| Show THE LIBERAL ILATLOIUL The latest Liberal platform is a very brief one and so general in its statements I as to be almost without meaning The few direct and intelligible statements it contains con-tains are mainly Hat contradictions of former utterances and present practices ol the same party We cite the leading statements state-ments of tho platform to prove this The Liberal party of Salt Lake in convention con-vention assembled declared Monday night 4 We recognize the source of political power as residing in the people A few weeks ago the Liberal central committee com-mittee declared that the Liberal party I heartily endorsed the riminM bill for tVm disfranchisement of Mormons and circulated h circu-lated a petition in support of that measure Further hypocrisy on the same question is shown by what immediately follows On November 30 lSSS the chief Liberal organ said Lawsa to withhold citizen papers and to prevent Mormons from hereafter here-after obtaining title to public land ought to be passed as soon as Congress meets Last winter the same party declared in campaign document No 3 It is sufficient answer to make to the attack made on the Liberal party to say that no man has been nor will be disfranchised in America who does not violate the laws of his country Whatever Congress may do we are making no attack upon any religious organization Monday nights dec aration says Public Pub-lic works should be lot and materias purchased pur-chased for same by open and fair competition competi-tion wherein all who desire to undertake or furnish the same shall have euual opportunity op-portunity without prejudice or favor The swer work for example which is given to those only who will voto the Liberal tcket the police forco is another example and tUe fire depattment another of work reserved exclusively for Liberals declaration says The Liberal party SiltLike opposes jobbery oa the water V question and recagnize duly established rights therein For instance a few weeks since the Lberals propose to sell tle city water to a Liberal company and a mammoth mam-moth protest signed by five thousand residents resi-dents was necessary to prevent the jobbery job-bery beryA A Liberal campaign dccument of last wint2r endorsed as goad doctrine and I printed as campaign mattsr the petition of Mrs Bitowx the owner of a dry lot Part of the petition is as follows This claim of individual appropriation is at war with the claim that the city has the right to dis tributeits waters among its citizens As your petitioner believes they have no more right toassert inlividual appropriation appro-priation to the water than they have to say that the city governin exists for their sole benefit The declaration Wo oppose the multi plication 01 offices in uio nanus 01 acy one I man declare for economy in the public service Four of the five men holding the office of registrar were placed on the Liberal ticket the February election and I three registrars have prospective offices similarly multiplied on them by nomination nomina-tion for the August electiox Every department de-partment of the public service has had its t exiTenscs vastly increased since the Liberals have had charge of the city government gov-ernment I The Liberal party gladly l and fully acknowledges the abiding obligation it sunder i s-under whenever and wherever it has the I power to do so to uphold virtue and i morality and suppress vice and crime Saloons open on Sunday and all l night gambling dens and palaces of the demimonde demi-monde have openly nourished since the inaugurAtion in-auguration of Liberal rule in this city The Liberal organ defends and Liberal officurb make apologies for this triumphant flaunting of vice in the faces of citizens A Liberal platform is a curious thing |
