Show I NO ONE ELSE IS PROUD i j 4 It Is a blessing you have havo ve a good I I opinion of oC yourself said the tho wise vise wiseman t man to the fool No one else has t J The llie morning organ of what Is called 1 the he American party part jubilated to 0 the I extent exten of oC more than a column over the the triumph l of at first American party parly administration sery gery one else tL 4 has been willing to forget that that pasti past i l il two years ears an and the awful record rec-or 1 o of hit t the called so-called American merIcan part party There t 4 was s BO so much that hurt the city that T 1 Inflicted d a a lasting damage that involved in 77 1 f r. r Salt Lake In scandal that that an any V. V t reasonable friend of tho the new Dew party part i would WO have gone forward silent as as to the pas past and hopeful as possible that I the future would be better belter For instance the boast is made that 4 the new party received a legacy of at eighty eight thousand dollars Indebtedness from froin the Morris administration and had had to to pay It That Is the reason remon the new administration got a quarter mil on l ol ars behind lInt Hut r residents s of t th city r m. m r remember that bat a U e- e I 1 K g t 1 or or an any r debt dehiL hu has been been challenged h- h inti den Pil 1 by lw the thc Democrats Cel r the Uk when asked ased to Investigate In if 4 1 esti tc the charge of a deficit at the t beginning of ot the American I 1 party part administration adt adI ad ad- t I ministration dodged the Issue and would not not meet Il it We Ye dont don't know i I i or not there was a deficit 4 t Jf there was vas it belonged to the lie Dern- Dern j Dera-j j I I I r In either case one of or the two American party or Democratic party par- par parl ty ty-is ty is lying about that eighty eight thou thou- Vand and dollars The new now party part has lias the hardi hardihood lOod to I L boast of new sidewalks that have been in lit tile the past two years rears Nothing Noth Noth- I ing is said of or the sidewalks that the the I II 4 I people have ha been heen forced to but hut I L which have never nover been connected by byj j tt r 4 street t crossings That Is the city's I t part part of ot sidewalk Improvement ement and antI tho cit city hasn't done Its part palL Also II lif 4 nothing I is is said o ot tile tho unpaved ft cor- cor corI cor j I Ici t ner j which arc are also the city's cily's war work vork j i rind Which V tim tho city cily has not done Nothing g at t all an is said of or the tho scores I Il t hr CUl cases S in iii which property owners I f y f. f h IPen compelled to pa pay for side side- I al that timi never lEave havo been heen built N In I JH said of or the f fact c that the t I r. r I now in in city office lias 8 collected I A and kept for fol more than a year cash L i J k for the construction of or walks Walks and and I never Dover ov oven n started tho the construction That piece of or robbery h is I not o bragged about Io It I t 1 1 Once more we find fild the new party part r j boasting of the UIO conduit But Dut the fact fac t that the new party paid seventy thousand thou thou- 9 sand san dollars to have that conduit plastered plaster plas plas- ter is not m mentioned And yet I strange strange-as as t the statement must be tb that thatIs t Is precisely what the new party council coun conn T cil cli did ll It gave seventy thousand dollars dol do L lars ars to have that c plastered t so o 3 oit 1 it I it would carry carry water And then again t i. i 0 between the Democratic and the American Am S parties there there there-Is is a shameful bad bm I J piece of graft I i We Ve Vear ar are not lot tr trying t to note I all the flu I t I am amusing boasts at the end of the first firs t r An American Amerlan erl n party administration But Dut t l' l one oIe oue may bb bO mentioned It is s stated state I j I h 1 by the newspaper apologist for every tY thing hung i the n tJ new w party does that the ne new r t 1 party part has hos kept within Its reV revenues in inthe i fI the administration of cil city affairs And l that IS is shockingly untrue The new I 1 J r party has has established a new record for extravagance for wastefulness 4 1 r and for inability to pay an any attention t- t whatever er to Income Twice raising H. H 4 the taxes added to tho be receipt of or a million dollars from the water and andi i sewer bond fund has not been enough I They have spent nil all of It and have Involved tho the city in in a mountain of or debt besides An 1 hero are arc some other things the new party paper does not mention It G does does does' not not sp speak spik k of Us its own attempt to t S i It 4 t I i. i I 4 4 i i i. d V t 1 r 7 j. j l' l t td d. d make the bunco game a u party Issue that It ft suppressed news of a ten thousand thousand thou thou thou- sand s dollar robbery robber and fought the count county and and state authorities when those these tried II to catch the thieves eR It does noes not t toll 1011 JI of or the scandal of or the he palice po- po lice department department-a ment-a ment a bad ball state ot or affairs af af- a- a fairs which drove e the tile chief chie from place and made malle an end of or Mayor Thompson's Thompsons Thomp sons son's administration It says nothing of or Detective Raleigh and his hits shadowy departure from from Cram the public service ser It H does not It loll ll of Frank Swenson and why he wasn't re elected city tren It makes maws no mention of th the year delay dolay it enforced In the HIP matter o of the street railway franchise It Il says lYK nothing noth rn tUg ing of the tho scandals In the tho wat water r office of ur the wi wretched etched work of the lire Jiro department department de tIe- of tho the confusion contusion in in ever every office office nor nor of Its own attempt to steal from the tile city the price of printing an ordinance that never was passed p Th The truth about these two years is that tho tile American party has made a avery avery avery very bad brul record Another term of that character would amount to a public public pub pub- lic lie disaster If the tho new officers shall do 10 no bettor better then the lie people must t suffer stIffer for now men are aro the representatives rep rep- that have been heen chosen What the they do o the tho city cily will have to stand for Let us hope that the new year willbe will willbe be less scarred b by scandal that a belter hetter bet bel better ter attention to business will mark marJ the i activity of or the men who have been elected that the city be made to live Jive within its income that public em em- be compelled to earn the tile mone money the they get from the tile public that graft ma may cease cease en even In tile the health department de tIe- and that the street de tie- p ma may in some measure experience ex cx p an improvement And asi aside e from that let Jet us ilS all aU agree t that hat we never again want what is c called the tile American party part to win an e election |