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Show GOES OUT DISCREDITED. It was sure to come; the opposition has been preparing for It for some time. The fuilure of the old city administration ad-ministration to account for the million dollars of water bond money, made It a necessity In their business. That thing which was sure to come, and which Is a necessity In the business of the late ecclesiastical city administration, is an attempt to make the people believe that the present city administration should be held responsible for the expenditure of the million dollars voted to Increase the water supply of this city. Speaking In behalf of ex-Mayor Morris, the organ or-gan of the priesthood and of himself, puts it this way: The new party which became successful in consequence of the fight carried on by the two reular political parties will. In our opinion, be compelled by tho force of circumstances and the Inherent qualities Of projected measures for the welfare of the city, to proceed along the lines which he and the majority of the City Council so clearly marked out. For what shall he done by the new municipal authorities In the perfection of those plana they should and doubtless Will receive due credit But the honor of their origin. Inception and advancement to their present point will r. si with Mayor Morris and his coadjudl-cators, coadjudl-cators, and will redound to th'lr praise f.,r n'.any years to come. The fact Is that the idea of the water supply from Rip Cottonwood originated with Frank Kelsey, then City Engineer, and was subsequently elaborated In detail de-tail by Col Holmes when he was president presi-dent of the Commercial 'lub, In connection con-nection with the water reports made by the celebrated committee of fif ty, which did such excellent work with respect to all the possible sources of water supply sup-ply for the city. It Is a stupid insult to the Intelligence Intelli-gence of the public to pretend that there Is money enough left of that million mil-lion dollars to carry out the water plans; their advancement to their present point" has been by pros-; WOStS of the public money, the essential things which are the key to the whole scheme being ignored. There were specified speci-fied In ofllclul address to the taxpayers the sums of two hundred thousand dollars dol-lars for Improvements at T'tah Lake, twenty thousand dollars to clean and repair the main canal; and forty thousand thou-sand dollars for extinguishing adverse claims to needed water rights. None of these things has been done, and there is not as much money I. ft from the- bond sales us the items specified amount to; while II is certain that the acquirement of the needed water rights now must be at a cost far n excess of the estimate It Is plain that there la a plot to hide the facts, and to make an outcry that the American administration will he to blame If the botched plans for the added water supply are not fully carried out. But It Is Impossible that such a palpable palpa-ble fraud should Impose upon anybody. Tn order to fully clear the situation, however, no doubt the new administration, administra-tion, as soon as the facts can be got at, will make a complete statement of the condition of this fund, how much of It has been 6pent and what for. how much Will be required to meet existing contracts, con-tracts, and how much will be left to meet the expenditures pledged in the official address to the taxpayers. It will necessarily be a bad showing, because it will show breach of faith with the people. Jobbing expenditures not Included in the scheme as submitted to the taxpayers, the diversion diver-sion of funds in ways not contemplated, contem-plated, and the utter neglect of some of the most essential points In the whole plan. The pretense that the City baa bee.n well served In this matter, and that the people endorse the retiring Mayor is sheer fraud and impudence. The reverse is true. The city has been betrayed shamelessly Its interests perverted per-verted and its progress jeopardized The money left In the water bond fund Will fall far short of doing the things planned., because, despite prudence and public remonstrance, It has been squandered squan-dered on things useless and not contemplated con-templated So far from Mayor Morris going out of office with the respect and esteem of the public, he goes out under a cloud by reason of his failure to keep faith with the public that trusted him, and his inability to make a complete accounting ac-counting for the million dollars he received. The particulars are cited above, and his abominable course with respect to the water Service last summer, which led to an Indignation meeting of citizens, is not forgotten, Neither Is it forgotten that he pledged himself at that meeting meet-ing to exploit the artesian well propo- sltlon. and utterly fall.d to redeem hts pledge. He goes out of office a thoroughly tho-roughly discredited official, one who has by his shameful laxity and carelessness in making contracts with the farmers of Big Cottonwood, sown the seeds of infinite trouble and mischief for the city. The News's eulogy Is thoroughly dls-honesl dls-honesl It praises him for things he has not done, the motive for the extending ex-tending of that praise having no r-f- rem e to the subject, but having its foundation in the tact that Mayor Mor-ri Mor-ri lelded till manhood, and servilely signed ;i franchise for the hlera ich's lltrhi and street monopoly law that he had repeatedly pledged himself not to sign, and which will be a crushing Incubus In-cubus upon this city for more than fifty fif-ty years to come. |