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Show I men Don't Like it. Since Truth gave expression a week ago to the idea of the decent citizens of Salt Lake City getting together regardless of political affiliations and putting a nonpartisian ticket in the field at the next municipal election as a means of rescuing the municipality munici-pality from the grip of the scoundrels scound-rels and boodlers, the daily papers have been devoting a great deal ot attention to the subject. The idea . of a fusion ticket as a means of cleaning clean-ing out the Augean stables is not by any means new. It has been resorted re-sorted to many times in all the large cities of the country when the governments gov-ernments of those cities have become corrupt like that of Salt Lake. From the present gang that holds sway no improvtement can be expected. They are there simply for what there is in it, for what they can get legitimately legiti-mately and all tliley can steal and their determination is to make the most ot their opportunities. Eighteen months of their rule has not only dissipated the city's funds, but has run the city in debt not only to the extreme lawful limit but far beyond it. Graft, open and barefaced, with the most marvelous mar-velous incompetence are the leading characteristics of nearly every department.' de-partment.' Taxes were raised this year to the highes point the law permits. per-mits. The legal limit was the only thing that prevented the raise being much larger. It will be years, even with a. the most economical administration, before the city recovers from the effects ef-fects of the extravagance, waste and dishonesty of the Amerikcarns party. If this party should be reelected next November and given two more years of office it would be most disastcr-ous disastcr-ous for the city and the tax payers. The people can't afford to take any risks and therefore should form a fast combination to defeat them. Three tickets in the field would be too risky a proposition. The only sure way is for the democrats and rfy republicans to get together name a ticket of honest, capable men and make an equitable division of the offices. of-fices. The Amerikearns' organs of course don't like the idea of a fusion. It means disaster to the grafters. Just on what logical ground the Tribune can object to a fusion is not clear. It's own party is composed of nondescripts non-descripts of all kinds. Probably such a hetrogenus mass was never gotten together before. All are welcomed if they will only vote the ticket. Fusion is the only sure and sensible way of turning the rascals out. The Amerikcarns leaders have become be-come a pack of common scolds. Judge Goodwin in his address before be-fore an aggregation which calls it-.self it-.self thc "American" club a few evening's ago voiced pretty well the feelings of the party. He scolded President Roosevelt, the United States Senate, Gentiles who won't bend the knee to the Amerikearns party's boss, the Mormon church, two or three newspapers and almost everybody ev-erybody else. Back in Pennsylvania in years gone by they used to have what they called a M ducking stool," a mechanical device for dipping into cold water the town scolds, mostly old women, the historians state. The ducking stool was not then con sidcred anything more than a mild means of reproof or correction to be used on old women with long tongues. A ducking stool might be used right h re in Salt Lake with advantage ad-vantage on some of the "old women" who wear pantaloons. |