Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-10-19 | Page 4 | James Murdoch for Mayor of Salt Lake

JAMES MURDOCH FOR MAYOR OF SALT LAKE One time a friend asked Mr James Murdoch Re Republican publican candidate for mayor or of Salt SnIt Lake how he lie accumulated his fortune And the canny Scotchman T replied i Well in the first place I much But what there thero Is of it came because I always observed the rule of ot living within my income And that is one of the things which make him fit to be mayor of this city I The wild and reckless s manner of ot administration I which W has obtained in the past four years should be checked In the interest of the people There is no nonet nored net red need d of checking chocking Improvement at the same time But there Is need of ot holding the city to expenditures en entirely entirely rely within the limit of the revenues There Is another rule of Mr Ir life and andone andone andone one which surely sur ly should be considered in summing up his qualifications for office When he is mayor the people will know what is 18 being done with the money they spend When a dollar of the peoples cash is paid out they will know where It has gone Perfect frankness with the people perfect sin sincerity sincerity sincerity in making report to them will be bo the rule of ot the Murdoch administration It is time timo for an opening of the books The city paid twenty thousand dollars for a new system of bookkeeping book one by which the officials could make prompt report of the condition of the finances in every department And they were five live months making their last ast annual report And it will be their last too Under the Murdoch rule absolute honesty in the expenditure of the public money the tho prompt and clear accounting to the people for their cash the good business busine s method of keeping within the revenues these there will be some of the reforms that Mr Murdoch will inaugurate Salt Lake has seen reason enough to want that kind of ot a government