Show TWO JWO PLATFORMS I IlI Usually a party part platform to is supposed I to tell tehi what the party has done dona and alta I what it proposes to do with some me sug suggestion au suga a as a to when the th promised ro r lUlar KW to b bf be also tb B In t tto na f y are oX eol J to get eL f m 1 i It f C comm ll tor for peat Bi l Tn th r ic 11 I 4 4 J platform of oC the American Amadean party is I unique since sinco it neither men mentions mentions mention tion its Ita chief chlof organizers and sponsors nor refers r Cera to their political 1 records It Itis Itis is 18 unique further in that it contains no word of at its intended policy as to municipal government although it is Aspiring to control Qt It O th city and ita offices emcee On a simple platform outlining a practical plan for tor the permanent re mova of ot church influence en the Amer Amor Americans might secure a respectable showing of ot votes because a good many man people in and out of ot the church agree that such a consummation is desirable But flut when the thi platform Is made by men nien who in years past have profited politically and commercially commer lally by the tho help of the church the tIme average citizen is IR en entitled titled tithed to doubt the tho value of this prom promise promIse ise lee that church Influence will be b retired by the triumph of the same sarno men menNo menNo menNo No political party over won a victory that was founded on au the time disappoint disappointment disappointment ment meat of ot politicians and their desire for revenge and unless human nature is ismore Ismore ismore more credulous in Utah than anywhere else eise the American party is not going to reverse history this year Apart from froni this childlike promise the American platform hug hits no work working wo k kIng ing lug creed Whereby hereby Its Us future may be bc judged It contains no reference to its policy on public Improvements and wisely so o because ft the tIme most moat conspicuous pus pus ous the time wan men who have fought public Improvement most per persistently and senselessly were loaders in the convention which adopted the platform They Thoy knew new and the public knows knos they the did did not n t dare dale express their sentiments that the people would repudiate r them in advance if their plat platform platform form Conn were honestly written They Th y know knew and amid the public knows that if the American party part could take the management tomorrow it could only carry crry out IB every detail the plans in hi inaugurated by the present Democratic administration In every ever branch of the he It would have to build the tho Big Cottonwood conduit it would have to secure water by exchange from the time tanners farmers of or Big and Little Cottonwood it would have hao to continue continuo the street paving and sidewalk Hl improvements In Ina Ina a word worth It would have Ita e to do exactly what hat the time Morris administration is go going going ing lag to do In its very silence the American platform is a humbug doc doe document document intended to make the people be he believe lieve they the would have a change of ot some sort where no change is possible Contrast Contra t this with the outspoken challenge of ot the Democratic platform It recites the record of ot work done it stands by the achievements ments of the ad administration administration ministration and asks approval as it has hlis a U right to do It apologizes for nothing because nothing in the record needs an apology It recites a plain story tory of business well managed and asks for a retention of the time management which has baa done its work ork well welI There Thero are no rhetorical platitudes no balder balderdash dash clash from flom men who ho have used med church influence as long as they could get it and then posed as 5 patriots spurning their benefactors no humbug of o any kind about bout the time Democratic plat plot platform Platform form but a 8 straightforward recital of fact and a confident expectation of ot sup support support support port from the voters |