Show LETS TO THE RECORD 1 the liberal party can wall afford to aio hie public nicil point to ila tt alli pride and cill tor a reckoning the public ran well to bo faced ami give alio llio liberal party the reckoning the liberal party took control of he municipality of ogden a little more than live months ngu how they obtained that control need not be discussed just now we observe that they are not sa ready to ask for a reckoning on that part of their administration we promise to freely give it to them they found the city alive with progress and increasing every day in wealth size and reputation for daod the success of the liberal party was not necessary to secure lie of this growth it began before they thought of winning the power and would have kept on had they failed tho reckoning chona nothing in this direction out of which they can ex bract any pride they found alie officials energetic n carrying out public improvements as fast as they were necessary the city hall was completed the gravel tramway was in operation the streets were being graded as fast and as well as they are today to day the hilla were beins cut down additional water had been purchased and land given for an imposing territorial building electric light gas telephone and street car franchises were conferring their respective spec tive benefits the union passenger and freight depots were under con Bt ruction and all that lias ever been done on the pacific short line was there to tor itself la there anything in any of these or similar items which the liberal party wants to include in its reckoning they found taxation low credit unimpaired a financial policy bound as lie granite of our hills an administration economical ft ithone parsimony and conservative without mossback ism alie city like its people WAS cautious about debba which it be burdensome to pay and was all the time adding to its fame as a place where in menta could not fail nor commercial rain strew its dreadful wrecks the reckoning which the liberals solicit shows a marked contrast with this but let us go on I 1 they found a city where morality was encouraged vice punished where drinking saloons were few and did not prosper in defiance of good order where gambling was unknown at least to all except its small of devotees othere houses of prostitution did not lift their hideous bead nor lewd women openly their shame where every street was respectable busy by ilay and quiet by where children spent their evenings dt home and mothers hearts had no cause to grow sick at the of the snares set for the feet of their sons does the liberal partia point aith pride to its in the field of we have enumerated some of the things wherein alie reckoning does not afford to the liberals any satisfactory gain let us now point out some of the things which it show leaving the question of gain or loss to the decision of each voter tho party in power lias changed the time honored and familiar names of the street ostensibly in tat or of patriotism and order but really in favor 0 prejudice and confusion it lias put the police in uniform but has not sharpened their ayea to the detection of crime they look so longingly at their own reflections in the windows aliat they fail to see the hourly vitiation of municipal ordinances it stopped alie w ork of cutting down fifth street hill which it found in progress but commenced recommenced re and completed it this with the continuation of the work in other places which was already going on constitutes ita boasted improvements it lias increased tho number of officials and increased alie salaries in borne cases as much as threefold three fold it has doubled the tabea and claims that this will wake ua rich it does not tell us what the increased taxes are for unless they are to meet the increased salaries it lias made an enormous grant of land and money as a bonus to the builders of the ogden short line alie taxpayers will leave to foot the bill it lias bargained to pell the water works but we are not told what it will do with the money it it gets any TC will spend means to put up shabby little street boards but none to ornament and preserve a pure spring of water it lias claimed possession of land owned and for a generation by a religious denomination and has giden permission to a circus to pitch its tent on his land and exhibit within hearing of alie church all in outrageous violation of every principle ot cognion decency it lias winked at the of variety shows rc sorts rambling idly ill inking saloons and brothels around which cluster degraded degia ded men and vile women ft ho hiss at respectability and boako morality a jest and yet it calls for the reckoning ind is proud of its achievements I 1 by alie record then let it lie judged 1 must beware of fridays daiy diy before yesterday hia audacity received a check from judda berry of who dropped heavily on the claim that cormons mormons aro not entitled on juries wo fear that kentucky will not be altogether happy until he geta an enactment under which cormons mormons ore not allowed to breathe hia defeat of last friday is ominous att him boware of the ides of august BOTH and kilrain wore pine pitch pla stera on their boldea when thay went into the ring to put on plasters before the bruises are received id perli aps of that school which ile crewl that an ounce 0 prevention la better thai a pound of cure |