Salt Lake Herald | 1905-09-17 | Page 1 | Reform Still the Battle Cry

REFORM STILL THE BATTLE CRY New Ticket ct of Philadelphia Gang GangI I I I Proves Unpopular I CROWDED TOWN MEETINGS NOTED SPEAKERS S AJ K ERS ERS DENOUNCE p I Sept 16 New im impetus imp PHILADELPHIA r petus p t was given ghen the political contest contests s here ter between Mayor Mayot Weaver and the I Ifs reform element of which the City party IB If an integral part on the one side and the regular Republican R organization led by Former State Insurance Commissioner Israel W V Durham on the other by b to days ant development in the situation In order to regain re aln whatever prestige it might have lost since the mayor began t crusade for Cor good municipal govern goern government ment mont the organization aided by b a com corn committee commIttee of ot prominent citizens all au members of the Union league today toda selected a new local ticket to be voted for at the November election City Party Meetings Tonight three town meetings were nera held under the auspices of oC the City party part as asa asa asa a protest against the methods of the or organization organization Immense crowds attended all allor allor allor or the meetings The TIme principal speakers were Mayor Weaver V lver Charles Emory iSmor Smith former postmaster general g n ral Wayne ane MacVeagh former attorney general and William Potter former minister to Italy Itah days dars before Mayor Weaver eaver broke with ith the organization the regular Republican Republican lican lIean convention cont nUon nominated candidates for forthe forthe forthe the Judiciary the sheriff coroner and city commissioner The contest made by bythe bythe bythe the City party on the tite ticket resulted in inthe inthe inthe the withdrawal of all the candidates last week with the exception of the nominees for the bench Today the citizens committee after aCter a conference with a subcommittee of the Republican city committee presented the following names as fiS substitutes for those withdrawn Sheriff Dr Dl Joseph S Neff coroner Thomas Dugan city commis commissioner Howard A Chase and William Mayor Weaver Emphatic Mayor Weaver in his address a dress this thin even een evening lag ing In stated that the mapped d dout Out bi b the organization included the ex cx exhausting exhausting of the borrowing borrow Ins capacity of the city the of the tax rate and fin finally finally finally ally the thEt th s of the waterworks Concerning the assessment aS of place placeholders placeholders holders for tor political purposes Mayor Maor Wea Vea Weaver v ver jr sail said From this time forward no city cl em shall ever be assessed one dollar or orone orono orone one ono cont Coot for political purposes The investigations that have been start started od ed by the administration the mayor said would proceed Every boodler every and every ever grafter shall and must be stopped he declared Th resolutions summoned all honest citizens without distinction of party to unite against the grafters and to stand for the th defense and maintenance of clean government