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Show 'aaCKCCecsBSQBahdCi v.nvw. TRUTH. 8 TRUTH Issued Weekly II and by PUBU5HlNa TRUTH con P ANY. Central Block. West Second South Street, Salt Lake City. JOHN W. HUGHES, Editor and Manager. 12 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, OCT. 26, 1901. TERRS OP SUBSCRIPTION. ONE YEAR (In ad vance) 2.00 1.00 75 : SIX nONTHS THREE MONTHS Postmasters sending suliscrlptlons to Truth may retain 25 per cent of subscription price as commission. deslrel beyond the date If the paper is not subscribed f r the publication- should be notified by letter two weeks or more before the term expires. - DISCONTINUANCES. Remember that the publisher must be notified subscriber wishes his by letter whenalla arrears must be paid in paper stopped; rail, i jz" . their paper Requests of subscribers to have secure attenmailed to a new address, to tion, must mention former as well as pres, ent address. Address all communications to Truth Pub I.XSHING Company, Balt Lake City, Utah THE SUPPORTERS of James C. Leary for the Mayoralty professed to be very angry at the attitude Truth took In supporting Mayor Thompson for They declared that Truth re-electi- on. put Itself forward as a non-partis- an paper, and therefore had no right to ( i 4 . take side3 In the campaign, especially when the side espoused by Truth was not theirs. Now, as a matter of fact, Truth never at any time held Itself out It clearly as a paper. stated that it was an Independent paper, and that after the nominations it would select the men which in its judgment were the best qualified for the position to which they aspired, and would support them. That is just exactly what it has done and is doing. Now, will any honest Democrat, and there are many such, candidly say after considering the two Mayoralty candidates from every point of view that Mr. Leary is better fitted for the office of Mayor of Salt Lake than Ezra Thompson? Tnith thinks not. Mayor Thompson has given the city a good administration. He has been tried and not found wanting. Is he not to be preferred to a comparative stranger? Is Salt Lake so badly off for material for a Mayor that it has to send to Denver for a man? Mr. Leary, as Truth has said before, Is a good fellow, a genial, generous fellow, with many good qualities, but that Is not sufficient to entitle him to sit in the Mayoralty chair. The Mayor of Salt Lake should be a man who has substantial interest in the welfare and progress of the city. Mr. Thompson, personally, is at least as good a man as Mr. Leary and in addition he is a g resident of Utah, his interests are in the State and very largely in Salt Lake. He pays taxes here amounting to $500 a month, $6000 a year. He has shown that he is capable, upright and honest, and all things considered Truth begs to differ in opinion from W. E. D. Barnett, Adam Paul, O. P. Pratt and the rest of- the disinterested patriots non-partis- an i ' i !? ' I 5 :i .i !4 n !U ; i ? . t f :n life-lon- - THE SHAME OF IT! who are supporting Mr. Learys candiTHE DAILY PAPERS 8 re having a dacy. Truth thinks the voters will do great time vieing with each other in presenting to the public the financial affairs of the late President Snow. so also. ONE OF THE most efficiently man' aged departments of the public service is the county of Salt Lake. The present Board of County Commissioners is the best, probably, the county ever had, certainly the best within the past dozen years. Chairman Anderson is its leading spirit. He is a thorough business man and, with the other members, Harker and Horne, contrives to obtain efficient services with due regard for economy. Mr. Anderson is a worker and is very familiar with the operation of every department of the county government. The board inherited a legacy of debt from its predecessors of some years ago and, as a consequence, has had to provide for the payment of nearly $40,000 of the famous furniture warrants and other liabilities Incurred in 1895 and 1896. The board succeeded in borrowing money from the Deseret National bank at 4 per cent Interest, and with a continuance of the rigid economy which has characterized its administration expects to pay off half the indebtedness by the end of the year. It would not hurt if the city government would pattern after those who have charge of the countys affairs. THE PRESENT campaign is remarkable for the lack of interest which Is being taken in it by the general public, and there may be some surprises after the votes are counted. Neither party is working very strenuously, the general Impression among the Republicans being that they will have a walk-ove- r, while the Democrats are disheartened and dont really expect to elect any of their ticket but a few members of the City Council. There is danger to the Republicans in their over-confiden- ce. THE SUGGESTION of special medical examination in cases of suspected diphtheria is a good one and should be put into operation without delay. Every assistance should be given the Health Commissioner and his assistants to cope with that dreaded disease. A true diagnosis and right treatment in the early stages of the malady is very important, not only for the patient, but for the prevention of the spread of the infection to others. THE INDEPENDENT judicial ticket put up by the Bar association should be elected. W. T. Gunter and T. D. Lewis are both suitable men, possessing the necessary qualifications, legal and otherwise, for filling the positions of city judges. is being virtually for whipping his enemy off tiie earth and losing but one man, and a single ship in doing so. Cervera, tlie conquered, goes back to barbarous Spain and lives in peace; Schley, the conqueror, comes home and immediately finds himself tortured by an exami-tio- n that can result In no good to any one, and that is simply a disgrace to the Nation. Who on earth cares whe;.,-e- r he made a loop, a double-heade- r, a flying switch, or hoisted the Spaniards out of the water with an invention of he is keeping-- secret? his It matters not a" little bit. Had he, by bad seamanship and a lack of intelligence, generally given Spain any advantage, then It would have been proper to call him down. So far, as the evidence at present discloses, this more than prince of fighters, Schley, did not manage his boats in the manner that a at the capital say lot of they believe he should have done. Its a pity that the entire gang of hounds who are barking and yelping at Schley were not on the Spanish ships at the time they came out of the harbor. America would have been a decided gainer. It might be In order to suggest that just as soon as they get through with Schley, to have up Dewey on the charge of destroying public property by cutting the cable at Manila. As a Kangaroo court the one now on In Brooklyn discounts that of the Midway. Schley SALE OF THE TRIBUNE. The sale of the Salt Lake Tribune caused a great amount of interest, not only in newspaper circles, but among the general public. The almost uni- versal expression was regret that the great paper had passed out of the hands of its founders, who have been closely Identified with it for nearly a . and quarter of a century. atSincere retirethe' Was felt sorrow general ment of Judge C. C. Goodwin, whose brilliant pen seemed to the people of Utah and Western States to be an essential part of the great paper, and Judge Goodwin is loved and honored for his personal goodness and the lovelyness of his character, as much as he is esteemed as a writer. P. H. Lannan and the Tribune were almost synonomous terms from San Francisco to New York. He was a fighter and possessed in a high degree the qualifications of staying with both his friends and his enemies. He never went back on a friend, and his enemies found to their cost that he pursued them with equal faithfulness until the battle was over. He is a man of rare sagacity and business ability, and surrounded for years with the most unfavorable conditions, made the Tribune one of the greatest powers in the Intermountain country. Perry S. Heath, whose name now stands at the head of the paper as publisher and manager, is a man with a national reputation. He is a newspaper man from the ground up and with wide experience. Under him there is no' room to doubt that the prosperity and power of the Tribune will grow, but without any desire to he presumptious, Truth would say to Mr. Heath what he probably knows already, that we are a peculiar people in Utah and the kind of journalism which succeeds in New York, Chicago St. Louis and other Eastern cities will not succeed here. Much speculation has been indulged in as to what the purchase of the Tribune by Mr. Heath and his associates means. Truth does not vouch for the correctness of what people say regarding it, and will therefore only repeat it without standing for it. Nine people out of ten who discuss the matter say the Tribune was bought for Senator Kearns and some friends of his in Utah, and that Senator Kearns controls it. They also say that Senator Kearns controls the Herald, and that the newspaper business will henceforth be a monopoly in Salt Lake. The new owners of the Tribune and Herald control the Associated Press franchise, both morning and afternoon services, and no new paper can obtain the Associated Press news service without their consent. Any new paper would, therefore, have to depend for its telegraphic news upon some of the smaller and less efficient news gathering agencies. It is also said the Tribune is about to start an evening paper, to compete with the Deseret News, which has, and is entitled to continue to receive the Associated Press reports. What will happen, with a Republican and a Democratic paper being run in the same town by the same owners? is asked. One will be the kite and the other the tail, it is said. The Tribune is, and for years has been a The Herald has paying concern. not, until recently. The more ultra Gentiles say the Mormon church is in the saddle, that neither paper. In view of the relations which are said to exist between ths church and the reported owners of the sheets will oppose the church, whatever it may do. A return to old conditions is predicted. Some of the Mormons are said to be rejoicing on that account, and others are not. It is also said that both papers will be used in the interest of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake and of the Burlington railroads, and that the Harriman syndicate is shut out, so far as newspaper - - THE MOVEMENT of the members of the medical fraternity for the estabrepresentation goes. lishment of a medical department in The correctness or otherwise of any or all of those surmislngs will be the State university is a worthy one demonstrated in the course of a few and should be supported. It must look queer to the average foreigner when he notes that Admini months. court-m:;,--tial- ed i:-.- own,-whic- h t a land-lubbe- rs IT IS AN OPEN SECRET. That some of the men who are making considerable of a howl about the candidates for City Judges have never displayed in any court in this section at least as much ability as have either of the our men named, and we will not forget the master of "Toughy. But that is no credit to the candidates who have been named. It merely goes to show, I take It, that only where there is a tidal wave do the big fish and the little fellows agree for awhile. That the police department, or at least several of the members, are not talking through- - their helmets when they announce open and undying hatred for Morris Sommer, and that they will show this at the poles by their votes and the votes of their friends a well as ' "2l ivT 'I i ..J f -- . their own. The Police department is not in politics, 'av course not, as Dooley wrould say, but there is not a man on the force will cast a vote for Sommer. I do not care whether he be a Republican or a Democrat, said a policeman. Why, the very night of his nomination, being cocksure of his election then, as he expressed it, he made overtures to Mat Thomas, the Republican candidate. I am told, looking to the securing of the Police court end of the combination, because he had a desire to get even with some of us. Sommer opened his vocal batteries a little too soon." That the short campaign will be a good thing to emulate. looked upon as That eacn move made by Senator Kearns gives those who do not know him personally a new insight into the vigorous character of the man, and that, while he may not be long on oratory, he seems to have a pole capable of reaching every persimmon he goes for. Intending purchasers of pianos should not miss the piano sale at Daynes Music companys, 74 South Main street. They will find great barinstruments on gains in high-claterms to suit. The stock is very extensive and comprises the best makes of pianos In the world. ss fl -- v o i. I r.-- vi bl |