Show JAMES D D S nON OF PRINCIPLES I will to the best of my ability safeguard the interest of the people in so far as I am able with the as assistance assistance assistance of the council and the heads of departments There will be equal rights extended to all and special privileges to none I will wiIl endeavor to bring about competition in all classes of public contracts and beg to assure all bid bidders bidders bidders ders that they will receive fair and courteous treatment at my hands I favor public improvements improve of all kinds that will add to the comfort and improvement of this com community community Every family in this city is justly entitled to a liberal supply of pure water Cement sidewalks should and must be extended wherever the people desire them and are willing to furnish the money to pay 4 the cost of constructing the same Sewers should and must be lie extended in all directions and connections to same enforced in order that the public health may not suffer and the periods when cont contagious diseases prevail in our fair city may be eliminated as far Car as possible I favor street paving wherever the abutters on the streets to be paved shall shaIl petition the city council to have the improvements made in so far as the city is able to pay for its share of the improvements made madeI I favor and will constantly endeavor to limit contracts in size and extent in order that the man or ormen ormen ormen men with limited capital may have the opportunity to get their share of all public publio work and on all large jobs to so divide the work that parties equipped with tools and machinery to perform part of the work may come comein comein comein in competition with those who are prepared to do all aU the labor and furnish all the material to complete the same I cordially recommend the proposition now under consideration by the school board of this city to build and equip a magnificent High school building that will be in harmony with the many grand school buildings build buildings buildings ings we now possess and be a source of delight and admiration to all friends of education at home as well as the admiration of all our visitors from abroad a and id will gladly vote for bonds to build the same sameI I condemn the methods heretofore in vogue of the party in power taking the initiative in inaugurating improvements without the knowledge and consent of property owners along the line of the proposed improve improvement improvement improvement ment and carried out with the purpose in view of furnishing favored contractors with large jobs at exorbitant exorbitant exorbitant ant prices to the great injury of the taxpayers rs of Salt lake lakeI I will extend the same courtesies to the man in overalls as I will to those of our citizens who may be better equipped with the necessaries and the luxuries of everyday life remembering always that I too have been a workingman and proud to acknowledge it itI itI itI I firmly f believe that public office is a public trust and the acts of public men are fit subjects for public criticism Public officers are the servants of the people and as such are responsible only to the people |