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Show T v THE voi II SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, Jl'XDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1907. NO. 38 PARTY EDITION AMERICAN Jiirk ad Jill ran't alwayi bora and girl, cover Vm up. In fact, the air seems to be fresh r. th.- - skies brighter. the path smoother, the smile broader. Evwytfcnw U tieiier, and everybody has null r looking do a hi none. Now honestly, old man, don't youyoiirM- -i feel heap betier AMERICAN CITY COMMITTEE THE CANDIDATES-WH- THEY ARE. O John S. Hraneford, American PVt-- ' i.m!iiiate for minor of Sail Lake Cily. epitomizes all that la progressive an j ciiservntlve. a larger cli.v. conducted on business liuea for all the 1 topic. I.; hi axiom. The success that baa alwaya manifested Itself in Me ftivap- cnn-- i prises Is mi indication of the results he wtil attain in public 1IY. Mr. ilranaforJ wua born August IB. lhii m Kichmoml, ltuy county, Missouri. in 1 Mil hi' went to Ilutnaa opmty California. The entire overland ox team, and whet Inn eighi years old he first aaw the trip was tnaile A Her city fill which he was to afterwards art j its guide un.i tneutor. living In IMuma county hia father mined l.;s family later to Imli.in valley, Later again they returned to I'lutuaa then to IetHlunia. Sonora county. Rran.-aurcame to Utah, in 1K99. He county and there remained until Mr. received hia education In the public acboo.s. added to liy six months in a San Francisco buslneus college. He became u Ujokkeeitcr for several iiiininR conipaniea and engaged In commerce and r Itiing. lit 1878 he married Miss Hachel Blood of Creacent Mills, Cal. Ha then entered (he merchandise business at (irrenville and also eiiRageii in Luil Mi,;; saw and quarts mills. He has appeared some in politics In that slate, ti.u not In the slate of Utah until made mayor. lie In tfala city Mr. Iiransford hi identified with several enterprises, was, soon after becoming a member, elected president of the mining slock exchange, he has large ptinlng interests in Eureka, Hark City, and lleany and Ely. Nev., and represents large Interest in the Silver King. He is a director in the Utah State bank: the; Keiih O'Brien company ; is president of the of the Utah Ilullfrog Mluing com puny, or Beatty; is InsurSilver King Coalition Mines company; president of the Kogeiw-Kvan- s ance company, and a director of the Utah Mexican Huhlier coni puny. Under s bis management the Branaford and apartments were built, and be built and owns the Plumas block, on West Second Month street.' lie is a member of several cluba. and is. In every sense, a progressive, conservj ative business man. . 1 nt Emery-Holme- in System and economy." Such is fitting phrase for John II. Moreton, candidate for rity recorder on the American ticket. It is a synonym or the work of Mr. Moreton for the two years In which he has been in office. JOHN B. MORETON. American Party Candidate for City Recorder. HARPER J. DININNY. American Party Candidate for City Attorney. AMERICAN CITY COMMITTEE AD0RES8. See the results which go to make up reasons for support of the bentjji-cen- t rule of the American party: Mormon religion classes have been removed from three hundred public school buildings throughout the state, which are supjiorted out of the public 141st regiment. New York state volunteers, in the war of the rebellion. He was admitted to the bar of the state of New York May 15, 1873. Iln came to Utah early in ISill, lu politics he has alwaya been a Democrat and was chairman of the Democratic state committee in 1894. He was one of the organisers of the American party and for the past two years has been assistant city attorney of Halt Lake t'lly. taxes. which had hauefully distressed Utah has The particular been reduced to such a condition that the best men in the Mormon church are beginning to repudiate it, and the others are driven to make miserable and shocking excases for it. Millions of dollars for improvement are being spent in Salt Lake City by the Oregon Short Line and Rio Grande railway systems. Milllona of dollurs are being spent for improvements in Salt take City by the street railway company. People ride over infinitely better rails and roadbeds, and are to bo served with the highest type of car comfort that is available In the whole world, just as fast as the manufacturers can fill the great orders which have been plared for these modern public vehicles. A great new gas plant has been established here, offering the most facilities for convenient lighting and fuel. And this concern has every week. pent over a million dollars, and is still spending thousands Our telephone service has been greatly Improved, the-t'companies' having expended vast amounts of money in order to bring about that result. They are spending more and more every day. In continuation of the scheme of enlargement which has been brought into being by reason of the lifting of the fear which formerly oppressed all business concerns here. are under way. They will Several great steel and cement cost hundreds of thousands or dollars, piercing the skies to heights heretofore unknown In this intermountaln region. Miles of paved streets have replaced the bogs which once characterised our main thoroughfures. Miles of sewers have been laid, which insure health and vigor to the man and his wife, to the son and the daughter, to the wee brat that toddles along the cement walks, and to the sweet baby In the blessed mother's arms. Great arteries have been set into the ground, through which the cltv Is watered from the high mountains clearest crystal streams. Where a week ago atood an old adobe shack is now rearing a splendid bonded warehouse of generous proportions and liberal cost Near the Short Line railway tracks has been upraised a wonderful grain elevator and storehouse, into whose huge belly will be ixtured the wheat, g Rudolph Alff, candidate on the American imrty ticket for city auditor, might pruiierly In: termed "one of the old guard." In the days of the Rebellion he served bis lime as volunteer on behalf bf his country. Mincy that time he has rsrrid Into his daily pursuits the same honesty of punaise that characterised his efforts on behalf of a nation. As a citizen he has been found progressive and earnest ; as ah official, honest, and competent. Mr. Alff has been a resident of Malt take City for the pnat thirty-eigh- t years. For thirty years he was one of I lie leading mrrrhanU of the city. iko fwimt )t Ua km DS alw mA omAsU- mlkx J of the lsMva of enucathm-- k tribute to hte sterling tetegrtty In the. campaign of 1906 Mr. Alff, in conjunction with the other mem-tier- s of 'his party, waa elected to his present office of rity auditor, on the American ticket. He has served the rity faithfully and well; conserving its interests, loyal tp his imrty and honest to the public. and Baking the auffrage ;f the people, he points Standing for to his record in that office as a qualification for further confidence. Politics . to Mr. Alff have never apen!cd alone from a standpoint, but with a patriotic desire to help a rity as much as he aided a country in hia earlier daya. )k wo '-' . ' --' r-I f Mabarx n pm-tlss- Horn at Wanahlp, Summit Gideon Snyder is a native aon of Utah. county, forty yean ago, he has since that time, and in pursuance of the pride of nativity In him, made Utah the scene of hia battles and conqueats. Mr. Snyder is not now and never waa in the fullest sense of the word a politician, yet he hSs never default e:l when a call of public duty came to him. For a number of years after hia birth u farm waa the scene of his endeavors. Carrying Into that occupation the name faithfulness and ardor that has since carried him Biifety over many a goal pf success it had never come Ills way liefore to embark actively on the sea of jiolltlca. t Ilia first vole on attaining hia majority waa for the Liberal party, being it JOHN 8. BRAN8FORD. American Party Candidate for Mayor. 'r v- . MSfraMlK Born in Salt Lake City. June 8, lSf.2, Mr. Moreton has ever been a consistent and persistent citixen for Ids home city; ever looking out for its welfare and advancement. Educated In the public schools, he later graduated front the University of Utah, in lh82. For a number of year he was principal of the largest and most select school In the city. Here, tinder his rity received tutelage, some of the foremost young men and women of the 1890 he was their education'. At the consolidation of the city schools in elected secretary of the Board of Education, nerving in that capacity until 1904. To Mr. Moreton is largely due the organisation and syalemaHsatom ' of the school accounts which are used at the itreBent lime. It was during his fourteen years of public service as secretary of the school board that most of Salt Lakes magnificent school buildings were erected. Next to Moreton did more for the organisation and Superintendent Millspangh. Mr.school system, of the city than any other Inadvancement of the splendid He has been actively Identified with the National Educational dividual Association, and in July. 1S9R. lie was elected the first secretary of the school board section of that association. Since leaving the secretaryahlp of the school board he hna liniU up s ni'lendld bnaliieaa for his Insurance com pany. 1ms kept a better During the last two years a rity recorder Mr. Moreton system and inaugurated more refonpa than all his predecessors combined. The civil division of the city c.nirt has, under his direction, indexed over' 33 000 old cases in the dockeli of the Justices of llie ppace, so that now. able to obtain attorneys and others .wishing ir.t.irnnn from that court are it with no difficulty. has been systematised with a In the recorders office pro-s-- r the city records since 1852 have lieen re- Ail view in public conveyance. to the city as well as the recorders office filed in a manner that is a er-c- li Mr. Moreton can well stand In coming before the peopl- - for dur-nthe past two years. Another thing on the good record he has nu-- bIs the fact that, unlike some that is very much in favor of Mr. Moreton entire at the office, and his whole time Ms former officials, he has spent , attention has been given to tl ' ' W rork. lisr g rw 3 e.1 j ; Steuben connly. New York. June 7. Mr. Dinlnny was 1mm t 1851. He served as mounted milerly for his father, who was colonel of the ' RUDOLPH ALFF. American Party Candidate for City Auditor. Ask Your Dealer and the corn, and the oats, and (he barley, and the rye, which will he the beginning of a project having for Its object the placing of Utah among the controllers of the markets in these useful cereals. Hundreds of fine residences, thousands of loveable cottages, have sprung up all altout us and the cry is everlastingly for more and more. Merchants do not know how to take care of the business that is upsetting their handling capacities and thronging their- doors with customers asking to be waited upon. Dad smokes a pretty good brand of cigar, or Just the kind of pipe that be likes, with a few quarters making that funny noise, or sweet sound, as he himself Jingles along the street to his business. Mother's frock Is just about as good as she needs to have; and If the groceryman acts a little independently toward her, she is able to go to the next shop, with her purse In her hand and simile on her face, without the conscience-stricke- n borause he thought that she should deal with has accommodated her on tick. Fo- GIDEON SNYDER. American Party Candidate for City Treasurer. - a hsrd a ml consistent worker with that party. In 1892. after its disbar he went io the Republican party, remaining with that party inti when he joined the American party. That same year, being s delegate the state Republican convention, he participated in its labors and that fall 'voted the state ticket. Mr. Snyder moved to Salt take City la 1899. engaging lu the mining business. later engaging in the mercantile and minute buslncri at Kimberly, Utah, until 19UI. when he permanently located in ihii city. At present he is Identified with his brother, AVIllurd F. Snyder, in mining operating; Is secretary and treasurer of the National Development company and Is interested in several other large corporations, operating In Utah and Nevada. He is an ardent American both as' to party and to land of birth. He seeks the office to which he whs uomin.ite.I more us an enterprising citizen than as an active partisan. I:'1-1'- 1 MARBLE The Pttt SPRINGS." Whiskey. RIEGER A IJNDLEY. Distributors. |