Show 1 FALSE ALSE CHARGES SENSELESS WHINES The press of the opposition to the American I party in this city is engaged in wholesale denunciation tion of the party now in pow power r and in that denunciation denunciation elation there is no effort made to tell the truth and it always winds up in a whine to give those out of power pow- pow 1 er cr a chance The American party has nothing to conT conr con con- T r r ceaL When Then it had its birth it declared its purpose i I which was to Americanize Utah and put it in accord with its sister r states and that included progress 1 f. f wherever it could obtain power It challenges all aU who are interested to examine its work and judge i I for themselves The physical work is visible in all directions on 1 almost ever every r street of the city cit its books are open I for every one interested to examine Under the I progress which it inaugurated willing hearts an and I. I hands have come to join in the work until in twenty L 1 months the population has increased quite 25 per percent F cent We have faith to believe th that t this work is appreciated by this people and that the most bigoted in their hearts admit that it amounts to a mation Contrasted with Contrasted with ablY aay former twenty months of the city's history the showing is most wonderful And I the appeal of the party part r is for all men to toI I judge by the present and an any former period and andI I then to de decide ide whether the they want this to continue or want the city to fall back into the old rut J It is not only r in the material progress but there is much more The cit city which was in the last ad ad- J I ministration a rendezvous for thugs is as safe now as L any cit city on the continent notwithstanding that it is f but a few hours' hours ride from half a dozen mining camps where the lack of the refining influence of I women makes man many men reckless and notwithstanding ing that the police force is smaller than in an any r city of its size in the country 1 Aside from violence under the former administration administration adminis adminis- all manner of vice was as unrestrained It was vas easy for boys bors to find open gambling houses houss in five minutes' minutes walk and the other vices common to poor humanity were flaunted in the faces of people I on every corner I The American party has faith to believe that all allI I honest men and women Gentiles and Mormons alike I note the changes that have been wrought and do not want t to see a return to what was here when the party assumed 1 power I As to the appeal of the opposition to be trusted j I once more to have one more chance there is this to say The American party was born of the conviction J that it would be a crime Clime to wait any longer for reforms reforms re reo re- re forms which under the old regime could not be No NoI I I party can institute reforms or inaugurate progress unless those in in control want vant the reforms and the pro- pro gress Those who would control were either the old parties given power are willing that the vices go Unheeded unneeded un un- heeded needed for the sake of the revenue that follows At AtI 1 I stated intervals interval they can roll their hypocritical eyes ees t to heaven and tell how pure nure the city 0 was when the they 0 had control and thus carry to strangers the impression impression impression sion that the change is due to un unscrupulous Gentiles which though a double falsehood serves their puri pur- pur i poses As to progress the they want vant none save under Mormon Mormon Mor- Mor mon management and the people watched their ways I for fot half a century until fully satisfied of their want of capacity and want of desire to make this a growing growing growing grow- grow ing glorious city Worse still with one or two exceptions their administrations administrations administrations ad ad- ministrations term after term were essentially dis dis- dis honest They managed to absorb all the revenues all except in special funds went in salaries and with witha a stolid indifference to the needs comforts and health of the people pursued their wa way finding a use for all the revenues and doing nothing for the city citi I Think of it Not a street sprinkled not a street improved improved im- im J proved not a rod of pavement or sidewalk paved not one decent schoolhouse no effective fire department department department depart depart- ment the police department made up in great part of thugs unequal taxation defalcations in office always always always al- al ways condoned priestly control of mayor and coun coun- j I oil cil and every effort at progress strangled 11 Certainly the people of this city do not want a reI return re- re I j turn to that rule and they will not have it If they i elect either of the opposition tickets to the American i party the they will in effect declare that the they want the j I old rule resumed and that would be an impeachment I of their intelligence I |