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Show .? Published Every Saturday i! WEEKLY PUBLISHING C0.f B GOOPWIN8. ' A. W. RAYBOULD, Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: deluding postage in the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, to all foreign countries, within the Postal for six m:nths. Subscriptions $4.50 per year. 8ingle copies, 10 cents. Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. 'Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postofflee at Salt Lake of Act March 3, 1879. . under the City, Utah, Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409 Salt Lake City, Utah. 311-12-1- 3 CITY COMMISSIONER CAMPAIGN LANGUISHES NON-PARTISA- nieasureable flight of fancy may the habitual politician the approaching row over who shall serve the city in the four-yeterm, with more jtv of commissioner for anotherthe ordinary vitality. The. very fact that it is in all its a seraph in which the fellow with the yt following among the citizens is sure to win oui renders i Mv devoid of the usual flambuoyant and vivifying1 t which centers around and infills a partisan campaign, be so humble, when party solidarity and party success are the ar essen-Jeatur- non-partis- . es an high-pitche- d, lues. almost pensive, attitude or lack of attitude of TOters in this forthcoming city election, envolving the selection city commissioners and a city auditor, has become so marked more observing have commented upon it freeiy. And this pent has not always assumed the same passivencss displayed voters; rather has it condemned the evident lack m interest affairs and the hope is being expressed, that as cne day for imary election rolls around, some show of life may impregnate iding campaign and bring home to the people their manifest to themselves and to the citv of their choice. i hus far the usual galaxy of willing candidates, some possessing embonpoint than fitness for office, are making the usual bid for ffnient. Some are debutantes while others are Cnoily hoses, Jve fattened so long at the public that tney would difficult, indeed, to exist if divorced, from their jobs, id recurring once again to this very evident embonpoint of some announced candidates, it may also be noted that tnev suggest More beer de beer than vere de vere ; but withall they have something and like a booming wind sweeping in from the fasatch range, are boldly essaying to climb the ladder of non-iflie ck iti nera HUE passive, . non-partis- L pie-count- p-VM- er Y n. preference red But candidates will be candidates just as boys will be bovs and women will be women until the end o time ; evi- dently there is nothing left to do but go to the poles November 27, primary election day, and cast your vote for the bunch you presume will best serve the city and its manifold interests. The required number will qualify barring an earthquake or some other malicious unforseen calamity, and then real election day will follow Tuesday, November 8. Be on your guard, Mr. Voter, select your .nun or men conscientiously and with a view to their fittness to fill the position to which they aspire. It is reported on good authority the two incumbent commissionauction block, ers, whose jobs are to be placed on the are to again seek preferment at the hands of the voters. Others said to be aching to serve the city and who have made formal announcement are Berkeley Olson, classed as democratic; Dr. R. M. Stewart. with republican tendencies ; Alex Y. Christensen, also with republican tendencies ; J. E. Beverage, an avowed democrat ; and Charles Lawrence who is said to be affiliated with the republicans; Walter C. Lyne, republican, and W. W. Barton, a progressive. All the above are out for city commissionerships and others may yet announce their candidacy before the time for filing nomination petitions has expired. For city auditor five candidates have taken the field, lhey are IT. S. McCann, incumbent democrat; George T. Judd, a republican, and Robert J. Deighton, public accountant, who is classed as a republican. Also W. F. Lanzenbacker, republican, and Alvin Kcdding-toa democrat. Politics be damned is the slogan of all the candidates, so far as may be gleaned from surface indications, it is rumored, with a spirit incubating and which, like ranting feathered fledglings, will be permitted to hatch at the psychological moment. Fair enough. fjjv no - N -- an n. rip-roarin- g, non-partis- an LEATHER WOOD FIGHT TAX EXEMPT PRIVILEGES 'MOOT AND the luxation shoe beginning to pinch harder and harder as x;kvics must be met out of peace time profits, the vn:e coun-e"hi' alarm the issues of tax free bonds lr being struck out T indiscriminately in every state. The sl,t,p privileges, such as are embodied in these jith V ever-increasi- ng de-kt- 1 ,1301 J' ef amoved, is becoming nation-wid- pt e. are now held by bond buyers who escape their income, thus doubling the tax rate on pro- - H).000,000 Mn) tax mi 0 tax-exem- ductive industry and the citizen who must work to make a living. Utah citizens are to be congratulated that their Republican representatives at Washington have sensed the dangers inherent in the growing unrest among taxpayers that the continued foisting of these bonds upon a nation, has brought about. Senator Smoot has introduced a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment which would permit the federal government to collect income taxes on all such securities ; and Congressman Lcathcrwood has tax-exem- pt tax-ridd- en |
