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Show O 3DFX tta: THE COMMKKCIAL. play throw it Now ) tlautl XUr it Thi - ! HAlii a - - MB Urn 1 atrl uiarh raIV a. J: i.troa. wbu fail lu M '.brtr i aa tfcaa r rim dai. ur 4 Mlfatur a. a- will raafe bj noeif 5 - ni'UL bait,s WtMMfMB i.i KOTU'E: fw nioaoektfk p. av uSeeuf Te ( omhkimul at arenu.. wM be rliwl. and ar. i can ax rut, for tiie uwvttua of ava-- t au1 i Wa.ii-iatonrtiMarau at tbe wliturial o4V. areaaa. op .tain. rt 4aar. :". U. J, tme. PKIDA1 -- a TELEPHONES: ( Sr. tfasy are pCTMttod to nave, and the of Mr Adams to that end will be. 00 JOT! PRIESTHOOD Kdltriai MBcr. S.V ..JirrT 14 4Borr am row tckxer. Win. H. Turner, reform mayur of stopped at The Commercial offloe last evening to five the editor a piece of hi mind for what was said in the paper yesterday about the policy of masterly inactivity of the present reform mayor and councilinen. With a good deal of warmth and pretty strong language he said he did not care for what truth might be told but he did object to the d d lies the article contained. Those lies were, he said, the statement that he is drawing 100 a month as chairman of the Hoard of Education, when in fact lis i drawing but 9:25 a month. This he gets by virtue of his office as mayor. Now this paper, taking Mr. Turner's word for it, it heing too late to verify his information when received, will concede that he draws a instead of tJ,4U. We were informed that lie drew StKXi instead of Shm a year. If this is an error he is welcome to the correction, as it is the purpose of this paper to give eiact figures. But fc!,lti0 is a big salary these times and we'd like to know, the taxpayers would like to know and have aright to know, whether the services of Mr. Turner are worth the money or not. He claims he puU in a good ileal of time. Possibly. Hut men who do business they are not adapted to have to put in much time and can not render much service of value either. Mr. Turner argues that he has been a high salaried man in the machine business. Probably true, but that is no evidence at all that he is earning HajSOO as mayor. Mr. Turner speut twenty years learning the machine busi ness and tins only had six months experience as mayor. He is a mere apprentice. The other "lie" that disturbed Mr. Turner's equanimity was the statement that when his salary was raised to f 1,800 by the council that he took the Hoor and made a speech in which he "almost beffged" to have his pay advanced. Well, Mr. Turner did call a member to the chair. He did take the floor. He did speak at considerable length. What for ? To oppose the advance of salary ? Not at all. He favored. He plainly Btated that he could not afford to the duties of the office, which he said he had discovered to be much more numerous and annoying than he had expected, for $500. Mr. Turner admitted to us that the purpose of his speech was to insist that the duties required demanded more money than had been paid and that he could not give them more than incidental attention for that sum. In short, Mr. Turner made quite a pressure for more salary, as being necessary for the public interests of the city and his own interests too, and his talk was so understood. He therefore did do, in effect, what we said he did, and there is no use in splitting hairs about the way of telling it. He favored the advance. His speech was in favor of it. And now he takes the money. Mr. Turner was reminded that he and several of the present council made their campaign as "reform" candidates. They were going to greatly improve on the old administration in economy, in nearly If Mr. Turner did not everything. promise this for himself the fellows who talked for him did so in a very loud voice. They got votes of people on that ground without a doubt. For they led many to believe that there was something wrong in the liberal administration, something extravagant, that the city was run by a "ring." And Mr. Turner was reminded that he and the council owe it to the city to keep those campaign promises as a matter of good faith to the men who elected them and that they should now back up Ogden's interests by works of enterprise and progress. And that it was not keeping faith with the people to go and raise their salaries the first thing as a matter of "reform" and "economy." Mr. Turner's answer to this was remarkable. He said that those campaign promises were "just simply political lies." Of course they had to have that kind of stuff to make a campaign, or woras to Otf-de- pei-for- soms-corrup- t, n. AUGl'ST 14th UNTIL earns Com Al'tiUT 21it. FOR Mr-an- CJut B. I of the Adam and Bank. tah National tile 11 1ES E Turner that tb MOEHOS JOY. gouaraliy are out satisfied with the Writ of Aitarkneat Levied ao batog render i by Uus "re Him ihr .miurmal" form" adaaoiatratKjo and never will be For a Triie. uatil it nrotacU to I city's ialawsts as it agreed it would in the campaign and as Between 5 and 6 o'clock last evening j enterprising man knows it should Deputy Marshal Bowman and St. John be done. came to Tax Connra ui. office with a writ of attachment sworn out by L B AS TO TAXES. Aoama, cashier of the Utah Bank, and pro needed to attm The present "reform" city administra- stock and chattels of The Commercial tion will collect over $16,000 in Uses company for a mere trifle of Publishing -from Ogdec property owners lbs eiact $300 or $300. amount is not yet determined as ws Owing to the rumors current in Mor understand il There m no offense in mon circles recently since The Commem beassessing that sum on city property, has been making such a stubborn cause it takes money to runj a growing cial for the Gentiles of Ogden this tight city of 3J.OU0 people. Il needs all that action of Mr. Adams is a very stravge amount. coincidence and will no doubt delight li j t there i an offense in collecting the priesthood. such an amount and making a $100,000 It is shrewdly surmised that Charlie loan too and doing the city no good with Richards has not felt a cordial ympathy it Public funds can be spent for ob- with the cashier of the Utah National that produce valuable re- Bank of late for nothing. jects sults, which can be pointed to as an The bitterness of the late Mormon evidence why property is made more warfare upon The Commercial made it valuable in all parts of the city, by reasonable to expect anything to reason of su :h expenditures. This year very if possible, the Gentiles of Ogdeprive, shove all others for a long time, prompt den of a journalistic representative but and timely action by the council would it was not expected that priesthood cun bare had great value for the city's intercould so cleverly gratify ita ests. But that advantage has all been ning lost by the costly delay and lack of adTIIBOI OH A (.ENTILE SOIKCC ministrative ability of the "reform" It is also significant that this "unkind- branch of the city government. est cut of all" should be made in the The liberal council 6pent about absence from town of Mr.Theo. Robison 940,000 the tirst year and a little over of the Citizens' Bank of Ogden who is a $10,000 the second year of its rule. And prominent official of The Commercial almost every street in the city, river corporation. Moreover it is to be regretcrossing, walk, park, or patch of public ted that tho Mormen desire to silence ground shows the proof of the wise use this representative of the Gentiles of of that money. The amount of work Ogden should be so far gratified, when done out of that sum of money was imthis paper has just entered upon an era mense. We do not believe that any city of unprecedented presperity and recovin the United States can point to ered much of the ground lost by a prior greater results from an equal exiiendi-ture- . half way management which favored Besides all those permanent bet- the Mormons by giving the Gentiles only terments the city departments were all a support and which reorganized and put ou a more modern ALSO LEFT AS A BOUVEXIR and satisfactory footing. of its former existence, the identical The liberal administration possessed debt that has been used through Mr. two qualities very much needed in the Adams to gratify the feelings of C. C. present "reform" managers : It knew Richards and the priesthood. In con what should be done and was not afraid nection, too, with the late Mormon boyto do it. The splendid work of 1880 and cott of The Commerc ial, the Gentiles of 1890 is now being appreciated by comOgden will readily put this and that toparison with the present dilatory and gether and so be able to judge of the nerveless mismanagement. subtle cunning of the Mormon power Ogden knows what an able public ser- which will not tolerate the existence of vice is and It asks more of it. And men a journal that fearlessly defends the who mnde such loud and long pretenses Gentiles, if their resources of ir'igue of being so much wiser and better than or tithing money can put it down, and " the liberals, and that they would their pleasure even the record of 1880 and 1800, WILL KNOW NO LIMITS are now expected to fulfill some of their when they find that Mr. Adams, cashier of the Utah National Bank, has done so pledges. Not to do so will most decisively re- much to meet their approval. act upon them. Ogden people are not We apprehend, however, that the of the opinion that solemn election Gentiles of Ogden are not yet ready to have pledges are just "political lies." practice. Telsaoao No Tttl 273. A. Larson A Co, merchant tailors. vou a neat fittuur nair of for $5 and npwarda. 2t4t Wash J. will avecue. ea Positively Xot a Mid-Summ- Longer. We will offer our beautiful line of hanging lamps at ALJLAL (UbI. I his is a genuine honest offer and is made to clear a space for our Fall Stock. CHANCE A Come right away and take it. Long evenings are fast drawing on us. Dor Motto: Duality and Price er Clearance Sale! STILL CONTINUES. SILKS. 500 Yards Striped Wash SilksRegular price $1.20, now - 85c Black Faille Silks, very good Worth $1.00. revalue. duced to 70c per yard. Black Grosgrain Silks, regular price $1 00, now 73c. Grosgrain Black Silks, regular price $1.25, reduced 24-inc- Mint.!- - IF YOU WANT GRAND frifafltii M. THEFAIR Importers, Jobbers and Retailers, 2443 ad 2445 Washington Avenue, Ogden, Utah Ogden Paint, Oil and Glass Company, JOBBERS IN h to 90c Black Bengaline Silks, $1-85- regu-larpric- e now $1.45. , SHEET, ORNAMENTAL AND PLATE GLASS. Come early before the lines are broken and thus obtain first choice. Painters' and Artists' Supplies. S. J. BURT & BROS. Illuminating and Lubricating Oils. - " 141 orriiEs. 2440 WASHINGTON AVE.. OGDEN, The OideNt and Largest. R. G. DUN & CO., TheMercantileAgency. GEO. OSMOND. Manager Utah and Idaho. 119, South Main Stre t. Salt Lake City. General and the priesthood run the only paper iX Rocky Mountain Amber, 1 II THE 04IK 4.KK.VT 11111 SHELLHAS ONE WEEK! BUSTS "re-foim- Commkrcial man asked Mayor Turner whether the reform Mayor and councilmen are going to do anything for the city this year. "Yes, they are getting ready to make some important the Mayor. improvements," replied "What are they ? " was asked. "I won't tell you," answered the Mayor. The Mayor and council have kept this great secret for six months and it looks as though they will keep it six months more. The Mayor admitted a little later that he didn't know himself as the plans have not been agreed upon. wfcaeh Dr JLL Msyor in addition to his apecaaity has concluded to do a general half-hearte- I enaaaMoa-Ju- p lively of late to the utter auspair, eon and fary of the bosses of the Chnreh of J. C of L. D. 8. in Ogden nn THE RICHARDS FAMILY a afcmjawli 'ii Had the mayor and council commenced early in the spring and spent 950,000 to 9100,000 in public works a large portion of the mpney would have found its way to Ogden business men to relieve their credit acounts. It would have been like a loan to them to tide over a time when trade was shrinking and the banks extending no favors. It would have strengthened ail Ogden enincreased building, and terprises, stiffened the business tone of all lines of trade. Something could still be done in that way, but nothing to what could have been done four mouths earlier. gobble the plant of Uue throttle 0 thamfmaakip of Gen so in I'tah Co MMi ssr-Tt- THE WEULl. Ediima. la tiltun, Ou Year. CM The abuir rau tuu ua Jul) 1. 1L Ai: to Maf.UKat COMMERCIAL: FRIDAY. AI GFST H. .991. t&-- j Mr. Tuiw HtaiiM 2 perfectlj caa aastir Mr Turner tint la psopki do ifwrt lb t to Afid prjoiMWs U b fulfilled. carry them out adl ba looked upon by lb city gwcMraUv as a breach of fattbos the part fcdnor lor Tf Mil Claw (! it ooasMsxr D!LY In Keg or Bottle. BREWING - CO.. - II I I K Telephone 180, Do You Want a Bargain Wf. have the authority of Mayor Turner for it that the pledges of the reform party in the city campaign do not count, are of no force now, because they were simply a "lot of political lies." "Reform" political morals seen; to be cast on a low enough plane to make professional political bosses blush. HAEKESS AND LAP DUSTERS. The Largest and Best Selected Stock in the City. go at prices Lower than ever offered before. All mus CALL AND GET OUR PRICES. L. BECKER, Mgr. G. STAFFORD, MILLER & CO. w Room 2, No. 265. 25th Street, - UTAH. OGDEN, Opium Habit Cured. WM. DRIVER & SON, Wholesale and Retail DRUGGISTS 2453 Washington A eue, Perfumes, Soaps, Etc. in Ogden. CONRAD SCHNEUELSBERG, Formerly of Western Carriage Works (Men - FIRE! SMOKE! 0. E. SATAGE, & THE BAZAAR IS NOW OPEN. Formerly of 2350 Washington Carriage &il Washington given to Piles Ogden. Utah. We carry the Finest Line of Toilet Articles, SCHNEGELSBERG and all Private Diseases- Special attention SAVAGE, Works, W1B Sell All Goods at BIG DISCOUNTS. If You Want a Bargain, Call Early. THE BAZAAR, SATURDAY, Cor. 24th AGrnt.Ave. August 8th Avenno.t Ann while we are on the subject of Turner's idea of political municipal reforms, we beg to inquire Manufacturers of Wagons, Carriages, Etc., pledges, promises, and declarations of what has become of that quarterly Wagons, Blacksmithing Etc- "reform," is that they are lies anyway, financial statement that was published and that no one is under obligations to under liberal rule, for information of HTT. D- - SWIFT. Carriage Painter, la onr shop. That theory seems to city taxpayers. carry them out. that effect. So Mr. ? SADDLES. A By the way, by what authority do the mayor and councilmen draw their increased salaries? What became of that injunction suit was it withdrawn, lost or won? Why this Bilence, the great quiet of the present? Was it coincident with the aspirations of certain democrats for office that the injunction suit of Mr. Evans and D. H. Peery Jr. was withdrawn, if it has been withdrawn? A heavily taxed public wants to know and is entitled to know these things and it will know. UTAH. Repairing WATER! FIRE! |