Show THE MAIN QUESTION Just one question concerns the voters In this city campaign more any other Issue that can be raised That ThatIs Is which party offers the best candi candidates candidates dates the most certain assurance of a good city administration The Americans insist that In some mysterious way wa the tho hierarch is an Issue that R P Morris and his asso associates associates elates on the Democratic ticket are I slaves of the church though just how is not explained and that the only way to save savo Salt Lake from the awful dominion of the bogle bogie is to elect John Bransford and A J J Davis and a few others who comprise the American ticket On their part the Republicans de declare declare clare dare a crisis exists such as has not confronted a people since the dark days das of 61 and that the only road to salvation from an awful fate is by the election of Dr Plummer Neither either of ot these factions cares to dis discuss discuss discuss cuss the nominees or the municipal problems which should be the chief concern of the taxpayer and voter The Americans will discuss the tho weather or the tho cut of ot Senator Smoots mustache or the effect of ot the beet be t crop this year ear on the output of the mines The Republicans will debate d bate earnestly about the tariff on Saratoga chips chip or the Importations of Limburger as a menace to the homegrown nl cab cabbage cabbage cabbage bage But propose to discuss city in indebtedness Indebtedness Indebtedness the tho excessive cost of public improvements or the relative merits of ot the Morris forris and Bransford and Plummer Plum Plummer Plummer mer tickets and their minds begin to towander towander towander wander lit What question can be more pressing more Important In Its relation to the future of ot the city than the honesty the ability and the qualifications for office of ot the men who are nominated and will willbe willbe be voted upon soon What is more pertinent than a study of the Amer American AmerIcan Amerlean ican lean administrations record for tor the past two years as Indicating its un unworthiness unworthiness worthiness for tor public trust Why should not the experience or lack of experience of ot Dr Plummer be a proper matter for analysis by the voters What hat else but municipal problems can be decided by the approaching elec clec election tion The Americans say their success is needed to save and redeem Salt Lake from the domination of the Mor lor Mormon Mormon lormon mon church That is what Kipling would call caU futile piffle The Amer Americans AmerIcans leans have been In office two years cars and have done their utmost to complicate complicate cate the problem of church and state If It they could settle the most vexatious question Utah has they would not do doit doit doit it The domestic turmoil and social bitterness they have engendered Is their political stock In trade and they make money by It to say nothing of ot the offices they secure through it Be Behind Behind Behind hind the smoke and noise and flurry of ot their howl for the salvation of Salt Lake marches their army ann of spoils men looting the city treasury hand handing handing handIng ing out fat contracts to the favored ones utilizing the police department for tor political ends protecting pet pete poker rooms running the tho slot machines wide open raising taxes and other things Many fany of their rank and file believe In la their cause but the men who run the thema machine ma must snicker ker when they yell yeti for reform offices offic es esQuite Quite as as futile uti Is i S the Macedonian cry L i 0 of the tho Republican machine Demoralized handicapped by unpopular leader leadership leadership leadership ship having alienated the major see sec section tion of ot their own party In I City they would be as loath as the I to see the great problem In Utah settled Strife Strite is the breath of ot their nostrils It gives them undisputed undisputed control of the state outside the cities clUes them a mortgage on the federal offices a chief voice in the na national national national councils of ot their party part Like the Americans they would not If they could end the strife strite because it would mean a division of ot party spoils and an end to their autocratic control of fed federal federal federal eral plums Both of ot these factions talk as if it they believed the fate of the nation hung on the election of ot a mayor and council In Salt lake City Both know such talk Is mere twaddle campaign for the delusion of the unwary The election of a territorial delegate from Guam Giam would excite the nation more and affect its political destiny quite as much as the election of a municipal administration in Salt Lake The Tue only people concerned and vital vitally vitally ly 11 interested are the people in Salt Lake who pay the expense of running the city who are confronted with a treasury deficit who see taxes raised and Indebtedness piled plied up through ex extravagance extravagance extravagance To them the one question Is whether the Democrats or Republicans or Americans will give them the best city management And to them the Democrats present in their ticket the very best of ot reasons for expecting to win |