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Show QIGIIER GIVES STiTELIOT OP , PRIIH'LES Candidate for Mayor Says He Did Not Seek -Place "I did not wk itainlfiattAfi. I wu urtrf'd tt bteoma a randldata by lrsja number of fUlt Lak rltl-UM," rltl-UM," Joaaph E. Gallr-. Afnarj-ca Afnarj-ca party candidate for mayor In tha . open In f city ltlna. aatd tod-y In hta first official at at erne nt of th cam ra Ian. "Naturally, I fHt honorad. aim new that I am Into It I Intend to carry through, nvr loilnaj aitht of tna Ii(h-mlnt1d prtacTplai to which I am plada-ad In placing Bay nam fcafor th puhlle. "alt Lak fjtiy ha a dtlny to fulfill. T community. rtrtnr th heart of a grmmt Intarmountaln empire with no city of appreciable tz for mors than TOO mile In any " tfiractlon, cannot help hut btfomt a jrraat metro poll through which the wealth of thla region will pour out I th world. Put thl development intv be retarded by coarlltlona whteb, If alarm ln(r at home, appear a a eerteu menae to th Indus trial and financial mind of distant ttes who would otherwise furnish , ... the aklU aal tha mean for Immediate Imme-diate exploitation af our unlimited rouroa. laoi'iaO cTBit cai'Rtm. -As I see It, there ar twa thlnrs which positively must b accomplished accom-plished before we ca no forward as w should. W must remove every vest la af ecclesiastical in- terferene with our administration of public affair and return to the absolute we vera nee of church and state, which la an essential principle prin-ciple on which our nation and tr ' state ar founded. Not doing this results In th cltlsens of our stater - state looking npon us wun s- since Its pretended establishment la 1I0? FAITH IIHOKBlVf "' Tbe board of city commissioners commission-ers has broken faith with the people, peo-ple, violated th implied contract and apent the money In such manner man-ner and through such channels as make Its final destination hard to trace. Only a pittance of thla fund has gone to retire bonds and for the balance of the ancient Issues bearing bear-ing 4 per cent, our present administration admin-istration ha reissued at a considerably consid-erably higher Interest rate further bonds to patch up their wastsan of the sinking fund. thereby pyramtd- Inar th nhlleatloiia wa will hav to meet within a very few years. "I have pledged myaelf to the correction cor-rection of these two major abuses and to effect that correction without with-out malice, enmity or hatred toward any man yr any group or men. looking only to the welfare and progress of our city. I will not carry Into public office any antag-ontsma antag-ontsma of my personal or business life and will not know nor car whether a oitlaen I Mormon, Catholic, Cath-olic, Oentlle. union or nonunion, but will treat th mayoralty aa th aa-cred aa-cred trust of all th people." pirmrt. "Equally essential Is th necessity for economy In government. During Dur-ing the past few years the tax rate f this city has nearly doubled. A considerable portion of this Isvy ' has been ostensibly to provide a I einktn fund for th retirement of bond Issued in the first years of this century. "Nearly one -third ef on mtNion dollar I needed annually to take t the bonded debt of this cjty and such an amount ha been collected. But what ha become of thl fund |