Show GIVES MORAN A CINCH Having arranged matters so there can be no competition in the paving of Salt Lake P J r Moran has the city e exactly where here any intelligent contractor would like to have it By the grace of the lone Jone Republican and the Americans and Democrats alike in the councIl he has bas had the lowest bid on pavIng re reJected rejected and the whole matter ordered re reopened reopened opened He has moreover cleared the field of the only contractors who in any anyway ny way interfered with h his 3 monopoly and andis andis is now In position to charge what he pleases ses do the work when ho he pleases and presumably to do it t to suit his own notion ot of the way work sho should ld be bedone bedone done rust Just what motives were behind the action of the Democrats does not ap appe appear pe pear r though there is a strong suspicion that they wanted to postpone the whole paving business for at least a year longer The Tho Am ricans joined In Morans game of strangling compe competition competition for the evident purpose of giving giving ing Moran a monopoly and insuring them a 8 continuance of his potent poll poli political influence In campaign times and for such luch other considerations as may maybe maybe be supposed to govern a reform party be headed ded by A J Davis and T R Black Meanwhile the people on the streets affected may continue ut pave pae pavement mente ment the general public m may wallow In mud during the winter and strangle in dust the remaining months when whenever eyer they have occasion to travel in that part ot of town Moran has carried h his B poInt What more could an any reformer ask |