| Show WORK INGMANS TICKET in response to a call made there was waa a mass meeting of workingmen gwen held in the federal court room on july 25 to consider the placing in the field of arr an independent ticket for the salt lake county election the meeting elected mr H button chairman and mr L M earl ear secretary the following was reported by a committee and adopted PLATFORM the independent party of salt like lake county in this their first convention assembled adopt the following declaration of principles which they hereby present to all true citizens of salt lake county and request them to support k it at the polls first As work working nam inen en we recognize the necessity of self protection and resolve ourselves into an organization iza tion with this as our primary object we have had able proofs that this thia course can only le be advanced by the organized effort of those who lived by their honest toil tail second that public office is a public trust that its functions are ifor foe the benefit of the public and not the private private prop property eity of the official to abic discharge arge p personal obligations by its distribution third that the workingman must in order to secure recognition a recoup and realize his bis own power as st T sovereign citizen and ye we hereby announce to all that this power will not be bartered for the empty i promises remises of aspiring poli ticiano tic ians fourth that salt lake work r shall go to salt lake workmen fifth that the home contractor i being lk contributor to public fund trie U eri entitled titled to the preference pie ference in all I 1 public alic work over the foreign con lE tractor chur conditions being equal e sixth that the machine politics I 1 of healing a candidate by the I 1 selection action of his personal friends for delegates del el gates a S at the primaries and their ac packing ac the same is destructive i of the genius American of liberty for the dignified public wee ice the clamorous howl of f ti thac onico logee lif weal cical hyena the chr chronic office EMIL seventh thatah that a factors in the body politic we are prepared to assume our portion bf the responsibility tb the e conduct of public affairs resolutions resolved that a public servant in accepting his trust and accepting his hia pay is in hoar bound to serve the public when he uses his off official leial position to serve his private ends he forfeits the tha confidence of his fellow citizens hence we deprecate and designate as disgraceful the universal candidature of the salt lake registration officers Resol resolved Ke solved led that this office must seek the man and not the man seek the office revolved that we have men who have carried dinner pails for a lifetime that will make more efficient officers than those who have never haT handled idled such an implement the platform and resolutions were opposed by VV L dykes but they were passed with only ona or two dissenting votes voces the committee then presented the names of those suggested by them for nomination as candidates candida te for county offices there was some discussion on the candidates candidate s and the ticket was finally adopted as follows for county clerk fergus ferguson recorder Bc order john H rumel Ae assessor sessor J H clive sheriff A J burt selectman george R cushing Cus bing surveyor lafayette G burton attorney J H hurd treasurer J B toronto torono boroner coroner lorenzo cracroft several speeches were then theia made and the meeting adjourned |
