Show Wr r ft Lets Let's Keep to the Record TT is very fortunate that it is wholly unnecessary unnecessary IT f 1 sary to rely upon the opinions of any indi- indi group as asto to what issue was before the voters voters' of Salt Lake City when by a very small majority authority was given by ballot for the creation of the metropolitan water district The The record is plain and it is available to anyone anyone anyone any any- one one having the least doubt about the matter i First entry in the record is the metropolitan 5 water district act itself itsel By no stretch of l Imagination may desire read in its plain language language lan Ian age guage any inference that tha it was legislation to carry out the Deer creek project or any part of of it It provided the machinery for the city's pa participation in the Deer creek k project ct if the district directors should so elect but it left the decision solely to the directors Second entry in the record is the official ballot Printed on this was no mention of Deer creek reek It cannot be construed that the voters' voters decision to form a district was a mandate to go ahead with Deer creek Third e entry try in the record consists of the numerous statements and speeches by Mayor Marcus farcus Issued from his were formal and 1 informal statements advocating the formation c of the district and roundly voicing approval of thc the Deer beer cx creek ek pr project jed Printed ted propaganda paid for Lor out of city funds carried the same same propaganda The mayor carried on the campaign campaign cam carn- before civic bodies service clubs and else else- w where ere Later over his signature the mayor disclaimed lisel that Voting Toting for the district meant voting for Deer creek He told a luncheon gathering gathering gath gath- ering that Deer cre creek k might or dr might not be considered by the metropolitan politan water district d directors rectors He told voters that a vote for the district was not a vote for a bond issue or higher taxes He made it plain beyond doubt that the election was solely 9 on the issue of yes or no noon on a metropolitan water district t to do the things i provided ded for in the legislative act under the powers powers it conferred I j City Water Commissi Commissioner ner Keyser advocated the e metropolitan water district with all his vigor He often deferred to Deer creek as a avital avital avital vital new source of water of which the city stood tood In need Nowhere in the record can we r. r find quotations from him to the effect that a vote for the district was a vote for Deer creek and nd nowhere in the ther record ecord cord can we find him saying say say- ing as the mayor did that a vote for the district I I was was NOT OT T a a. vote for Deer c creek cj eek j Now Commissioner Keyser says says' a that thai the voters oters who voted yes for the district voted yes for Deer creek By what right or special p power r of divina divination ion d does es he assume to interpret what was in the voters' voters minds Only the voters l now know What C Commissioner Keyser says is a matter atter of opinion We are not dealing with f- f pinion opinion Lets Let's keep to the record d. d |