Show THE CAMPAIGN IS NOW ON citizens nonpartisan non parti partisan san and republicans announce their candidates CITIZENS nonpartisan NON PARTISAN TICKET for mayor WM T DAVIS councilman poll 1 2 year term SYLVANUS IVERSON councilman poll 2 4 year term JOSEPH F HANSEN councilman poll 3 2 year term C W RICHARDS councilman poll 4 2 year term C ELIAS JENSEN recorder P RUSSELL WIGHT treasurer ELIZA MADSEN I 1 justice ot of the peace C 0 0 christensen platform we the citizens of brigham city in mass convention assembled declare ourselves in lavor favor ot of a city administration unhampered by party obligations that our cites affairs are foreign to national political issues ind and require a strictly business administration and hereby call on all voters of 0 brigham city to support and elect a citizens ticket at a the coming election for the following reasons 1 to eliminate party responsibility and shoulder it upon individuals and and to to break brak the str strings i lagg that bind 2111 officers cers chosen by party bosses 2 we believe officers chosen by the people at large can work freer and do more good than those chown by any one party 3 to be in una line with the progressive thoughts of oi the day ali take oty city government out of 0 party polities politics 4 the appointive offices can then be filled by those qualified rather than by those who have bave a pull 5 that the board of health be backed up p by the city administration OR so BO as to bring results 6 we favor a municipal weekly market 7 we deplore the failure of the present city administration in not making a report to the people of the findings of the committee appointed to investigate the feasibility of a municipal telephone system and our nominees pledge themselves to work for the establishment of a municipal telephone system we favor the municipal ownership of public cutill ties 8 we are proud of the tact fact that brigham city has no open saloon and we favor prohibition ot of the liquor traffic in every sense of the word 9 we favor establishing lines of streets grades and ditches we also demand the parking of the city hall ball property and suph sua other improvements as would beautify the city and make it attractive to home seekers 10 we oppose the granting of any franchise without its first being submitted to the people 11 we declare this platform made to stand anand not merely torun to run on and ther therefore Wore we favor the framing of these resolutions and haying having them hung on the walls of the city council chum champen beff NON PARTISAN convention agreeable to the call published publish od last week citizens c of brigham who are interested te tn in having a nonpartisan non partisan ticket elected to fill the city offices at the election next month met in mass convention friday evening lathe inthe lie new court room of the county court house dr R A pearse called balled the convention to order and asked for nom nominations ina for chairman john P christensen was named and unanimously elected atef without further delay and after delivering a speech in which he argued for the removal of all party politics from city government the convention got down to business the secretaries were N C simonsen Simona cn and J W phillips the various committees were named as follows platform and resolutions N J valentine norman lee victor E madsen R A kasler sly danfus iverson and T ir II blackburn order of 0 business it 11 jones C 0 christensen and J E halverson to circulate petition for signatures john E baird R A pearse W T davis all AH committees were appointed by the house bouse during the recess which followed foI foil owed speech making was indulged in some of the spell binders being turned 10 booso and no little enthusiasm was continued on oa page three republican TICKET for mayor J FRANCIS MERRELL councilman poll 1 2 year term P C JENSEN councilman poll 2 4 year term J A FISHBURN councilman poll 3 2 year term J C councilman poll 4 2 year term R A MADSEN recorder P RUSSELL RUSSE LL WIGHT treasurer ELIZA HANSON justice of the peace PETER KNUDSON platform we the republicans of brigham city in mass convention assembled adopt the following platform we reaffirm re affirm our allegiance alle gance to the republican party and its principles by which our country has become the greatest and foremost nation in the world today we fully endorse the stand taken by byi our senators I 1 and cengr congressmen in is ehg I bierent present ext exira 7 m session of congress ln I 1 using every power and influx influence once to safe guard our industries and to protect our workmen from foreign labor W we congratulate our state republican administration for the clean and progressive politics it has followed we point with pride to the labors 1 and to the progressive spirit 0 ot r our present city administration in maintaining the efficiency of our electric light and power system in extending the water mains of the city in constructing ting and extending the now new pipe line up the south fork and thereby securing ing an increased water supply our city with to come in advocating the ownership of another public utility a telephone system c calling alling I a mass meeting appointing a committee of investigation and accepting the report of the said committee favoring municipal ownership we pledge codr our candidates if elected to use every effort toward securing municipal ownership of a telephone system we call the attention of our citizens to the miles of pavement that have been laid by the present incumbents and to the economical and business like way in which the city funds have been handled weare we are unalterably opposed to extending the hour tor for closing pool and billiard balls and we further pledge pedge our officers to stamp out any and all illicit illicit traffic of liquor republican convention at the call of city chairman J C knudson the republicans me met t in nia mass convention friday evening of last week in the old court room ot of the county court house chairman knud son called the convention to order and mr B C call wa amade temporary chairman with S 14 pierce secretary alter after th reiding reading of the call the committee qa a and resolutions waa as appointed as follows P F W Flabbi fishburn lim H 1 G lawn larsen 3 0 or kandros andew J I 1 lows A recess w waa uteri therl taken to ive th committee time to formulate its ita report upon re assem bling making was indulged in IA those called upon being mi mr J C knudson senator W C horater goreley Ho rafer reley mr H 8 larsen mr A M merriu merrill mr J francis merrell mr F W fish I 1 burn bum mr H C day mr 1 I E duffin attorney W J lowe and others A committee from roin the citizens nonpartisan convention waited upon the republicans and asked them to join in the movement to lo place in nomination a citizens ticket the convention did not feel like making a reply at af the theand tin evand arveed the committee that the reply would be sent in writing A committee of F W fishburn H S larsen and A lisle eddy was named to formulate the re ply which was a negative one A motion was made during the progress of the convention to unite with the non partisans and when put to a vote was defeated by a lute large majority the business of naming a ticket did not require ranch much time nor balloting as tho the convention was harmonious und and everything moved with di dispatch the ua unanimous remit of the balloting continued on page five republican convention continued from first page for in iii the ticket I 1 above after the ticket had dad been completed the resignation kt chairman J C knudson was accepted and mr A 11 merrill a as unanimously chosen to succeed him miss ilsa trieste box was selected as precinct secretary and the convention adjourned |