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Show Tit tN Political Aim truth; The public is pretty well nauseated doing effective work on his behalf.. The with the stuff dished up to it every Fourth precinct was rather neglected morning by the daily papers under the The general cognomen of politics. or or whatever flute, Democratic organ, on the addiurnal a attack makes It is, a forward jumble of ministration, puts waste and to extravagance prove figures of the public funds. Not one in a hundred reads them, and the probability is that one, when he gets through with them, knows less about the true status of affairs than before he commenced. Then the Republican exponent comes back. with an answer, and counter figures as equally incomprehensible and bewildering as the other. The objectcon-of both seems to be to mistify and Infuse; anyway, whether that is the tent or not, that is what they succeed admirably in doing. The people take little stock in the statements put forth neither by either. The administration is one nor so black as it is painted by the so Immaculate as represented by the other. People take little stock in the truck they are expected to read and inwardly digest. by its representatives in the present Council, especially in the matter of irrigation water. The flumes and streets were not given much attention either. Hutchinson is practical and will see that his end of the Fourth gets its due. pro-bicycl- ist A great howl was raised against the police for the treatment of the unfortu- nate man Pettengill, who was picked up in the street a victim of alcoholism and thrust into the bughouse, where he died a few hours afterward. The police have faults in plenty, but they ought to have justice. The evidence all went to show that Pettengill was drunk, really and truly drunk, and that he had been in that condition in a more or less advanced degree for a week or two. The city does not keep a duly licensed physician in attendance to treat drunks. Jailer Sol Kimball is, however, quite experienced in that line and can diagnose a case of that kind with precision and correctness, and the' facts in this instance corroborate Sols diagnosis. It is a pitiful case, but just how the police are to blame for the outcome is not clear. The miserable, filthy hole called the "bughouse, Into which drunks are cast, is a double disgrace to the community, but the police are not to blame for that. They have nowhere else to Put the "drunks. must either so there or be turned They loose. The sooner the City Council gets the new jail built the better. The prospects of W. R. Hutchinson being elected to the City Council from the Fourth precinct are very bright. Mr. Hutchinson has many friends who are painstaking official and made improvements in the manner of conducting his department. The assets of the municipality were never compiled until he did so. The former Auditor complained that he could not make up a proper financial statement because no valuation of either the real or personal property had been made. Auditor Reiser went to work and had that done, and at the end of last year he presented the first statement showing the assets and liabilities of the municipality. The assets amounted to $6,489,358.17 and the liabilities to $3,033,022.24. His annual report for last year also, for the first time showed the exact condition of the various funds. The excellent system of attaching to each warrant Issued a certification that the city was within its legal debt limit, thus protecting both the municipality and the party who received the warrant was introduced by him. Reiser is a good safe man to tie The Mormon and Gentile question is cropping up in the First precinct, and there are rumors of combinations to elect three Mormons, regardless of their other politicar affiliations, and, hand, to elect the Gentiles on either ticket. This is bad, and probably each to. element is equally to blame for it. It will be Interesting to study the vote on-th- after the e election. . R. B. Whlttemore made a consistent record in the City Council He was a good party man and stood with the Republicans on most questions. He favored economy and opposed the increase in the tax levy, believing that the increase in the assessed valuation would for the needs of the muWhat was W. E. D. Barnett closeted be sufficient He favored street paving and nicipality. with Dennis Eichnor for last Saturday? other necessary improvements. The other Democratic fellow has told what he was doing in close consultation with the Republican chairman. When W. C. Spence was nominated for the City Council two years ago he came within 7 votes of being elected. The saloons were generally tightly is hardly a doubt but this time dosed last Sunday, but the restaurants There he will be elected by a good, safe madid a thriving business in serving wine, jority. He is a good, capable business meals on the man and would ably represent the west spirits and beer with stores also en- end of the Fourth precinct, which has Lords day. The drug had a grievance in not having had a line. in a trade that profitable joyed representative in the present Council. John N. Sharp, Jr., Republican candidate for the City Council from the Fourth, is making his campaign as a and on his family tree. These, he thinks, will pull him through. The sidewalks are none too good for On the bicyclists in his estimation. other hand, Hartenstein, one of the Democratic nominees from the same precinct, is squarely against wheelmen occupying the walks. He was the father of the ordinance passed by the City Council prohibiting wheels from being ridden on the sidewalks, and in the face of great opposition and dire threats of the wheelmen, he stuck to the position and carried his point, and deserves credit for it. There are more pedestrians than wheelmen in the Fourth, and if the battle is to be fought on those lines Hartenstein will likely have the long end. 9 When asked on what the Democrats based their hopes of electing Mr. Leary to the Mayoralty, a prominent member of the party declared that the church was with them and that was all they needed. A great kick is being made by the Democrats on the cost of street sprinkling this year. It must be remembered, however, that sprinkling was begun over a mouth earlier this summer and is being continued longer than last year. That fact alone fully accounts for the slight addition to the cost, not to say a word about the greater area sprinkled this year than last. When the present administration went into power it had numerous claims for damages arising from defective flumes to settle and damages caused by flooding and accidents to. pay. The flumes have been repaired as far as the means would afford, and not a claim of that kind has arisen for two years. The members of the bar association did right in putting up an independent ticket for the two city judgeships. None -- of the four young men named by the conventions are capable of properly discharging the duties of the office. The great mistake the lawyers made was in not taking action before the conventions made the nominations. If they had indicated a dozen men in each party any of whom would have been satisfactory to the bar, in all probability their recommendations would have received consideration, and the four candidates who received the nominations would have been spared the humiliation which they really dont deserve, for it is not their fault that they are young and Inexperienced. The candidates on the bar ticket, W. T. Gunter and T. D. Lewis, are both bright lawyers, and would fill the positions to which they have been nominated with credit to themselves and for the benefit of the community. They ought to receive the support of the voters. - That humbug and nuisance, the political social party, is in full swing. Have the ethics of the legal profession fallen so that it is permissible for By the withdrawal of Ira H. Lewis candidates for the high offices of from the Democratic Councllmanic Judges to go round spouting at poticket in the Fifth precinct the party is litical gatherings? That alone ought left with only two candidates from to be sufficient reason for the defeat of that precinct. They might as well re- any candidate who does it. tire also and make it unanimous for Robertson, Davis and Daveler. Morris Sommer says he has the indorsement of Judge Ogden Hiles and Judge W. H. Dickson. The wheelmen are making considerable of a furore in their own estimation, but it wont amount to much. They seem to think they have preempted the Morris Sommer says that he is thorsidewalks and the streets as well. They want bicycle paths built, beautifully oughly qualified for the position of Judge of the City court. That settles it. leveled, paved with cinders and sprinkled with care. The entire revenues of ' the city for the whole year wouldnt pay for the work they want done right away. They prate about the taxes they pay, but as a matter of fact Mayor Thompson alone pays more taxes than half the wheelmen combined. If bicycle paths are built it will be the citizens who dont ride wheels that will have to pay the bill. Their proposition for the city to levy a tax of 50 cents per wheel per annum and apply the revenue to the construction of paths is nothing but trifling. It would cost more to collect the tax than it would yield, and even if it could be collected without expense the sum realized wouldn't defray the cost of building the paths in a hundred years. The administration has promised to build bicycle paths as rapidly as the financial condition of the city will permit, and that is all that can be reasonably asked. If Mayoralty Candidate Leary and the candidates for the City Council pledge themselves to build bicycle paths at once they, will simply be making a promise which it is Impossible for them to perform. If the promise to enact an ordinance permitting wheels to be ridden on the sidewalks the community who have some refor the safety of themselves, their gard wives and children, will snow them under so deep that it will be August of E. A. Hartenstein, member of the next year before they will be thawed present City Council, is a candidate for out. on the Democratic ticket. He has represented the Fourth precinct It is now in order for the saloonmen with credit to himself and to the adand the gamblers to get up a set of vantage of his constituents. His record questions for the candidates to answer. in the Council is noteworthy from the The denizens of Commercial street stand that he took against bicyclists life of a riding on the sidewalks in the summer might also follow a suit. The candidate is not happy one. If we months, and he was the author of the were a candidate we would feel very ordinance prohibiting wheelmen from much inclined to throw up the sponge indiscriminately using the walks. On that account he is meeting with oppoaltogether. sition from the wheelmen, who seem to . have deserted their political parties and A stranger reading the papers and made wheels the issue of the campaign. Mr. says he has no reseeing the questions which are being gretsHartenstein course for he pursued, and if the propounded to the candidates would he is to be defeated on that account suppose that Salt Lake was the most he Will go down with flying colors. He says he believes that wheelmen have wicked and on the moral rights, and he favors the construction standpoint, place, from a of bicycle paths as fast as the financial the whereas of exactly the face earth, reverse Is the case. Selling liquor to condition of the city will permit it, but he also thinks the 50,000 people of the minors, allowing children to gamble to and tobacco city who dont use wheels have rights cigarettes and selling minors is practically unknown in this too, and that the sidewalks were made here for pedestrians and not for vehicles. city, and there is less drunkenness size in He opposes the demand of the wheelits of In than probably any city the United States. Under the adminis- men that the irrigation ditches be retration of Mayor Thompson the city moved eight feet from the sidewalks in has been run in a decent and orderly order to make a path for the cyclists, but thinks the cyclists should have a manner. - non-wheelridi- ng on The city has a big overdraft, but it carries no interest. The bicycle people say they are going to make their influence felt at the polls. Those in the Fifth precinct have singled out Councilman Robertson as the special object of their enmity, and predict that the result will be disastrous to Rob doesnt Robs hopes for seem to be worrying much about it. He still says the wheelmen should keep off the sidewalks. The safety of pedestrians, especially women and children, he says, demands it. Thats where he stands on that matter, and he gives it out cold so that there may be no misre-electi- on. understanding about it. The Democrats are making a special fight on Auditor Reiser, and a great many things have been published about his conduct of the office which are not true. Reiser has been a conscientious,' utterly-gone-to-the-do-gs |