Show TIME FOR VOTERS TO T THINK INH Election is but a few days awa away and voters ought t I to be thinking hard The American party has been in power powes power nearly two twenty-two months Its claims are that it has fulfilled fulfilled fulfilled ful ful- filled every obligation which it incurred when it assum assumed as- as sum d control that it has done more and better i work than any former administration that it has given n the lire cit city more progress than an y other that t it has checked more vice and maintained better order than l a any preceding administration and that because of its control the adv advance nce of the city in wealth in improvements and population has been phenomenal The fhe only attempted reply to this by br the opposition is a shriek in chorus of graft and extravagance That there is not the slightest b foundation for either is made plain by bj the fact that not one specific charge is ls made nothing but general denunciation without proof which is not criticism but cheap and arid coarse coars blackguardism The overdraft is pointed out as something new and terrible when in truth it has been a necessary custom for years jears and one which the the- county and state have resorted to in quite as gr great ratio as has the cit city It will also be noted that whatever er the expenditures expendi expendi- i tures lures amount to be beyond ond the usual salaries have been undertaken th for the improvement of the city and the theoney money oney has gone in payment for fOl labor or for needed neede water ter mains mains The he above is a truthful showing It cannot be successfully disputed It seems to us like a record of which the people of this city sh should uld be proud But But now the ie ragtag and bobtail remnants are tr trying ng to make such combinations as will cripple the I party and make make its its ts efforts for two years ears to come come And for this what is being promised d B By the Democrats such an administration as was that thal of Mayor ex-Mayor Morris orris Do the people want that Y The record shows that it was an administration of waste incompetency and fatal infirmity of purpose The Republicans clamor damor that they want an honest and and and- conservative administration but there is no guarantee of this in the shown busi business ess capacity pi pit of the men t the m men n who are doing the shouting through their p press press or on th the streets Then when we consider the c combines which have b been en made de in in the hope of defeating the Americans it is clear at a glance that if th their ir hopes could be realized th there re wo would ld be a deadlock in the council before a month monh for it must be remembered that in that case Mr Ir Fernstrom would be the master spirit and an he never has haB represented anything but stolid reactionary obstruction unless something which the I f hi high h Pt priests t of f the th-e Mormon church wanted was being P pressed and then the Scandinavian log tog at once be bey became came a firebrand That lu t brings brings' us up to It the the most vital questions of the the campaign As Ai parties are aligned the opposition to the AIl American ric party is helpless to accomplish any any- r lh thing thine l g except that ecclesiastical power po puts pals forth tin tIll superstitious church control which it holds upon great majority majority- of the Mormon people If that is isone done one whatever cr advantage mn may he be gained through it that advantage will brill be claimed h by the church hurch and Mr 11 Fernstrom will ill always be on hand to lo press it That means that the eit city government go w will ll slump back under that same rule rul which held the e city ty in a state of coma for half a century Is an nn enterprising enterprising enterprising enter enter- citizen Gentile or 01 Mormon lormon any cit izen citizen who wants the best for or the pity rity it who does docs not feel a dreary chill when he lie contemplates a n misfortune of f that kin kind hind 1 A death to improvements a n paralysis to labor and business a n slave rule rulo over what ought to be kept a free progressive American city rity 1 II |