Show WHAT IS A REACTIONARY Regularly every year our friends of o the American get a new now name namo and apply It to opposition opposition opposition tion Last year they called caned everybody a ft mossback if he diet not agree with them thein This year lear they the charge hargO that every everyone one opposed to tho Bransford policies Is a reactionary It Is a word Let us sec sea what It means Webster Reactionary In politics one anxious to undo reform or to tor return turn to an outgrown condition of things They angrily apply the tho term to Mr Murdoch Re Republican Republican Republican publican candidate for mayor Especially since sinco Mr speech in the theatre Saturday evening the American party bosses bos have luwe dwelt with great fondness on the brick which they th call reactionary and they heave It at him But Mr Ir Murdoch Is not a reactionary The Tho defini deini definition definition tion does not fit him because In the first place there It Is f no reform In this city or in this county or In this state to which he ho Is opposed not one which he would undo And wo we may add that there is no real reform for which the tho American party can claim clam the credit So they have no cause to attack him on that score And he does not want to go back to an outgrown condition of ot things Specifically Mr Murdoch does not want to go back to the day of no street paving of ot no sidewalks of ot no sewers The charge will wUl not be believed by any an one who knows him and every one In Salt Lake does There Is no more honestly and rea reasonably reasonably reasonably progressive pro man In Salt Lake than Is James Jamel Murdoch But there may be framed another definition for tor or the word reactionary which we commend to our friends the bosses of at the American party part It Is this Reactionary One who Is careful of other peoples money entrusted to him one who counts the cost before he orders work to begin one who believes in inthe Inthe Inthe the rule of justice and honesty and an right A s For Mr Murdoch Is that kind of a reactionary and no other lIe He voted against the tho paving of certain streets because be use there was a clause In the contract to the effect offe t that the city part past of the payment was not to be made until after January uary first 1910 That was an attempt to anticipate the revenues of a fu future future future ture year If the council had a right to reach one year ear ahead and mortgage the Income the council had hada a right to go two years or three years or ten years Into the future and pledge the income of ot that future to the expenditures of at the present And the council had no such right because the law specifically declares that the expenditures eXP of no year shall shan exceed the revenues of that year And the council violated that law over the t e protest and the negative vote of ot James Murdoch Mr Murdoch voted against Mayor ac action action tion In dismissing John Burbidge from the police force foree because It clearly was not for the good of ot the sen st service ice Burbidge had been on the force for twenty years He had risen to the rank of a captain He was a faithful and efficient officer an honest and a reputable man manas aa he is to this day The one on objection Ion tion to him was that he was wasand and is isa a Mormon And the American part s foundation principle Is meas mens measureless ireless and unending enmity to all Mormons Mr Murdoch voted against the dismissal of Tom Taro Pitt chief of o pollee police Pitt had openly rebelled at atIa Mayor Ia or commands to drive the scarlet women down into the stockade and for that he was ousted from office by b the mayor But It was over the protest pretest and against the vote of James Murdoch He voted against t the appropriation of money for forthe forthe forthe the commercial travelers celebration and if he had nut ot he would have done violence to his oath of at office The law plainly forbids the appropriating of money m money ney from the public treasury to any uses other than public uses Assisting a society s to make a big celebration no ro matter what that society may be is a violation f law And It cannot rightfully be done Now the limit of or f the charge against Mr 11 Mur Murdoch Murdoch Murdoch doch Is He would not violate his oath and disobey the law Any An gentleman an who wants to oppose him himIn himm In m that platform Is at perfect liberty to do so It is the extent df of f his reactionary position When the man Is mayor maor he will uphold and obey ob y the law lawHe lIe He will not disregard the statutes of at the state He Hew will w not stamp upon his oath of at office He lie will not aid the grafters by any act ot of dishonesty and he will not close his eyes to their deviltry That may be depended on onOn onOn onOn On the other hand he has spoken plainly his sen sea sentiments sentiments touching the matter of public improvement He will favor and assist more paving more sidewalks more water service more sewers and every other public work proposed Just as fat fast and just as far tar tartS faris is tS 8 the people want it and so long as the city has money mone with which to meet Its part of or the expenditure expenditure expenditure If It you Ou people want than more that you ou want a mayor who will not obey obay oba the law a mayor who will ignore his solemn oath of oC office a mayor md or whose pledged word to the people is not kept kopL And you QU want In that case a mayor maor who knows no superior sup excepting that little band of discredited men the bosses of ot the American party |