Show democratic I 1 ica T for council oun cil pint first district CHARLES IL II HART for legislature first district JOSEPH MONSON AQUILLA for coliny superintendent of SAMUEL P logan in city ticket 1 for lor mayor GEORGE W F for or recorder JOSEPH QUINNEY THE LOGAN CITY PLATFORM the democratic party of logan in in colive convention a the following statement of facts anil and principles to tile the citizens voters and a nd taxpayers of this municipality 1 that public office is a public trust and public affairs should be administered upon tile the same game strict principles of integrity and economy that characterize charac teriza correct methods of private business 2 that the affairs of this growing grow city demand ability and skill for their sate safe and profitable profitable management a 0 3 that the present city adminis lacks these qualifications on and has measurably lost the confidence and respect of the people of logon logan n it has been partisan weak undignified and 4 it has committed c egregious re ious and childish blunders it has expended public revenues as a means of party benefit it lias has shown favoritism favori favorit irm rsm in the employment of laboring n men and has unfairly distributed public employment in an effort to and perpetuate itself in power it has 0 given offense to an enlightened public sentiment by a paltry and hesitating r management manag C ment of public problems it lias shown itself unworthy in respect of general eral ability to conduct the affairs of this city or adequately to represent its people in the eyes of tile world as the public officers of this abis educational centre of butali its officers have posed before the peo people pleas ns friends of the working men inen by paying in certain cases higher wages out ortho of tho public funds in fulfillment men t of pled pledges given for votes before election thin than the wages they ind paid out of their own funds 5 we demand economy and retrenchment trench ment in every every department of tho the public service we are in favor of giving labor to the unemployed without regard to politics or religion 12 paying n a fair days wages ages for a fair days labor and in making aking 0 public improvements as far and as fast as the cites revenues will ill permit without increasing in the taxes of the people we condemn the republican method of attempting 0 to bribe tax bavers pavers out of their own tax money by a promise of bublic employment at unusual wages ages 0 in return for votes 6 We Wed demand ernand honesty and abilia ability v as the first qualifications for public pu bl ac office and we condemn the republican practice of purchasing votes by the promise of office 7 the city police has been beela unnecessarily expensive and woefully inear inefficient lacking in force arid and in the ferfort performance biance of public duty vice and petty lawlessness have hav a not been properly repressed 8 we are in favor of an improved fire department fully able to protect the property of the taxpayers of the city and kludge ourselves to the support of such euch an organization 9 tho the present administration has exhausted the public revenues and has reached the limit of the ho borrowing capacity of the city leaving to the next administration an empty treasury a heavily bo bonded it fled city mortgaged 0 revenues and an water system we favor the early completion of tile alie water system as fast as the revenues revenue of the city will permit without overburden overburdening inn g the people with taxes wo we denounce the efforts of any persons or party to sell or grant away to private individuals or corporations any control of the water system of the city 10 we ve congratulate our city on its numerous and excellent educational edu ca institutions the agricultural college the brigham young college the new jersey academy and our excellent public schools and we pledge ourselves to their maintenance and support we ave favor tha union of the university of utah with tho the agricultural college and the location of both in ill logan city for the encourage encouragement mert of these institutions wo we pledge ourselves to tho the firm repression of all fornis forms of immo immorally ralty and vice we invite the support and cooperation of all good citizens for the accomplishment of these ends |