| Show ADMISSION AND UNBELIEF ON wednesday oct 15 the NEWS showed beyond the possibility of su successful c c ess ful dispo dispute ite that the liberal ap city council had in killing by vote the ordinance pr providing viding that public work should be done by contract awarded to the lowest bidder repudiated the plank of the platform of the party devoted to that subject that public work should be done in the way indicated by the assassinated sag ordinance was an election war cry the liberal campaigners asserting that any other method meant corruption ani and jobbery of which according to their logic the council now stands convicted although the corn is not aci in a whole but merely bamby pamby way by the chief liberal organ it is in a manner admitted as will be observed by the following quotation from its issue of october we think the complaints made by the mormon organs against the resolution of the council regarding work in the city is just we think they have a right to complain we think the council made a mistake we think on careful consideration they ought to retrace their steps one of our war ones cries last winter our chief esic one was that public work should be done by the lowest responsible bidders anti and that SalL Lake work should be done by baltake Salt Sal Lake take workingmen we do not think the city council has any right to do anything which looks like repudiation of that slogan we think the resolution was carried in a moment jentof of inadvertence and when the fu gentlemen ent lemen who supported it look at it m all its bearings they will be glad to reverse its work we are pleased to give our ordinarily unscrupulous credit for this exhibition of the unexpected tendency toward frankness manifested in the foregoing it seemed however to have been seized with a pang of remorse for having allowed itself to be impregnated with even a slight symptom of honesty this revulsion of sentiment is shown by a refusal to believe a fact that has been demonstrated st and which is beyond the reach of successful contradiction we quote further the news charges that one member of the council uses his place in the cancil Cun cIl to fu further arther his private business we do not believe the charge that was another campaign cry with us here is what the NEWS did do and say on the subject it quoted the th e following section 10 of article VI of amendments Amend menta to thi the charter of salt lake city no officer shall be directly or indirectly interested in any contract work or business of the city or the selling of any article the expense price or consideration of which is paid from the treasury or by an any assessment levied by any alay act or ordinance ordinance nor in I 1 in t the he purchase of any real estate or other property belonging to the corporation po ration or h shall be hold held for the taxes or assessments or by virtue of legal process at the suit of sail corporation mayor or other officer ol of the city the rhe NEWS followed the publication of thi the foregoing section of the law by this statement there is an alleged city council who occupies a seat in that body who never was elected to it and who is more or less a continuous breaker of the tore foregoing going clause he does a certain class of work for the city and occupying a seat in hat h at boby bo ay to which he is not legally entitled takes part in appropriating public funds to himself rhe fhe balance of the coun council cil are also thus either ignorant of the law or wilfully wilful lv guilty guilt v of breaking it our unbelieving refuses to believe this charge this ir IE a sad commentary upon the reliability of its own reports of the proceedings of the city council if it is open to conviction let its own columns be examined and it will there be found recorded that on sundry and divers occasions appropriations of public moneys have been made to one pembroke in ia payment for city work done don e by min him said pembroke occupies a seat in the city council to whit which h he has no legal right never havi having rag been elected five other liberal 1 1 are in the same situation in that regard the tribune can hardly take the ground that he is not a member of the council seeing that that paper after the february campaign was over described this alleged councilman as a rising young man which was correct he has risen several times before the public but has sat down again so to speak more suddenly than be got up we do not see why the liberal organ should so stubbornly refuse to believe that there is one alleged member of the council whose official al conduct is not square with the law in view of its former assertion that there were at least four bad men in that public body |
