| Show MURDOCH HElPED BY KEARNS ABUSE Tribunes Attack of Republican Candidates Record Is Mak Making Making Making ing Him Friends Mr Murdoch by his hs course In the council the past two years has shown what he ho would do as mayor In this city says ays the tho Kearns organ in assail assailing ing jn the man marL who has done more than any other to block the systematic graft grafting graftIng ing lug on the part of the present city ad administration administration ministration In calling attention to this statement a former American party worker remarked yesterday that the Tribune had in those thole few tew words stated the reason why he and hundreds of for former former former mer members of the American Ame party were going to vote for James Tames D Mur Murdoch Murdoch Murdoch doch this year The attacks on record as councilman are ore making votes votee for him every day among the progressive lve busi business business ness nells men of Salt Bait Lake Lalta who are realizing realizIng realizIng ing more than ever over that If it Salt Lake continues to grow and public Improve Improvements improvements Improvements ments keep pace with the business growth of the city the taxes must be bo spent In a businesslike lIke manner manners said this man who was prominent among the Kearns workers in the last two campaigns campaigne I 1 dont hesitate he to say that I am in favor of what the American party pre pro pretends pretends tends to stand for but because I 1 was I one of the moat mot ardent supporters of the proposition to build bulk an n intercepting sewer do you suppose e I 1 have to be in favor of paying Pat Moran for patching that wooden stave pipe which was to cost coet only in the first place Paying for Patches Then rhen there was the Cottonwood con conduit conduit duit dint I was ya Influential in a n small way In stirring up sentiment in favor of this addition ad to the water supply and fa favor a avord vor vord d the building of the t e conduit When It came to paying Moran thousands of dollars extra for patching up tho the defoe defective defective tive tivo pipe he ha was trying to foist on the city U it It was another matter Talk about Mur voting no Ill bet a hat Jim would have voted no on that proposition proposition proposition tion so you ou could have heard him up to Second South street although he would have favored the conduit from tram the start Just because be ause a man is in favor of I public improvements the present gang gangIn I In power seem to think he must favor graft methods In doing that work continued the business man manOld Old Did you ever hear he r of a business busIn man who systematically bunched all his con contracts contracts tracts so that only one man could possibly possibly bly bid on them when by dividing them up a bit he might get competitive bids from a dozen men on each part This is 18 the position the American party vart has taken on all public work and because Murdoch promises to procure real competition In public work he is dubbed a mossback and a reaction reactionary ary by b the tho gang now in control If Salt Lake would put a few more men like Murdoch at the head hd of its departments Salt Lake would have twice as many Improvements for the same money |
