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Show I REPUBLICAN H For President REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET Hi William Howard Taft. For County Commissioner (Four- For Vice President T , Yc"r Term) James Schoolcraft Sherman. r John C Mackay, Granger. J J I'or County Commissioner (lwo-ycar 1 Term) FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS Walter J. Burton, Forest Dale. Thomas Sevy, Garfield County. 'T Co"PCI u T , Hi t r u iu i ,,. . r, . Margaret Zane Witcher, Salt Lake. J Lafayette Holbrook, Utah County. 6 For Sheriff Henry Cohn, Salt Lake County. Joseph C. Sharp, Salt Lake. HJ P-, For Attorney Hi REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET J?.b p- Lyn gait Lake. I - For County Recorder. M or Governor Fred J. A. Jaques, Salt Lake. J William Spry, Salt Lake County. For County Auditor HJ For Justice of the Supreme Court Frank Heginbotham, Salt Lake. HJ W. M. McCarty, Sevier County. For County Assessor HJ For Representative in Congress Amos S. Gabbott, Farmers' Ward. HJ Joseph Howell, Cache County. For County Treasurer HJj For Secretary of State John A. Groesbeck, Salt Lake. HJ C. S. Tingey, Juab County. For County Surveyor HJ For State Treasurer Joseph B. Swenson, Salt Lake. David Mattson, Weber County. , , v? State Senators For State Auditor c Charles E. Marks, Salt Lake; S. J. Jesse D. Jewkes, Emery County. to.okey'e ,?uTga,r House; Carl A' For Attorney General Badger, Salt Lake. A. R. Barnes. Salt Lake County. Wnh TVlTw. w,. For Superintendent of Public Insfruc 7 UaTBrlS a n m , o" . n i ' CleBe. SaU Lake: T- L- Holman, A- c- Nelson, Sanpete County. Bingham; J. M. Holt, South Jordan; HJ , e. C. Ashton, Salt Lake; E. J. Eard- REPUBLICAN JUDICIAL TICKET Le alf LaHf-,iPUghi,A;-McM o11?' Hi T , m . Salt Lake; William McMillan, Salt J For Judge Third Judicial District Lake; Claude Y. Russell. Salt Lake. HJ Hon. Charles W. Morse. REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET. HJ Hon. George G. Armstrong. For Judges H Hon. Morris L. Ritchie. J- J- Whitaker, J. M. Bowman. Hon. Thomas D. Lewis. For Justice of the Peace Hi r- r- a. Stanley A. Hanks. J For District Attorney For Constable HJ Frederick C. Loofbourow. Peter Hansen. H With the completion of the canvass by the Republican county H committee it becomes an assured fact that the American party has H not retained the strength shown in the city election of last year. H The canvass shows a greater number of doubtful voters than was H anticipated by the campaign managers, and this showing is con- ftrucd by Chairman Eldredgc to mean that there has been a falling H away of American party strength. H Last year when the canvass was made by the city committee, H voters showed no hesitancy in declaring their politics. If the' were H Americans they said so, and if they were Republicans or Democrats H they said so, and the result was that the canvass books showed a smaller percentage of doubtful voters than this year's canvass shows. This being the fact, or, rather the effect, in order to make a HJ conservative and at the same time reasonable forecast of the out- m come of the November election, we must study the cause. The HJ cause in this particular instance is that the issues in the present H campaign are entirely different from those which marked the city HJ campaign in 1907. H It will be remembered that the American party in the first two HJ years of its administration of city affairs not only spent all of the available funds for improvements, but created great overdrafts and went far into the hole in building campaign capital for itself in order that it might flaunt before the people an attractive cry. I . Newcomers, particularly, overlooked the unbusinesslike, phase of J the administration, forgot the profligacy of the Kcarns administration and helped support the Keams ticket in the city election. There were no national issues at stake, there was no impending calamity through the election of a Democratic president, but merely a num-i num-i ber of attracttve local issues which were strongly appealing to the HU newer residents of Salt Lake. These newcomers overlooked tlie scandals that marked the rule of every department of city govcrn-HJ.i govcrn-HJ.i mcnt, and real estate men and a great many property owners who l saw an opportunity to enhance the value of their property by mak- i mg of improvements, joined with the American party and helped swell the abnormal majority. If J: Now, the time for improvements in Salt Lake had never been to ripe as during the last two or three years. The city was wealthy in resources and production, the nation was passing through an era of industrial wealth, property values were increasing, Salt Lake was making itself heard in the world of commerce and industry and Unappealing Un-appealing strength of Utah as a field for investment had drawn thousands thou-sands of people from the over-crowded East who came here to make , a living where opportunities were greater than they had at home. The nation itself was enjoying fulsome prosperity and the effect of it was felt in Salt Lake City. Salt Lake was not the only city in Utah which shared in the profits that followed in the wake of this prosperity wave, for other cities in the State, other sections of the State were profiting by the influx of capital and citizenship. So, it is fair to say that Salt Lake City was ripe for the improvements that were made, and it is a certainty that any administration of city affairs af-fairs would have seen the advantage of paving streets, laying side- walks, digging sewers and extending water mains, just as quickly V as the American party, which was then in control. It must be remembered re-membered that the great water works system as shown in the Big Cottonwood conduit was inaugurated under the previous administra- I tion. ' J The Republican party is the living example of progress, advancement advance-ment and improvement. Under the Republican administration roads have been built in the county, improvements have been pursued Judiciously, economically but at the same time in accordance with the available funds at hand. Unlike the American administration in the city, the county officers conducted these improvements in a sane and orderly manner, and while they were doing it they paid off a part of the indebtedness of the county. This is decidedly in contrast with the American city administration, which, at the cud of less than three years of misrule, bonded the city for an additional amount, while in the city depository there lay bales of unpaid war-tants war-tants which made the overdraft aggregate more than one-half of the entire amount of the bond issue. Then the city's credit was shattered shat-tered and in order to get further credit the city treasurer had to appeal ap-peal to the bank for more time in which to meet obligations. He also gave them a number of fat checks to cover interest payments on these overdrafts. While one branch of the city administration was industriously t reating overdrafts, it was at the same time helping all branches of the city government to incubate scandals which have recked from every department. Men who were repudiated at the city election in 1907 became stalwart members of the inner circle later and dictated '.he policy of the administration. Dishonesty in the street department depart-ment followed the screaming scandal in the police department; then came the repudiation of the administration of the fire department. Many appointees who had the handling of cash became infected with the graft bacilli and sooner or later were dropped from the pay roll because of the sheer demand of public opinion for a change. On the whole, the American party in Salt Lake City has been a failure. . - - The issues in the present campaign are entirely different from those of 1907, although the public must not lose sight of the faci that the party which has made a miserable failure of one administration adminis-tration should not be privileged to make a similar failure of another. The issues in this campaign arc this: First. Shall the American party be allowed to extend this prop aganda of graft and corruption to the more important and more vital otliccs of the county government? Second. Shall the citizens of Salt Lake county permit the American party acquire power and opportunity to open the doors oi the penitentiary or send into the foreign countries of this continent a class of people who are disliked by the Kcarns crowd on account of their religious belief? m. Third. Shall the American party inner circle befog the para-mount para-mount national issues with a petty warfare here at home? fourth. Shall the personal -ambitions of Tom Kcarns and his coterie of political buccaneers be allowed the defeat of the great Kcpubhcan party in the nation in order to satisfy a few pcisonal olticcscekcrs and to prolong the unholy and unrighteous strife in Utah? Fifth. Shall the Republicans in the American party tolerate the prearranged scheme of the Kcarns inner circle by throwing the full strength of the American party for Bryan in order that they may grind the axes which they have had against the political crindsiouc ncrc for three or four y- ,-? Sixth. Shall the American party be permitted to get one more step in the direction of the annihilation of the Republican party rt-hicn the Reams leaders have sworn to ruin to satisfy a crowd of ' political manhandlers whose party is one b. m of disappointment? 1 here arc other issues, but these arc ii portant. and arc designated desig-nated merely as a few of those which arc paramount in this cain- (Contlnucd on Pago 13) REPUBLICAN (Continued from Pago 8.) i paign. The helplessness and hopelessness of Democracy in Salt Lake county, and in the State for that matter, have long since been established. The Democratic party is the weakest party in Salt Lake county, and to defeat the hellish aims of the American party, a vote for the Republican ticket is the only way to accomplish it. Let it be further understood that no Republican, no matter what his local beliefs or views may be, may vote for W. H. Taft for President Pres-ident on the Republican ticket, and the chances arc that that will be the only way that Taft may be voted for. No such hybrid ticket as this which 'springs from the evil mind of the inner circle will be tolerated tol-erated in the coming election. , n hbHhBmJIHBBH Madame Rappold, the QueemV Soprano V"ccra' for the Orpheus Club on Monday Night. |
