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Show TO EVERY ONE, HIS OWN. Among the many absurdities of the present municipal campaign, none is so utterly Incongruous as the parade in print of lands bought and Improvements Improve-ments made bv the Honorable Bsra Thompson In this city as a reason why Mr. Richard Morris should be re-elected Mayor In the frantic and Idiotic effort that Is made by the opposition press to show that the men who buy the property and make the Improvements, who build the houses and push the business of this city, the "knockers," that press Is obliged to (.instantly parade what ex-Mayor ex-Mayor Thompson and his friends have don.- by way of Improving the city. Th.-re Is never any effort made to show that Mayor Mortis has done anything Iq this line, that he has bought any property or built any houses, but merely mere-ly that others have been able to build houses and buy property In this city luring his administration; that is to say, reactionary, foolish and Incompetent Incompe-tent as his administration has been, he has not been able to completely stop all lmproemcnts and utterly paralyze the growth of the city. But when It is urged In his behalf that because his opponent has done things In behalf of the city In Improving Improv-ing and putting his money Into the advancement ad-vancement of the city and its interests, therefore that opponent should be defeated, de-feated, argument surely has reached Its utmost absurdity, and yet that Is the final and triumphant shout of the reactionary re-actionary press Mayor Morris should be re-elected because his opponent, Ezra Thompson, has bought property and built houses in this city, and Mayor Morris ha.s not; and Thomoson should be defeated because he has bought property and built houses here, and his Opponent, Mayor Morris, has not. Is not that a fine argument to present pre-sent to common-sense people? Why should Morris as a candidate receive Credit for what his opposing candidate has done for the lty ? Let us have a show ing for M r Morris on the things ho has done for the city, if any such showing can be made. The attempt to ride Mayor Morris into the Mayor's chair again on the back of Mr. Thompson, Thomp-son, anrl because Mr Thompson has done the things that Morris ought to have done, but would not do. Is such a show Ing that no one can fall to see the absurd humor of it. Let Mr Thompson hove the credit in his own candidacy for the things which he has done, and let Mayor Morris re- Blve the ohloquy which Justly attaches to his failure to do those things and to the subservience. pledge-breaking, botch-work he has done In his dealings with the robbing Smith Light and Railway company, nnd with the Big Cottonwood water scheme which he has now got into such shape that he should be glad to unload upon anyone that might be willing to take the burden. bur-den. Let every candidate stand on his ow n merit, and on his own record. Morris's record is bad all through, there Is not a bit of sense In attempting to give hlin credit for the good things that Mayor Thompson has done Thompson's Thomp-son's record commends him to the voters of this city, but Morris's is unutterably un-utterably condemned and smashed by the odious record which he has made |