Show A REACTIONARY ATTITUDE Tho Democratic attitude In this city is not only a challangr to prosperity In general but It Is a cry against the growth and advancement of Salt Lake The Democratic yarty by its declarations declara-tions t and Its candidates stands for a little lit-tle Salt Lake as against a Greater Salt Lake It objects to the efforts of Mayor Thompson to have the Parleys canyon reservoir built but Indorses he leader ahlp of Its own party whereby It assured as-sured that It shall not be built It declares de-clares for a business administration and yet opposes for Mayor the best representative rep-resentative business man ever nominated nominat-ed In this city Its orijnn declares that the attempt to Inject National Issues Into this campaign cam-paign will fall and it should fall But National issues arc already In the campaign cam-paign and necessarily FO The move for a Greater Salt Lake for advancement for improvement for growth for progress prog-ress for meeting half way every sub stantial proposition for the upbuilding of the city as endorsed by the Republican Repub-lican party Is mcicly our local carryIng carry-Ing out of the partys general policies tor the whole country As this regeneration regen-eration of business trade and general prosperity was brought about through and by the triumph of the Republican party In our Nation and the application of Republican politics to the conditions found to be existing so will the advancement ad-vancement of this city be made sure and absolute by > the triumph of the Republicans I Re-publicans In this campaign precisely as that advancement would necessarily be blighted and retarded by the success of the Democracy It Is a proposition so apparent that it docs not need to be argued ar-gued to any person of a discerning mind But It is objected the Republican party has been In control for four yeara and what has It done Ve expected that But the statement Is not true The specific objection that must be urged against that claim Is that the Republican Re-publican party has not been in control It Is notorious that the Republican pat ty t has been thwarted in its control by a combination of which a Democrat has been the leading spirit To charge the Republican parly with responsibility responsibil-ity for the past two years Is at once n mockery and an untruth The very excuse ex-cuse the unfailing reply to all appeals in this matter has been that the matter was not political The Republican party must therefore decline to be held responsible for a condition of affairs J which It i had no hand in bringing about and against which It never failed to en ter its protest It cannot be made responsible re-sponsible for the faults of Democratic engineering The Republicans of this city declare the oatamount Issue I in this campaign to be the welfare and advancement of Salt Lake City On this they take their stand The opposition not only contest this generally they have put up a ticket which means the opposite No one can fall to note this as the dividing line between be-tween the parties this year In this city Democracy means slagnullon retrogression retro-gression precisely as It did In National affairs in 1S93 Republicanism means life progress regeneration precisely as it did in National affairs In 1807 |