Show HE PARTY ON X N Tuesday morning October 27 1908 just one week before the county election of two o years ago tile the Salt Lake Tribune in a first page box said saidA A defeat at the polls next nest Tuesday will be a blow Wow which Salt Lake will not recover from froID for many manya a day It Jt is the opinion of a representative of one of the largest property owners in Salt Lake City that the triumph of will be so discouraging to thousands of enterprising citizens that they will im irn immediately immediately mediately reconsider their intentions to further invest and to further build here that Salt Lake will again relapse into a state of inactivity and that hundreds and perhaps thousands disgusted with the methods of the leaders leader of the dominant church will place their properties on the market and prepare to take up a residence in American communities where ecclesiasticism ecclesiastic ism is not a menace and a curse I The above is reprinted for the purpose of showing that the same cry was made ma two years ago iago go that is being made now It is the same old attempt to drive the people into line for the party of o loot under the plea that Salt Lake will halt in ill its is march of progress Just one week later the people of Salt Lake found that the Republican party had carried die Ule county by a n plurality of votes over the Democratic ticket and votes vot s over oer the tile American ticket Tile The Republican candidates in the five city precincts were elected and the county ticket carried Salt Lake Lulie City by ly a plurality of about 1800 What has been bean the re result sult on the tile fortunes of Salt Lakel Lake The new Republican county officials took their oaths of office in January 1909 That year was the most prosperous in the history of Salt Lake Building permits that year reached the highest mark in the history of the olty oit Everything Ev Bv was prosperous Even the gamblers under the protection of the tile Tribune city poi edid so well that they the were grafted for about to apply to the Tribune ll deficit it It wits was a good year for everybody Hundreds and perhaps thousands did not leave SnIt Salt Luke Litke Capitalists did not refuse to invest in Salt Lake property One year ago ngo just prior to t the last city eity election the Salt Lake Tribune told the people that the year 1909 had bad boona beena great year eaI and that tha if they wanted another just like it they should bould vote the Tribune ticket and support the Tribunes candidate for mayor John Jom Brans Bransford Bransford ford Cord The 2110 people did support the Tribune ticket Bransford was elected by a it l vote larger than the combined vote of his two opponents arid the tile Tribune was firmly ensconced in power in II the city council What sort of a fl year has 1910 been in Salt Lake f I Business has Ims not been good Real es estate estate estate tate dealers have been thoroughly disgusted with the situation Me done any auy anything anything thing like the business in 1910 that they did in 1909 1009 We W e are not trying to make you OU believe that the Republican victory in 1908 wits responsible sible for the prosperity of the city in iii 1909 nor that the Tribune victory of 1909 was responsible ble for the lack lacic of prosperity this year 1910 But we do want to show you that Salt Lake prosperity has nothing to do with any an political party The Tue Tribune yells just before each county election that a n Tribune victory is necessary to the city and it yells just as loud l ud a year later that the year just dosed has been a great year due to the Tribune party It is a fl lot of idiocy that the people ought to understand by this time Lime This argument has been used for five year to get Republicans to vote the Tribune Tri une ticket rt t has Ims been used with much success sl to put the tile inner circle of the tho Tribune into a position where it could rob the tile people It has developed develOp d this year yeal that three millions of dollars have been stolen from the people in cold cash eash during the five years eals of Tribune control of the city ity The Tue tax levy leY has been given a 8 net increase of f mills in those five years each day that the Trib Tribune Tribune Tribune une has Ims been in power in the city eity it has JUtS added SOO to the bonded indebtedness of the city It is raising that same old cry err this year oar in the hope hoje that it can extend this system of loot looting looting looting ing to Salt Lake county There is little danger of it however Two years ago the result of the election was as follows REPUBLICANS DEMOCRATS TRIBUNE 1215 SOCIALISTS 1665 1 The impossibility of defeating the tIie c n party is apparent |