Show LIBERAL misrepresentation my attention has been called to a paper issued by the liberal city committee dated october 26 1889 and entitled campaign document no 3 address of the liberal committee reviewing the peoples peopled party 6 declaration of 04 principles it is a somewhat lengthy document and has received a widespread wide spread circulation amongst all classes the portion I 1 desire to say a word about occurs on page 6 of the little pamphlet under the heading records compared the liberal city committee there offer the following icae we have advocated free schools and better schools and whenever we have obtained power in a school district we have given you better educational facilities and we have made no distinction with reference to race religion or politics take the twentieth ward kard school district as the latest example the liberals have improved and beautified the dingy old school room until it is cheerful and ana attractive and they have furnished teachers of the highest graded grade 11 it may not be out of place to briefly refer to the methods adopted by our liberal friends to obtain control of the twentieth school district it is well known that their efforts at the annual election of school trustees were characterized by bulldozing and assuming power never legally conferred upon them their actions all through that meeting were such that even members of their own party were disgusted to see law and order outraged notwithstanding the fact that the retiring trustees had entered into a written agreement with the then ernei principal of the school for the next year mr horace cummings the trustees claiming to be elected set aside th a agreement completely ignoring its force and effect and simply told mr cummings was necessary there should be change they even discharged janitor who had occupied position for some length of satisfactorily he was told that services were dispensed with J a complete change was made in school staff although not a complaint abut had been made as to efficiency ncy or capacity of any them the only apparent can they were members of the peoples peopled party this and this alone can constitute their offensiveness in the eyes of the trustees now mr powers pray tell us how you can reconcile this with your declaration that you have made no distinction des with reference to race religion or politics 11 before the advent of the liberal trustees a successful well filled school was running to the satisfaction at least of the trustees and the great majority of the taxpayers and v voters oters of that district immediately upon the new trustees qualifying last july why was it necessary to dispense with services of the then teaching force and why was it necessary to import teachers from the east the answers to these questions are best known to the liberal party where the responsibility for the change also rests under ILI the circumstances was it surprising that the people after their rights had bad been stolen and justice had bad been outraged should refuse to patronize the school moreover why should the liberals refuse to take their own medicine previous to their advent not a single non mormon child attended the school rut but just as soon as they assume control a fearful howl is made on account of the people wi thawing their children the result is that the school is a complete failure under liberal rule and some 1500 a year is being paid for the tuition of a mere handful of children mr orlando W powers next tells us that the liberals Liberal have shave improved and beautified the dingy old schoolroom until it is cheerful and attractive 11 the baldness and audacity with which this assertion is made are staggering why there is not a man woman or child in the twentieth ward but knows this is an out and out malicious fabric fabrication atio i i not a word of truth in the whole sentence truly the Liber liberals alsI are making a record and in this respect the Peo peopled pleIs party have no particular ambition to compare 0 orlando I 1 you have overshot the mark and ibe the effect will act as a boomerang on your own head you have maligned your opponents and disgusted your friends next time have a little regard for truth see that no 4 before it is finally circulated is thoroughly revised the following from the late trustees puts at rest this question to whom it may concern we the undersigned undersigner under signed trustees of the twentieth eth school district up to july 8 last jast hereby certify that under our administration as trustees of that district brict the alterations and improvements of the interior of the schoolhouse building together with the fencing of bf the school botand lot and also the furnishing of the seats desks maps charts etc for the school use were made and provided during our administration as such trustees HENRY OLIVER CHARLES H WRIGHT if un hinging gates erected before the advent of the liberals tends to improve and beautify then they have done it sure enough it is ad even that the present trustees seem willing to do right by both parties in relation to the schoolhouse but there is some peculiar fatality about their orders being carried out if they command their orders are certainly not dot obeyed the sunday school has been held there for many years but now for some reason the place is not prepared and ready for them other meetings are similarly treated and have to be given up entirely under mormon rule such things did not occur the liberals Liberal sJ were granted the use of the building on application a it which of course was not nothing ng tut but right but under the p present ent condition of things people are apt tp IP ask themselves whether the janitor or the trustees or the liberal city committee are running things enough has probably been said add the peoples party have been shamefully misrepresented whether ignorantly or not it mattera matt erb very little the gentlemen signing the document are responsible for the contents thereof they have eitner been terribly imposed upon and thus ignorantly abused and m misrepresented resen the peopled party or else they have knowingly and intentionally misstated facts for the accomplishment ment of their own ends and purposes to the injury and detriment of their opponents it is bad enough in either case and justice demands reparation will 0 W powers chairman louis hyams secretary J M harvey A L williams J MJ Ricketts liberal city committee make it and circulate the truth as widely as they have falsehood A L MURDOCK SALT LAKE CITY nov 12 1889 |