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Show CONDEMNED OUT OF HIS OWN MOUTH. i When the fight against the iniquitous franchise grab, attempted and partially accomplished by the Utah Light and Railway company, was being made last spring and summer, The Telegram counted as its friend and airy Councilman Hartenstein. The member from the Fourth ward was apparently UNCOMPROMISING IN HIS ZEAL I and determination to protect the interests of the people- By pen tnd tongue he pledged himself, in his representative capacity, against the consolidated franchise, asked by the quadruple trust. Others might falter, he declared, but he HARTENSTEIN would be found ! ? " faithful to the last ditch. Others might havtheir price (AND HE EVEN POINTED THE FINGER OF SUSPICION), but he HXR-TENSTEIN HXR-TENSTEIN would stand firm as a rock, ho matter what inducements induce-ments might be offered him to desert the cause of the people. t Behold the change! Hartenstein, ALONE OF ALL THE EIGHT i vrho h,ad stood as a stone wall against the 14,000,000 grab, voted with j the seven who had been in the minority. By his vote Hartenstein MORTGAGED THE PEOPLE OF SALT LAKE to the public utilities utili-ties trust for fifty yeark ' The Telegram makes no charges. Hartenstein is CONDEMNED - , OUT OF HIS OWN MOUTH. He is not a fit representative of the ' f ople and the voters of the Fourth ward should see to it next Tuesday Tues-day that he is retired from the City Council. |