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Show THE OPPOSITION'S VAGARIES. .'Tht! opposition I. press is exceedingly vague, uncertain and prejudiced in its treatment of tin; . affairs of the city; it charges all sorts of bad work, but is not prepared to prove anything. The opposition is continually talking about deficits, financial mismanagement, and the like; but the open, notorious facts confute all these malicious - and unfounded un-founded charges. The fact, that the American - parly has put in here vastly more public improvements than the church parlies have done from the beginning of the city's settlement is a knockdown argument argu-ment against the malignant eharges that are constantly brought by the opposition. There is nothing in ihe least worthy of credence or substantial substan-tial in these eharges. On the other hand, as voiced in the Republican city platform, 'the- opposition opposi-tion congratulates the Republican party (not the people, nnd especially not the taxpayers,) upon the "splendid and able administration of ihe affairs of ihe State and the county." The people's peo-ple's estimate of Ihe efficiency of the administration of' ihe affairs of the State may be fairly judged by -the pop-' ular condemnation voiced at the eapitol election last June. Naturally the people peo-ple would bo in favor of a Slate eapitol, eapi-tol, because it saves money; it preserves pre-serves and safeguards the archives of the State; and it lifts the Stnle into the dignity of owning its own public place nf business. A State that has to rent a place in which its public business busi-ness has to be transacted, can hardly be counted in the front rank. Utah, the oldest settled of lliesc Western commonwealths, is behind in this matter; mat-ter; not, however, because tho people are not willing to measure up to the standard set by other progressive States, but because of their discontent discon-tent with and condemnation of the manipulations man-ipulations of "the Federal Bunch" and the church political bosses. In the county, the church Republican Republi-can party may be congratulated upon the theft of some $5000 of public money to reward the. party organ for the publication of the tax list; also, it appears, the "Republican" pnrty in its city convention approves the raise of the taxes by the county this year in order to enable the county grafters tp square their, books. Ordinarily tho county would noi conic into the. city politics, .but they arc brought into this election .by :the .church Republican party. The public, however, received no congratulation for thpinsclves; all they have to do is lo bow their shoulders should-ers to receive the new burden which the grafters heap upon them. This raise in the county tax rate amounts this year to upwards of .$fiS,000. So that, while making unfounded, malicious, malic-ious, and utterly false charges against the American city administration, the church Republican convention assumed ihe responsibility in behalf of the church Republican party for the county graft, and for the increase in the couri-iy couri-iy taxes which this graft makes necessary nec-essary in order to square the county books. f Asyi confession of sinning against the. taxpayers and against the public, this assumption of responsibility for county graft and robbery is the most conspicuous declaration of the Republican Repub-lican city convention, while its attempted at-tempted assault upon the Amcrica'n 'ad- ministration of this city is utterly futile fu-tile and vain. |