Show AMERICAN PARTY PLATFORM Tho The American party glorying in its magnificent record in this city and pushing it into the thc front rank of Americas America's s 's progressive ive cities and seeing wit with patriotic satisfaction the spread of American principles throughout this state renews its pledges of fidelity to o these principles It opposes no religion quarrels with no creed d but asks only that all may JUay come out in ill the thought of independent manhood and womanhood throwing off priestly despotism in political civil business and social affairs and act tho the part of a a. completely disenthralled disen th American citizen I Wo rejoice in the tho fact that even now there thore is an n abatement of priestly tyranny and nd a freedom never nover before known in ill Utah and of criticism of the thc priesthood in meddlesome usurpations in controlling the thc voters of the I Mormon church in their political activities I To tho the people of Salt Lake City the thc American party needs no commendation Its works speak for it The splendid public improvements it has put in iii tho the upright effective economical methods it has pursued commend themselves to a fair minded and progressive citizenship Never has this city progressed as it has hasI I done under American control Novel Never has there been public work as under American direction never has haa there I been building as under the impulso impulse of tho the release of this city from the clutches of a reactionary and ancl lawless I priesthood never has this city so increased in wealth and nd in the exp expansion therein of all forms of business Those Thoo who oppose public improvement who were wro content with the former lethargy when to put in a sewer was opposed as a sin anti and nd to sprinkle a street denounced as a a a most dangerous precedent are arc all opposed to the American p party y They see sec ec in ill the policy of this party the thc end of the increasing brilliance of ofa a progress which has no reaction no period of gloom They know as it is known to all that no important city in the thc United States passed through the tho severe vore panic of ot two years ago as rs triumphantly and with as little cessation of advancement aa as u did Salt Lake The Thc American party deplores the defeat of the thc Capitol proposition at the election of ot last June and calls upon the state authorities to proceed with tho the construction of the capitol building to the thc full extent that available available avail avail- able funds fluids will allow The Thc American party believing that public work sho should bc be clone Lone by bona boua fide citizens calls attention to the fact that all contracts for public work pr provide vide that citizens and residents be given preference in such work We reiterate our belief in this principle and emphatically declare that alien labor should never nevel be ba employed when such employment means deprivation or hardship to our own fellow v citizens For all tho the advantages which it has conferred upon Salt Lake City for the abundance of work vork for the thc great energy in lii building construction for the progress of enlightened political freedom here and in other portions por per of the state we WC show to the thc people of this city that the American party is triumphantly deserving deser of their confidence on its record of splendid progress making achievement and say to our fellow citizens of every I form fonn or shade of religious opinion Come with us and we will do you good |