| Show SAVE TilE CITY The election of the Democratic ticket next Monday will mean a great deal to this city The names on that ticket are of practical prac-tical business men who are imbued with tho spirit of enterprise and progress The i I gentlemen do not stand merely for a party principle and their election will not mean simply a Democratic triumph to be referred refer-red to hereafter as nn interesting political battle in which the political organization named defeated its opponents The nominees nom-inees are representative citizens who are not only Democrats in politics but arc men of intelligence interested in the welfare of Salt Lake which is their home and tho place where their possessions are to be found They are today all working as private citizens for the btst good of tho city and as officials they will labor harder and do more in the samo direction as their powers and opportunities will be enlarged and increased Among the things which a Democratic victory on Monday will mean Is the immediate im-mediate establishment of public and private confidence in Salt Lake The administration ad-ministration of tho past two years has been such us to destroy confidence in the city Away from hero the towns reputation reputa-tion is deplorable in the extreme Life and property are regarded as unsafe Salt Lake being looked upon and talked about as the rendezvous and headquarters of thieves burglars holdups and the evil and immoral classes generally Our government govern-ment is most reckless and incompetent extravngent in the extreme and upon the authority of the organ of the party responsible for the bad administration is considered as affected with boodleism It is a matter of public notoriety that the credit of the corporation has been brought to such a low state that high rate interest bonds are hawked about in various markets at a discount without finding buyers wbllst other Utah cities which are not cursed by Liberal misrule have no difficult Jn disposing of their obligations at par When the Democratic administration shall be installed all this will be changed and Salt Lake will at once rise in the esteem es-teem of her own people nnd of the world The fact that tho party of misrule extravagance extrav-agance and boodlers in office has been turned down will be notice to everybody that a change of policy and methods will at once be inaugurated and the names of the new Democratio officials will bo a guarantee that the change will be for the better Tho proclamation will go forth that in Salt Lake the laws are to be enforced en-forced the administration no longer hobnobbing hob-nobbing with the criminal classes no longer dealing gently with thieves and crooks and violators of tho ordinances i through fear of losing votes The economic administration will at once restore re-store confidence in our financial ability and trustworthiness and you will hear no more of Salt Lake officials pleading with investors invest-ors to take our bonds at their own prices If the city should proposo to sell more bonds whjch it Is hoped the awful extravagance ex-travagance of the present Liberal administration I adminis-tration has not made necessarythe obli D gations will be readily taken for capitalists will know that the government is honest and responsible and would not bankrupt the municipality to make temporary lavish expenditures Wo ask all tho good citizens ot Salt Lake if the good government which would follow fol-low the election of the Democratic ticket is not desirable at this time Is the reform in the administration which the Democracy promise not absolutely essential to the welfare wel-fare of the city Can Salt Lake survive two years more of such government as that which has afflicted her during tbepast two years It seems to us that the question is less one of party politics than of the citys redemption and salvation The same bosses who are responsible for the present disastrous dis-astrous administration have named another batch of their henchmen and whilst the latter may be on a piano with the outgoing crowd in tile matters of honesty and morality mor-ality they are certainly not the equals of the retiring officials intellectually hence while the government would not be unproved un-proved in any respect by tho election of the Liberal candidates It would be made worse in some regards Citizens vote the Democratic ticket and cave the city |
