Show THE SITUATION IN farmington FAK some eighteen miles north of capital lies the town of farmington the county seat of davis county hitherto noted for its beautiful situation n and the good sense of its inhabitants tt has been an incorporated city for many years and always has been well governed verned ero its streets are kept in good repair and the public peace Is reason obly well protected and preserved yet an old resident of the town informs thi news that he cannot remember that there was ever a city tax assessed in other words the city has been governed verned aro the streets kept in repair and 11 necessary public improvements have been made absolutely without a tax levy for such purposes the town receives from licenses about a hundred dollars a year and what is reau required ired for street repairs etc in excess of this amount is donated by catiz citizens ns this vear for example some loads of ravel have been hauled upon the streets by donation it is scarcely necessary to add to these pleasant facts the further one that hat the control of the municipality has hitherto been nonpartisan non partisan it Is hardly possible for such results as have been produced there to flo flow w from a partisan administration had th been political debts to pay the pe would not have been so lightly taxed and those debts are almost Inse inseparable from but a serpent entered the garden abt eden and the spirit of partisan apoll political has crept into farmington A jhb ab time ago some of the boys got goott and launched a partisan tic hicl A little later another me meet of voters was held at w it was determined to perpetuate now n partisan control and a ticket to athla end was prepared the time allo allowed 3 by law for the measures feces to be taken to prepare and nominate a nonpartisan non partisan ticket had expired and for this reason it was agreed tha though the second ticket was ree nonpartisan non partisan and contained democrats to four republicans should be called a republican ti tid with one or two exceptions th candidates on this ticket are the persons who have been holding 0 boffl and under whose administration 1 town has been governed without tax and the understanding ing is tl if reelected re elected they will continue 1 same policy the news is ass asam that the overwhelming sentiment the town favors the reelection election re of old officers who comprise nearly entire nonpartisan non partisan ticket but t there is danger of the other tie tic winning through the apathy of voters it seldom pays to swap old fri for new ones and to exchange a n nc partisan government such as pal ington has been having for a one agne such for example as this cit city been having is still more like likely prove unprofitable should bollt clans once get a grip on the treas and tax power of our neighbor ort on 1 I north the people there would be Ws it I 1 10 0 learn the value of vigilance it Is price of safety the voters of B ington should head off the politic call |