Show THE CITY CAMPAIGN There is no disguising the fact that tim Is I a very strong fueling In tin public mind with regard to he t ensuing city election Thu action of certain I City Couilolhncn In d Is regard ing their party tieH to ainilate with the opposition opposi-tion I and keeping up that uUlUatlon throughout their term In obedience to sonic sentiment or power other than political has given rlHe to the most anxious fears that we Ire upon a time when new alignments may hnc to be male H there is no power In political ties to bind men to their party as against some other claims It will be natural to scelc the real dividing line and to ascertain 1C I possible what sort of allegiance can be exacted from candidates can-didates l and oflloeholders J it had been even so much as claimed that the party to which the Councilman referred TO pretended to render their allegiance had asked of them to do anything detrimental to the progress of the city or contrary to Republican Re-publican principles there might be tome palliation for their conduct But nothing of the sort can be claimed On the contrary In allying > themselves with the opposition party they have banded themselves together In a coal tion that has proved to be distinctly adverse to the progress or the city and hostile to Its best interests The common com-mon rumor has It that the bond of this unholy union Is Mormon church influence influ-ence The Tribunes doesnot charge that this is so far from Il we hold that those who charge It should prove it to be a fact The church organ last night I vehemently denied the charge but Its denials are at call any time when church interests require them that Is fully understood and Its denials count for nothing We are wholly justified too in saying that the whole matter has an extremely suspicious look The Tribune stands for Republican politics and for Republican party fealty J does not consider It worthwhile worth-while to elect men to office as Republicans Repub-licans unless they are content to pull straight in the traces and adhere to their party allegiance It doesnt want any repetition of the result of two years ago when the Republicans nominally elected eleven out of fifteen CouncIlmen only to find that I had really but seven and that a junta of eight had been formed In control oC the chief representative of the nom inally Democratic party In the Council Coun-cil which set Itself determinedly to oppose op-pose the admanlstration of the Republican Repub-lican Mayor and to carry confusion into every department of the municipal administration so far as it had the power to do so We believed In a straight parly fight in that election and made it only to be betrayed We believe In a straight party fight now and want to make It hut not with the prospect of landing In the same slough of despond We see the leader of this Junta openly proclaiming that members of the Council Coun-cil must be chosen not by reason of their party principles but on a division as to number with respect to their membership or nonmembership In the Mormon church This is not politics Republicanism cant stand for any pro gramme o that kind and 1C that If to be the dividing line the sooner we all find it out and completely sense the fact the sooner can the voters understand under-stand whether It IB worth while to make an effort to avoid the old hsues or not in this election |