| Show SOME PHASES OF MUNICIPAL OFFICIAL LIFE There here are reasons to believe that certain certain tain tam gentlemen in this town walk around in the confident belief that they have Mayor ra or scalp dangling at their belts And there are some few tew men not difficult to find who are of ot the tho opinion that any time they want the mayors scalp they can go out and get it This of course argues argiee arg es that a i mayor can grow a new scalp after each removal of 01 the old oldIn oldIn oldIn In the past two years or more some things have Itao happened which make wake judicious people either Ither regret that the scalping has been done or confess contess they do not quite understand till all that goes goeson goeson goeson on in the mayoral sanctum But they have hayo lave seen Mr Bransford accept situa ions which he certainly like They have seen him submit to treat treatment treatment ment meat not compatible with any accepted idea dea of ot manhood m hood And Arid knowing the mayor and respecting him Wm they simply confess they do not understand and let lel lett lelit it t go at that Time and again sagacious citizens know enow that the mayor mayor has locked horns with certain prominent makers of or cipal politics and come away without that credit cr cre lit which his plain speech and andUs I Us his known l capacity tor foi independence L lead ead observers to expect And AIla the sad saddest Baa saddest dest dest part of or the entire spectacle is that his collisions on these occasions oc are are in Invariably invariably variably with the forces s that make for tor forthe forthe the undesirable side of life Ufe His com corn combats combats bats seem ever to be with people who ought to be overthrown And nd so faras far faras faras as the people can see se fl if I any anyone one Is ls overthrown It Is ts the mayor Which is not comforting Far Par be It from The Herald I ican to espouse the cau ca so unlucky a knight aJohn as John Bransford rd But from I eat con of ot the t tilting co ground we have observed with sincere regret a number or struggles in IIi which the mayor was all but unhorsed d and an w we take great t pleasure in assuring him hl that he use all aU his w weapons na nor his best weapons sAlso Also he strike as aa hard as he could coul And in these combats at tournament it should be understood that thai contender cont is 18 al at allowed allowed lowed to hit as harI hard hn as he likes He Heis HeIs HeIs is indeed expected to win his battle if he can Also and from the same seat at the side of the tilting ground we have hae pleasure In calling to the them mayor m that he can ca very fight In which he ho enters There Is no good rea rca reason reason son why he should br break ak a lance with the board of works and with the coun council council cil cli and let the matter drop there He still has a sword and a hammer and an ax Take one Take all nIl For every ev ry foeman there Is a weapon that I win bring him down The mayor is expected by Salt Lake to win in his h s fights ts with the fellows fello ws II I Iwho who fight him him They are not friends I of him nor of ot the city They are his enemies And since he can lick them If It h tries he will be charged with not 5 wanting them licked if he oses to L them Furthermore there are ara ar more good people than bad people seated here hereabout hereabout tere about the arena There are are more inore for him than against him So that Mayor I Bransford may cut loose whenever he will and have his way in this city i government govern and all the good people will say Amen AmenI And An l the bad people can go to Hall Hali Halifax fax tax I |
