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Show cf th- II::- : I i 1 ir;' - t I i.i th? City Cc : AA c! C ' tl:y : : - . 1 in ivory i: u? t! 1 -t c. If-, 1 . .-.1 .rti rn ctly it was th? II::;.hI th.:t A : :!y i. th-.t fcr-cr "L'rycr :i:rri3 wai ;: ' z: t c. . tent and alirjcth-r th? 1 "t ! layer f ' city ev. r h:: h Ind.ed theforr.:.r !faycr rt to .1 hi: I cf fetich with th? Ilcrald, md it rev' to I f.:. hicn with our contemporary to try to antici-l antici-l v w hat the Mayer's next vagary would he and to ' ' : i it in advance. It swallowed the Eteal cf . : Th Ai Lijht and Railway company without a and, put in legal form, it might, be said ii t "i;r CI in hand paid,-and for -other-valuable ( '. I rr.tiuns, the party of the second part (being th? Herald), hereby grants to the Mayor and the im--rtal eight all its right, title, interest and good -. ill in the people of Salt Lake, to the said Mayor t:,d his uncertain ideas forever." It inveighed strongly against putting any s trings on the former Mayor, and .was indignant when other people, interested In the welfare of the 'city, insisted that before so gigantic a work as the I building of . that conduit should be undertaken, the 1 cute and the material decided upon, the form and : ; ccpe of the conduit should be submitted to a committee com-mittee of gentlemen, part of them ,alert; business r :cn, and at least -one accomplished engineer, for I rpproval, and further, that before any steps toward ; building the conduit should be taken, the titles to 1 the water that it was hoped would be diverted through the conduit should . be . settled, leaving . a f clear field. .. ' .i 'i-':1 ' i I To all this the Herald either kept silence or gave J Its disapproval and, with all the enthusiasm ot the ; NT ews, endorsed the beginning of that conduit before ' any real - preparations had been - made, - and - all (through the campaign daily warned the people that j if they wanted more water next year there, was no j possible way to secure it except to' re-elect Mayor I Morris. ' ''.'.'''''"''; . Its hindsight seems to be very much better than jits foresight. It seems now-to be actually afraid l that out of the almost .inextricable confusion in 1 iwhich the former Mayor and his immortal eight left the water problem, order" will be brought "and the w ater obtained. . It knows no better. way now to defeat de-feat that, purpose than to try to get up what. Lem , w ould call an "unc.onsettleable" clasn in the CounI Coun-I Its arrows are all aimed nowadays at Mr. Davis, i Jir. Davis is a hold-over Republican Councilman. All : through the squirming and stealing of last summer, 1 the buying of the fake water right from the canal i company, the hurry to start the conduit before titles -j :were obtained for waterthrbugh all the boyish and ! knavish efforts made by the preceding Council, Mr. . Davis worked on the dead square. He obtained the ( right to be called. an honest man. . Until he- does i Bomething that is manifestly dishonest he ought to j hold his title, and from what we know of the men making up that ; Council, they will fbe glad every j morning to read the opinion of the. Herald, so, if k'they are in doubt, they will know which way to turn I being sure that by deriding the advice of the Herald they will not go wrong, because the Herald is nothing noth-ing unless it is partisan, and it has "given proof . enough in, the past to convince a good many people , who have watched its course plosely, that it would be willing to see the whole plan for adding to the . water supply of this, city smashed, if thereby.' it thought that ancient, mouldy organization, called Ij the Democratic party, could be benefited to the existent ex-istent of seven votes. --.-'-. - . : . |