Show CONCERNING 3IK JOUV A BOYLE From a Correspondent Fairness should be the principal ingredient ingredi-ent in political contests I is sure that in party contests conflicts and combats of a hitherandthither character char-acter there is a certain amount of animosity ani-mosity in the heat1 development of which things and quer j j soring up the aiming of which are anyth g but desirable to either party in the conflict It is true and known that Weber county campaign is the contested battleground of the August It is true too that the Liberal party have the best reasons for hopes of success because be-cause IThey got there in February and Ogden citya short month and a long town II The voting strength of the Liberals is 20 cent in nearly per the county outside of the city majority if kept within legal bounds of seventy to thirty For tho sake of argument it might be admitted that the Liberals have a fair lighting force Ill Tho Liberals have which they should not to a degree have the bulge on the Mormons by an overdue excess of the election machinery IV The Liberals have the rag tag bobtail bob-tail harumscarum and devilmaycare cm lower end of the election Respectable men are too often outdone by the multitudinous multitu-dinous yaps But politics no more the Peoples party short as their comings may be and highs their faults appear have not to resort re-sort to wholesale lyinfr as has been taken as a refuge of vindictive and vituperative self protection by some illadvised advisor ad-visor of the misguided city council of Og den when that body at Friday nights session inaugurated or caused to be started au evidently partisan principle an action jnlaw against Tohn A Boyle u late member of the city council elected by the Peoples party Why Because he when such a member of the municipal arcopagus happened to sanction with his vote the sale of about nine acres of municipal real estate at the then most reasonable figure of 220 per acre But lo and behold I it happened to turn out that Mr Binford was not quite ready at the time the final settlement on the purchase of said land was to be made A s syndicate t simplify the matter was organized and Mr Boyle then chairman of the finance committee took a hand in it as any private citizen might there being no more chances or dangers of public intercession inter-cession Messrs Sprunt and Chapin real estate men also had a finger in the pie And that was all right enough Still Mr Boyle having an inkling that some kick was likely t be coming voluntarily and spontaneously offered to pay 0 as his share of the net profits realized rea-lized on the resale of the piece property in which he had only taken a secondary ex post facto interest Mr Boyle if he had a right to partake in the advantages of the boom did not only not make a mistake by taking advantage of the open opportunities of the public market but he as a gentleman expressed his well determined willingness to oven wipe the slightest shade of away slghtest a suspicion sus-picion on his public career Mr Binford is thoroughly aware and no less satisfied of Mr Boyles course in this I matter James N Kimball Esq is likewise like-wise confident that Mr Boyles conduct I will be vindicated in the courts To say I the least it is 1 precarious piece of cam < paigndodging Mr Boyle can hold his own in and out of court as far a his public I official acts are concerned H H I |