Show I F PARTISAN POLITICS What It Has Done and Is Doing in Salt Lake City i Partisan polities in any local is worse than Lake has had its years ago Salt Lake City 21 the best mayor we ever Jib person of R. P. the ball rolling by vast city Temple street was' completed to the of the and it was lie most difficult piece of paving ver attempted in this started the new water that would our city with an abundance of water for Jews to and when he re office he left more jEi enough money to complete should have been t in But there arose in political sky a dark and lorous of hatred and that cloud was Tom and his so called Partisan politics raged to its H was in the par's chair and should havo result is known only too Partisan politics put a Ip-haling parly in al- two-thirds of the people P city did not desire Two ago the so-called American worked on party line of Democratic and Republican and won against the wishes of the One Year One year ago party lines were again drawn but the people discarded party and voted for individuals and not The was that the Utah the were snowed This year a fusion should have been made on all lint party personal abuse crept parties were accused of selling out and counter charges were all to the delight of Utah's common The Democrats and Citizens made a blunder when some of their over-zealous leaders' rushed to the front and offered the nomination to a stockade promoter and a trafficker in female In offering the nominal ion to Mayor both the Citizens and the Democratic parties partially endorsed the Partisan polities in municipal affairs is a curse to any town or Got the One day in a good-natured dog was gnawing a another good-natured dog came along and wanted that the result was a and while the two big fighting a dogs were cur came along scurvy and ran off with the That station m bait has been the last two during Lake City Will the elections for get the bone stockade promoter this Just as long as political stir up partisan papers doubt and dishonesty among friends and just so long shall we have stockade promoters for public It is freely admitted that the greatest curse in this city is the stockade-promoting Whenever public officers raise our run our city into and make exorbitant special assessments for political graft whenever the party in power will build an illegal stockade in which lo herd scarlet women and under the guise of- protecting to sell their to the highest in order to fill their own when the party fn power will keep in office a policeman who has been known to associate and connive with thieves and when the paper of the parly in power as did the Salt Lake that derelicts and self-seeking politicians and the riffraff might get control in the convention it and when delegates publicly in an open that the women and children of Salt Lake would be protected if Joe was elected for mayor against Mayor Bransford I that when such conditions and when such a disgraceful party is in power as the party is any newspaper that will not protect the the children and the homes in Salt Lake City against should not be such a gang I have before me the third issue of the Sunday the new On the front Democratic names of the pae it gives and with one are men that if elected will make good but nearly all of the remainder of the political of the paper is devoted to casting slurs and reproach upon the Like the Salt Lake it rings in Senator t se veral t i j us t as though he were running for office It stated that James the Republican candidate for and an excellent was trying to ride two it said nil it could against the hut not ono word to protect our and children and our against the gang now fn We knew that the Salt Lake Herald favored the party because Tom Kearns controlled its and Judge Powers' and Joe were his we also knew that there arc a few lending Democrats of them being who would rather sec the ticket win the The Sunday Times appears to be an exponent of that very party The Democratic with all of its lofty principles and sound will always play a losing game when it allows such insurgents as Judge Parker and a few others here in Salt Lake City to with true Democratic The reading matter in the Salt Lake Tribune and the Sunday Times on the present political situation in this city is they say nothing against the or the Democratic but turn all their guns on the They forget to state that the Joseph C. is one of the best sheriffs that Salt Lake county ever they forget to state that if it had not been for Sharp's vigorous prosecution of the stockade and other crime-breeders and crime Salt Lake today would be as corrupt as Minneapolis was in the days of Mayor Such is partisan politics in- municipal |