Show ll Wise Policy Advises Continuance of I Republican Party's Dominance in Utah I ITHE HE business man who would experiment with his big investments in along T THE J lines that could not hope to increase his profits and that threatened threatened threatened threat threat- ened actual injury to them would soon find him under the control of a guardian appointed d by hy the court at the behest of his fatally family and friends Good business s policy i ad advises es that there he be no tampering with methods that arc are producing proper propel results the tho merchant who lets well enough h alone w will Jl not rise rise to dizzy heights of finance like a skyrocket skyrocket skyrocket sky sky- rocket but he will not come down like tho the stick The same truths hold in governmental affairs when the business of the people is being properly administered when a dollars dollar's worth of value is received for every dollar expended when the people are prosperous ordinary business wisdom would suggest that they make no experiments Careful scrutiny of the arguments advanced by the two opposing parties although there really is ig but one since the Bull Con is merely n a sort of Democratic side show develops de no substantial reason why the Republican administration in Utah should bo retired As the head and front of the administration some puerile criticisms are directed against Governor Spry although none relates to the manner in which he lie has discharged the duties of his office His opponents have discussed his membership of the directorate of a bank hank or two which was our first intimation that even the chief executive of the state might not remain highly respectable and still serve sen-c as ns one of the governing hoards boars of ofa a financial institution This argument is is merel merely interesting as e exhibiting exhibit exhibit- h biting bit bit- ing the sac de in which the tho opposing parties find themselves It is not charged however that the affairs of the people of Utah have e not been discharged cd faithfully efficiently and with economy there i is no DO accusation tion that the policies enforced by the Governor Go and the time other state officers were improper or that they could have bave been improved no fin finger er of criticism has pointed at a single weak place in the stale state administration There has been a n dearth of fact or of argument went ment that was convincing cOD and one may safely assume that there is nothing to expose or the exposures would have been made madl For these reasons the time people of Utah should and without doubt will let well enough alone There is nothing to be gained by hy a change Experiments are dangerous at best and they are arc extremely foolish when there is no end to be sen served eel 1 1 n n J n. n J. J II K U. MORRIS seems to fancy himself in the Mr Morris II M MH roll of a n horrible example With With- tears teals of IV Weeping a at t disappointment in his eyes and the iron of baffled ambition in iu his soul he lie is traveling tra to Tomb of Hrs His and fro throughout Utah g to the appealing s sympathy sym m Ambition pathy oC of th the electors exhibiting upon his classical shoulders the lacerations of the political yoke oke Like the time old fm old fashioned temperance exhorter who prefaced his word pictures of time the evils il of or the demon rum lum with his own experiences as a n dipsomaniac before he reformed the Bull HuH Con candidate candidate candi candi- date for Governor confesses with visible pride that he lie is a victim of machine politics His voice quivers rs with unutterable woe and political cal thirst is limned in his He is indeed a pathetic figure We Ve have ha no doubt that Mr Morris is using using to advance his fortunes for for- fortunes tunes the only argument available No Xo reason for the retirement of Governor Spry in the tile Morris favor can be found except that Morris Monis has bas tried so long and unavailingly ly to capture some sort of an office that he can appeal upon this basis to that charity that thai lurks in the heart hear t of every cry human being It is not likely however er to be c effective N No 0 aspirant ever cried himself into public office Mark Anton Antony exhibited the body of Caesar in the time forum and pointed to his wounds founds the ac act t drove the thc conspirators into but it should be remembered that ts Antony was exhibiting Caesars Caesar's injuries not his own If Mr Morris Moms s will exhibit Parley Christensen's mantle mantIc and the place which ran Cassius's Cassius s 's dagger through or other some scarred battle-scarred victim it will be much mach more convincing ow a Ir a a s AMES H. H MOYLE was much more effective e in When Is s a J the of two campaign years ago as a read ready y let letter ter writer than he is Democrat likely to be as a Not spellbinder er in this contest In Iu a n speech at Elsinore Elsi- Elsi a Wore nore Utah a spot sufficiently removed from the Democrat capital as to warrant the apparent Moyle Movie belief that his tariff record is unknown there he be denounced denounced denounced de de- the high tariff wall reared by t the Republican party He is too ready to assume assume that the people have short memories but he reckons without reason The public will readily recall his trip to Washington ashington some mouths months ago to labor with his Democratic brethren in the Lower House not to ruin the wool industry by reducing the tariff Unable to reach his party members by an mi appeal to the reason which they lacked or by submitting sub suh- submitting facts which their inexperience unfitted them to understand he lie appealed to the Utah senators Republicans to lo accomplish with their fellow Republicans in the Senate what he was unable to do o in tho the House And when he lie returned to 10 Utah Mr rr Moyle paid a high tribute t to Senators Smoot and Sutherland and Congressman Howell How for the efforts they were making to protect this great Utah industry 1 In the face of this it requires considerable self-assurance self on omi the part of Mr Boyle Moyle to denounce the system in which he believes when n wool ool is s threatened threatened threat threat- ened and to condemn the party which came to his rescue when his own would not However consistency and Democracy are arc antipodal terms 1 loW PrA Ol n mislaid genius at Democratic county I SOME S Democracy headquarters has prepared and is Raises Races a ing isS a statement showing the extent to which Gh Ghost ost It La t the aggregate of taxes has advanced ad in Salt SnIt Lake county county since that flint fY TT m n m nv II Cannot Lay II years ago go w when en the Democrats rt O were i in control tro jt It ought to tu be a n powerful argument among those who have forgotten the impassable condition of time the county count roads under Democratic rule the utterly disgraceful condition con eon of count county buildings and the he very ery few persons who lived lind in Salt Lake county at that time The fact that there arc several se times as ns many lUany residents of Salt Lake county now as compared to that period I that the roads are excellent that strong substantial buildings have been heen erected and that complete efficiency is the time rule in every depart ment of the county service will not be bc forgotten by the time taxpayers when they consider this thus statement The effort of our Democratic friends to furnish some some excuse for the existence of their party locally was properly conceived but badly executed The people of this county have hn no desire to return to tho the of the time old days the down broken buildings the general inefficiency inefficiency that characterized the county administration and the general apology they were forced to offer chance visitors The taxes in the county could be lower as ns The Republican Herald has frequently pointed out but most taxpayers would choose even an increase Im in r preference to a return to thos I s Democratic times |