Show 1 c cI 1 I IT T A NEW NEY TRIBUNE WELL W knowing that its county ticket is doomed the instructions instruct were reiterated from Tribune headquarters yesterday to let the remainder of the ticket go and concentrate upon the two to commissioners the county assessor and the clerk Former Tribune party men and Democrats who nauseated by tle V deal are going to vote the ean an ticket were the subjects of earnest pleas that they vote for the Tribune une candidates for the Tribune coun county county county ty assessor n and the Tribune county clerk That is the scheme that is to be worked today Why is the tile Tribune crowd so anxious to control these offices 7 In the tile first place with the county assessor in its control the Tribune will be able practically to double the assessed val valuation l of every dollars worth of property in Salt Lake county The fifteen mill miU tax levy that is assessed this year ear will not be raised next year for the Tribune inner circle knows that the people will not stand it but by having baving the county assessor in its ifs control cOl the Tribune will be able to raise the valuation and get additional taxes without touching the tax levy In five years this crowd has made a net increase of mills in the tax levy it has collected a million and a half of dol dollars dollars dollars lars in general taxes in excess of what was ever collected before in a similar period of the history It has steadily raised the tile tax levy each year to do this This year the tax ta levy was raised two mills and it is about all that the tile people will stand With the officer in its it hands who fixes fi es the assessed valuation they will get the money without increasing the lexy The same will willbe be true in the county outside the city where the Republican county administration has kept the levy at atthe atthe atthe the same figure for ten years With a Tribune county assessor to increase the valuation and the Tribune county commis commissioners commissioners commissioners the taxing power to increase in rease tile the county levy the county property owners will be taxed out of existence It has been the boast of the Tribune candidate for county assessor that if he is elected he be means to raise the valuation of the farm land in the county If the people of Salt Lake county want their taxes raised all they will need to do is to vote the Tribune ticket for commissioners and for assessor today And as any raise in the county tax levy affects every property owner in the city because the city cit property owner also pays the county tax it is necessary that this latest scheme of the Tribune inner circle be beaten If the business bu ness men of Salt Lake fall in with this scheme they will be forced to pay for it for the two years to come Much Mitch M ch of the revenue of the county goes through the office of the county clerk It would be worth a great deal to the Tribune to t have its candidate for county clerk cleric elected to that office There is a great deal of county printing to be done and if the Tribune candidate for county clerk is elected the Tribune will get it all and at any price it cares to charge for it Every Ev ry ounce of energy that the Tribune party has today will be concentrated in inan an effort to elect tIle tie long and short term commissioners the county assessor and the tile county clerk Those who want their taxes raised to the place where they cannot pay them will fall for this scheme Those who want to retain an economical administration in county affairs will oppose OOS it Kearns Keams lias has thrown down every other oilier man on the Tribune county ticket but these four offices Even his own pressman candidate for sheriff has been thrown by b r the board Every Ev ry ounce of o influence and cash that Kearns can bring to the tile rescue was being used yesterday and all of oI last night to ef of effect effect feet a combination that will elect the four most important offices in the county count that is most important for the uses to which Kearns desires to put them Kearns made macic the statement in ill the t e Vienna cafe I AM GOING TO TAKE SALT LAKE COUNTY And when he lie said that he lie meant these four offices because the commissioners are eally the county administration and have the taxing power the assessor fixes the taxable value of the property and the office of county clerk is the tile one that his newspapers want in order that they will not have to graft the saloon men and the gamblers so heavily I IAM AM GOING TO TAKE rAKE SALT LAKE COUNTY says Kearns But is he lie |