Show REVIEW OF THE FLATFORM I Colonel ILannana platform written I by onn of his employees a adopted I by his city convention resembles the old stylo July oraiions delivered 3 quairtiee of a century ago in the rural regions of Vermont I is a regular ripsnorter combining the scream of the uncJerit pread eagle with the joy l Xul Meat of a lab returned t the fold hence it wandered I is so pompous and self i tisiiedta its tone so long on bluster and short on facts that i seems a if the party had dpt mine to enter upon anotber era Of the bloody shirt I is totally void of consistency but L conslidcnng the source from which its inspiration is drawn how could i bet be-t otherwise I repudiates the handiwork r f handi-work of its author two years ago and tc the position occupied by the r TjQBiKand his organ three years ago I fl nounrss the municipal administration oT Major Clark and claims that the Success of the goldbug ticket 1f 1S9G I was all that saved the country from financial ruin 1 deprecates the m Ira vagunee and wastefulness of the nonpartrsan regime and congratulates congratu-lates the people upon l the change in I business condition which came to the L country upon the restoration of the Kepublicon party to power Whether this was brought about by Hannas financial policy Sr Dingtoys tariff law is not stated hut the organ will no doubt exnlain lioxv the Republican party brought this prosperity about J or the sake of convenience the colonel platform may be divided into two section the national and the JooU the sublime ann the ridiculous Let us examine the 0 liifalutin < first In these dark days of national travail when the life of the republic is jti such imminent peril when a tribe of fsouth s isJanders who havent a i Fh1p or a catboat to their name threaten t wipeout our glorious nation I Uunl 9is every citizen grabs a gun ands and-s at Hannas back the human b ul is frequently stimulated to fine j ut of cgony Ala arouses i L eloquence Misery commands rhetoric i 2Cothinig of recent publication ha depicted I r de-picted the pervasive apprehensions of the human race and proved the abso pjUt necessity for war a gold standard l4 more war s terribly and forcibly I1e follow ing lofty flight of the lon eU R pub lo-n platform i TIm JliiiuhWcan party always the pat lIoUC 1 Lt or tile Country eoxigraiulases I thC rt Pk m the glorous results of the 1 iU 11 Sa1n on 11te cntncilRltion of I NlIr L 1 1iJple l in tww liemlsphcrei and fI f1t tho br llia t record of the TTtah soj tIie1vh g noo for tliembelVftS lniperbli a11o tenonfa n nd made ftiustnaus tht jjwcjie wf X laJi amom tlw groat roll of ptntes 4n this American w on h Qinference is of course that there l 4S1i t ja Democratic volunteer from i j111 any other state that Democrats Demo-crats are a disloyal set who care nothI jug for thfe country in which they live I > th Imperishable renown of the z and navy is the exclusive propI Witle 3ubHeani > artyaid that W iSpation bf the < prfS 1 q Jl twohttnlspheres wtz accom Ylj t e I o 0 f 1 S j 1 h 1 plished mainly by Ezra Thompson Arthur Pratt and their colonel 1 I This doesnt tally altogether with the utterances of the local Republican organ a year ago when it repeatedly 1 averred that the war was conducted by Imbeciles and rogues that the I J I I army was controlled and mismanaged j by senile dotards whose love for the J fioSdler was a sham and whose patriotIsm 1 patriot-ism was based on pecuniary interest j and personal aggrandizement It doesnt harmonize with the statement j of the Republican organ that the I volunteers N were needlessly exposed shamefully neglected deprived of suitable suit-able clothing and proper nourishment fedon putrid meats and mobilized in pest holes bythe HannaPlattElkins syndicateat the head of national affairs af-fairs Bat littte discrepancies like this never trouble our morning contemporary contempor-ary Here It goes again We congratulate the l people upon the Change 4n business conditions which came tr IJieffcoUntry upon the restoration of the Republican party to power and rejoice in enlarged commercial activity in this city as a part of that general prosperity now enjoyed throughout the country v > o happily hap-pily reversinc the gloom and depression in busineB which accompanied the accession ac-cession to and the contimuuice In power of tho Democratic congress and administration adminis-tration Three years ago we were given to understand that no known policy of Republicanism could bring prosperity and that if prosperity came it would be from influences over which the Republican Re-publican party has no control That was the colonels position then A year and a half ago he informed the public that no tariff could help the country and that the Dingley bill was a fraud and a travesty upon protection One year ago he informed us through the editorial columns of his personal organ the present mouthpiece of Mark Hanna that all the prosperity i davning upon the people was due to i famines abroad good crops at home 1 and an increased output of the mines Three months ago it said that the war and the Alaskan gold fleus had done it But now that the boss has declared through his plaiform that prosperity is due to the restoration of the Republican party to power we look to see his newspaper t take it all back and apologize for inadvertently speaking the truth before it knew that Ezra would get the nominatipn for illayer i r 0 In Its discussion of local questions tho platform descends from the sublime 1 sub-lime to the ridiculous It denounces Mayor Clarks administration or JtlalI administration to quote the exact expression i ex-pression it says that public moneys I have been wasted and that partisan jobs have been perpetrated at the expense ex-pense of the public Mayor Clarks I administration is I Lannans administration administra-tion 3rattj administration What jobs have been I ever partisan perpetrated per-petrated were their jobs Every one of the mayor appointments went through with the single exception ot Pratt who held on and litigated at the public expense until the power of the state was invoked to remove him Perhaps the money wasted rider thIs administration was wnsfea by Pratt in 1 continuous litigation However ifihis I is counted against nonpartisan rule we doubt if i the books of the present city treasurer will show aloss as compared com-pared with the accounts othis Republican Repub-lican predecessor The feuporlntendent I of waterworks the walermasttr and 1 the health officer are berateil roundly for extravagant and unbusiness like conduct of their respective departments depart-ments Is this the business administration adminis-tration guaranteed by the committee Whidh named the present mayor of the city Messrs P H Lannan John Henry Smith C C Goodwin John E Dooly et al signed aor address to the Salt LakE public pledging John Clark to conduct the business of the city on a business basis tQ select none but officials of-ficials of applOed fitness and experience ex-perience and declared over their signatures sig-natures that the citys servants and employees should be selected for these qualifications and no others That a majority in the city council is Democratic Demo-cratic does not excuse these gentlemen nor justify their present attitude It was John Clark who named the superintendent super-intendent of waterworks the selection selec-tion was approved by the Tribune It was John Ciark who named the Ifl master the city physician and the sanitary inspector and the Tribune insisted in-sisted that the council should ratify each nomination Then Shat l are the colonel and his I candidate and his hired man howling about They got what they cried for two years ago and now they are cryIng I cry-ing because they got it How unreasonable un-reasonable But that is not the worst of the offending The full enormity of the platform can only be seen in the light of history The humane society should prosecute the unnatural father of nonpartisanism for attempting to abandon his illegitimate offspring on the Democratic doorstep |