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Show U j i 1 THE CITY GOVERNMENT. Hfk ! j J The News in a recent editorial raised a bit- Hfj!' , I f ! ter lamentation over the fact that an official Hfi y 1 ! count made the Council of this city Republican. HP 1 1 ! I It did not In so many words way that, but its Bjl 1 I meaning was clear. Instead of saying "an official HM' '' m count," it said "From that which has been effected K ) I , recently, the fear has arisen that the good work of B f j the November election is likely to be marred in B , j pi: the very manner that was deemed a menace to L J , LI1 municipal progress." It then mafces a plea for a K , g non-partisan city government, and seems to be B jit very sore over the nomination and election of Br ) 4 91 Chlef of Folice Lyich- fl ' IK The editorial should be studied by all those Bf ' , ffl people who think this is an American commu- HHe t ! iwt in $fl nity and run on American lines. Hj I j S When it comes to politics, tue News is not an h ' i " 11 American newspaper. It thinks it legitimate for a fl I j J itB man to run for office on a political ticket and then fl ' Fi in from the first moment he is installed in office to B 1 1 m betray his party by every vote ire may cast. Two B ' ! years ago certain men were elected to the Council B I' as Republicans. Republicans elected them. But B , j, !m from the first they made clear that they did not B' I , til llol(1 the slightest fealty to the party that had K '' ' iiilll made their election possibly, and the News de- B ' I 111 fended their course, and whenever they were de- B'' ! i it'll nounced for tlie renegrades they were, the News V' ffi 11 came to their defense with elaborate arguments V ' ' k?1 !l to Prove that it was their duty to vote for what B ' 1 1 ill iey deeme(l the best Interests of the city, re- fl' i d am gardless of party obligations. The whole city, V I Mil Mormons and Gentiles alike, know that they H II a were voting, not on their own judgment of what H J i 1 1 was right, but as they were instructed to vote by I I ' ' ill the Mormon church. The covert threat of the fl I f I 111 News at the close of the article is aimed at such B j HI Mormons as have been elected to the Council, H i which in plain English would read this way: "You H , ill WJ ol)0V council while in office or you need never V ' 'r 1111 again expect to hold an office in this city or ' rl' " II state." ill i II Ab to tlie nomInatlon ana" election of Chief H' IB Lynch, that was done simply to defeat a job that fl r II liad been incubated and which it was expected I W' H to t)e s enougl1 to cackle just as soon as the fl III IB neW mcers sll0llld le installed, and it was a I 111 righteous act. B hl'B ThIs clty was run by the Church through B i I , Iffi its chosen asents for forty years. The record left I! I lH l)y Ifc ls not an encnantlns one to contemplate. I f j 'tin There was hardly a public improvement, no sew- 1 ll'il! mil ers' no Pavements only the length of two blocks H, tj BB sprinkled; no fire department worth the name, a B ! 'i police made up mostly of thugs, Hot a decent V I !: 8 school house hardly one competent teacher, fre- B1 ! ' oV quent official malfeasance and defalcation in of- Bi 1 1 ' -afl flce wnIch wero always condoned, and the entire B ! "B revenue of the city gone, with nothing to liow B I 'iWmm fr t SaVQ tlie salaries of officials. That is what S ' ' J BB the News deslres to have restored, but that Is S I wkm not the plan which lias tllQ aPProval of anybody Wmm M 1H save a blgot and a slave to a creed. HjlJi 1 H In some cities, in order to ttirow off boss rule, Hi I J Bi the peopl of a11 Paities unite and elect tho of- 11 I I jBI ficei S' and such a Svernment ls its advantages. liNf!H But that is nofc what the News means- Tt means 1111 !na a ll0liy of men w wil1 do what tliey aro In" flHlli 1H structed to do by a church. This city had forty BBi'i i'1 BB years of tliat and the memory o lfc Is to fresh ill H malcQ tllG PeoP1(3 desire a return of it. BlJlNlB B I MStj 'Jill BiliilB |