Show VOTERS IT IS UP TO YOU A year ear ago last January the American party took charge of the government of this city That c the city affairs at the time were in a deplorable state slate there is not the slightest doubt The The dens were running wide ide open It was easy for half grown boys t td find a a gambling house in either direction in three minutes' minutes walk from Main fain street The town was filled with thugs over whom the police seemed have bave no control The administration tion of Mr l Mortis Morris had raised the ta taxes es spent all the money and had left due and unpaid more than The books of the city were in such a state that it required months of expert work to unravel them What was accomplished by the money spent 1 Mr rr Moms no Morris no friend of Mr 1 Morris has Morris has ever attempted attempted attempted at at- tempted to explain and no human eyesight has as asyet asyet yet been able to discover But over that record the News is satisfied and the Herald is enthusiastic But now the Herald is in mourning at what has been done the News is so to speak in sackcloth and ashes that ashes that News that was an accessory before or after the fact of every crime committed b by r the city officials for half a century while century while the Smoot organ organ- it is enough to say th it is carrying out the contract contract contract con con- tract on which it was founded And And what did the American party part promise 1 What has it done 1 First it promised an honest S ment How it has carried that out is clear when every er r officer of it courts an investigation of his work It promised to close public gambling establishments establish establish- ments It has kept ept its word to the letter It promised promised promised prom prom- to close the dives where thugs congregated by bya day a r from which they issued forth by night j where the youth of the cit city was contaminated and where vice was flaunted in the faces of passers by How p well the promise has hns been kept can be bc seen in the fact that the revenues re from such places to the cit city have fallen off oft It promised th that t it would go on so far as the resources of the city would permit to improve the cit city improve city improve its streets its walks wall its water system tem teal to make it advance to the utmost Has it not kept its word 7 Is not the News 1 crying out that too much of the money of the city is being paid out to working men 1 Has JIas not the efficiency of the water system outside of the conduit been doubled for the theus use us use of citizens and for protection against fire 7 And Andare Andare are ire not the improvements visible isible in every ery part of the city Be Beyond ond all that it promised to make this a real 1 American cit city to run it on the square quale to make it ita a city where men would be glad lad to make homes and to join in the work of building o it up What has been the response 7 The city's realty has jumped in value by leaps and bounds More new homes are being being being be be- ing erected than in s seven ven ious previous years the population population population lation has increased so mule that that children children chil chil- dren Oren have been added to the school rolls and business business business busi busi- ness in every department of trade has increased I quite 25 per cent And this thi has been accomplished 1 in two twenty months though the first four months of the working sea seaon season on of this year rear were lost through legisla legislation ion which the enemies of progress pushed through the legislature b by r a sneak last spring to cripple the present administration The election will come in four da days Which ticket will the man choose who desires to to see Salt Lake City continue to toy advance Y Neither Mr Mor Mor- Morris ris risk nor his friends pretend that if given another term he could t improve on his first That Dr Plummer could do no nOl better is clear lear from the fact that if elected and anxious to make an honorable record he would find within a month that so far as any and progress would be concerned the active mayor would bethe be bethe bethe the terrible Swede who has stol stolidly Uy y sat in the path of all legitimate advancement for fourteen years It is up to you ou voters which will you youa OU choose f a i Which hick do you rou like the better the progress of the past two years or the stolid apathy which ruled here for lor fifty y ears tears 1 You must have one or the other |