record. Without animosity, we state that it is our belief that his administration has been one of lack of capacity and inefficiency. hand-shake- r. POLITICAL COMEDY Commissioner T. T. Burton, in his paid political advertisement, refers chiefly to his accomplishments while head of the Department of Streets. Mr. Burton has not been in this department for nearljr two years and it is significant that he refers so little to liis activities as head of the Department of Public Safethis money? True, he claims to have reduced VICE and CRIME and Let us elect men to office who will be more conservative ty. that he is trying to make Salt Lake a Better City. We innoin handling the peoples money. cently ask how? Is it by shutting his eyes to the outrageous The voter should remember that he cannot spend the money conditions now existing in this city? Is it by allowing all sorts and have it too. of vice and crime to go on with little interference, so much so, A CHALLENGE that accusations and charges of graft and tribute have become common on the lips of the people? The people of this city believe in the enforcement of the Neslen appears one night in the garb of a fireman and anlaw. Conditions are bevond the bounds of deeenev. Salt Lake other night dons his uniform as chaplain in the National Guard. conis Lake a is Salt Crime is Wide Rampant. Open City The mayor is certainly a lightning change artist and like the men. and confidence for men, holdup burglars gregating place flea is very difficult to put your finger on. All These are facts and cannot be denied. Are the rumors of whole- proverbial to all men. As a matter of fact, we understand some of things C. is Neslen Clarence sale protection and graft true? mayor his supporters advocate his election on the ground that he satand T. T. Burton is Commissioner of Public Safety and the re- isfies everybody. We grant that he is the champion Yes Man. offices is of administration their the for proper sponsibility Possibly the people prefer such a man, rather than one who theirs. will do something constructively for the advancement of the city. If you are conscientious in your belief, you cannot vote for Mayor Neslen or Commissioner of Public Safety Burton. SILENCE If you stand for progress and law enforcement in this city, Is the Democratic party proud of the administration of Burton. and Neslen vote should against register your you Mayor Neslen and of Commissioner of Public Safety Burton The Salt Lake Telegram, under date of October 2Gth, prints in view of the wide open situation in Salt Lake City? Does the following editorial : the Democratic party claim that moral conditions under the& CRIME RAMPANT j supervisions are to be boasted of, or are they really ashamed alarmIts not been many years since the public became terribly of their representatives? What has the Democratic party to ed every once in a while about a crime wave sweeping the country. Now we are engulfed by crime about every day of the year and say regarding the allegations made against leading members of murder there is but little outcry against the rampage of banditry, their party in connection with the race track investigation? and vice. "What have they to say regarding the inefficiency and extravaSalt Lake and surrounding communities have been so overrun with crime recently that one would expect great mass meetings to gant expenditures of their road commission? Echo seems to be called, reverberating outcries to be made by the public, with demands that a drastic, sweeping cleanup be made. A few years ago answer, nothing. Where is Dean Bennion and the Betterment when we were less hardened to crime the public would have been League? We have not heard a peep out of Dean Bennion reshocked and frightened into terror and action. Now we take our garding moral conditions of Salt Lake City. Why so quiet, newspaper accounts of local safe blowings, burglary, rape, slayings, wholesale bootlegging, general vice, etc., just as matters of course. Dean Bennion? Are you not aware of these conditions or do We are not even excited by the constant reign of crime. you regard silence and discretion as the better part of valor? Unquestionably we are being preyed upon here by organized V criminals. They are able to perpetrate one crime after another and escape detection. The whole situation has its most disconcerting angles. What flagrant crime will take place in Utah next and be bulletined on the front page of every newspaper in the country? When will there be a wholesale cleanup of the criminal gang or gangs at work here? The crime situation constitutes one of our paramount and pressing problems. The local law enforcement agencies are challenged to exert their utmost activity to clear this city of its foul criminal menaces. TIME FOR A CHANGE This is an old slogan, often meaningless, but it is now Time For a Change. Salt Lake City has boon standing still. The city is not ad- - |