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Show TRUTH. 10 good He has a business head and will be a the door) Must you go? Well, (Turns to his desk as Leary day. useful member of the 'City Council. backs off a few steps and then bolts through the door, his long coat flapping in the breeze created by his sudArthur J. Davis, erroneously styled den exit.) The stenographers "jes laffed and Albert J. Davis in Truth of October even the office cat smiled. Counas 19th, will certainly be elected cilman from the Fifth. He is very popular and has many warm friends. A. A. Robertson has made many His record in. the City Council and on committees was such as entitles him to friends by the courageous and indeHe has good business be sense and applies it to propositions pendent stand he took both in regard to the bicycle question and in refusing which come before him. to answer the questions put to him in common writh the other candidates as to enforcing the ordinances against There was talk that Dick Whittemore gambling, Sunday liquor selling and would run behind his ticket, but he bo forth. A man who cannot be wont do anything of the kind. He is a coerced even at the risk of being deat the polls is about the right hustler and is making friends and votes feated kind of a man to elect to public office. third-terR. man, dally. He has a He be depended upon to do what may it. do will and to he P. Morris, beat, is right after he is elected. . re-elect- ed. . m . We might bicyclists from taking harm.means of a also agree to elect, by each levied upon tax special annual at stations suitable who walks, person proper Intervals where pedestrians must wait until bicycles go by. These stations should be elevated about our path, the supthirty feet above that they constructed so ports to be would not Interfere with the safety of wheelmen nor In any measure retard their speed. It might be the duty of all pedestrians to keep a sharp lookout for wheelmen, and forward and back when one is ' sighted, to mount the steps and take his post on the platform of the station, standing at attention and saluting gravely as the wheelman passes. It might be made a misdemeanor for any pedestrian to be found outside of a station when a wheelman is within a block in any direction. This is merely thrown out as a suggestion, and, as will be seen, the plan is embryonic as yet, but I think the scheme could be worked out and it would effectually solve the bicycle question. The pedestrians" might object? Well, let em. Who are they, anyhow? a very valuable Chairman Eichnor of the Republican member of the City Council. He is a city committee predicts fine weather good parliamentarian and has a level on business head, and with Robertson and his Tuesday and a signal victory for WHERE YE SPANKWEED GROWS. party. Davis will represent the Fifth precinct creditably. There a corner in our garden, but my wont tell me where, "I only offer this as a suggestion, That nurs? little boys must never see, but almust beware. "Dont you bet anything on Thomp- said the fat man. uring the discussion And ways in corner, all the year, in rows, that of Jim of the political situation, "and I dont son, said an ardent supporter and rows, and rows, Leary the other day. "Jim- has fixed know that the thing is feasible, but I A dreadful flower called the Spankweed the Z. C. M. I. and the church also, and think it is. My plan is to have those Grows! Its all right. Jims a pretty smooth who, like myself, are not built right or nursle says that if a boy who doesn't boy. Yes, he saw Col. Webber at the who for other reasons dont ride bi- My W&Sh his fCLCG Z. C. M.L and made it all right there, cycles, form an association and sub- Or pulls his little sisters hair, should ever that place, and C. W. Penrose pledged the support mit a list of questions to the political The find would just jump at him, spankweed candidates. We ask them if might they of the church to the Democrats. Jims his clo'es. and dust would, when eleected, lend their sup- Oh, its never safelittle for fellers where the all right, I tell you. port to an ordinance reserving a narSpankweed was advice above the The day after row pathway in the streets, among the Grows! proffered Mayor Thompson receivedas-a trees, 'along the gutters, across the communication from Mr. Penrose Ill get a sickle from our hired lawns, between the car tracks, over the Some day and then suring the Mayor that Mr. Penrose roofs, or and this is the most we Ill goman, and find that spankweed place its would vote for him and support him for would expect along one side, of the in the glen. How Jim fixed the Z. C. sidewalks, for the few thousands who And somewhere It an puttin when I get M. I. is told as follows. have to walk in this town. We might in my blows, Scene Office of the Superintendent pledge ourselves to wear bells around I bet here'll be excitement where the Mercantile In- our necks in the daytime and to of Zions Spankweed carry (rrows stitution. red lights at night so as to prevent -Paul in 'Life. West, Personae The Dramatis Superintendent; a tall thin man, by the namen of Leary, clothed in a long, n overcoat and a short, glllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll liiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiig two and smile; stenographers the office cat. Time One day this week. The Superintendent is discovered seated at his desk, the ta-t-stenographers are beating a rapid o on their machines, and the office cat is quietly snoozing in the waste paper basket. Eenter Leary (walks down center and clears his throat) Ahem! Is this the superintendent of the Z. C. M. 1? Superintendent Yes, Eir. Leary I was not quite sure, never introhaving had the pleasure of an (ONE HUNDRED) duction, and being a recent comer I never tax (stummean, I have paid bling) I should say, I am a recent (gaining confidence); yes, sir, poll tax payer. Ahem! (confidently) I am Mr. James C. Leary, Democratic nominee for Mayor of Salt Lake City. (Strikes attitude and pauses to note the effect.) No one falls down and although the stenographers exchange glances they do not miss a key. Superintendent (calmly) Yes, - Mr. Leary, quite so; wont you sit down? (Leary sits.) Leary Knowing that you have been BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS. g a Democrat, I, ahem, feeling that you must certainly that is, I am anxious of course for the support ahem! of Democrats, naturally, ha, ha! (Laughs nervously.) Superintendent Yes, yes, of course. Leary (drawing a long breath) We are anxious, of course, to have as many votes as possible on election day. The more the merrier, of course, you know that is, perhaps happier would Importers and Dealers in be a better word; we Democrats are not getting merry this year, you know; we are happy, very happy, but not GRANITE AND STONE, merry, oh, dear no. Superintendent Yes, quite so, Mr. Leary. GRATES AND MOUMENTAL WORK, .. Leary (as the superintendent glances at his desk) I hope I am not detaining you, but you see I wanted to know at 2ly 23, 25 and 27 West South Temple Street, least one prominent citizen, and me he he told that is, Georgie Blair, gave me to understand I mean I SALT LAKE CITY. Fisher Dale, ahem! ahem! (Spits on a office who awakes with the cat, J. S. Daveler will be - re-electi- on. Co-operat- ive 1 dark-brow- light-brow- JUST UNLOADING tax-pay- er New and Elegant WOOD MANTELS life-lon- ELIAS MORRIS & SONS CO., -- -- : start.) Superintendent Yes, yes , it is a pleasant day (As Leary looks toward OGDEN POLITICS. There Is no change that it is gettir.-hottare The people doing a lot of thinking, and the result cuts botii ways. The class that does its own thinking is rapidly coming to the conclusion that the next Mayor will ho Ogden, Nov. 1. in the campaign save Joe Scowcroft. The people who let someone else do their thinking that is, those who get public opinion as reflected by the columns of the Standard, are sanguine for a Bill victory. But there are other thinkers. In this n town there are people left who know what they want anil who also know what is about right for the town to have. It is unnecessarv to say that these people are not for Bill. They are too upright to want a mountebank for Mayor. They are too honorable to stand for a trickster as the executive of the city. They have too much local pride to help put an ass into a lions hide. And these people number not a few. boss-ridde- It is a good thing that as It people grow is a happy thought that the people cannot be fooled all the time. It is most gratifying that the fakir and the bull con old they grow wise. artist only last till their race is run. Otherwise even a habitable town like the good city of Ogden might suffer the extremity of doing penance for dallying with its own peculiar brand of political acrobats. But the danger is not great. Sometimes, you know, a town or county or State becomes hoodooed by some vacillating charletan, and, for a time, the people take him seriously. But the spell soon wears off. People, for the most part, are willing to give every man a fair trial, but they wont lend their moral support to a shell game twice. Of course, some grafters start a new game when the old shell becomes so cracked that the people can see the pea, and there are those who will bite. fame-huntin- mi mg g, However, the sucker is an animal that is growing less populous every day. There was a time when a newspaper of no better morals than the Standard could make or break any candidate. Nowadays the people read the buncome-lade- n columns of some papers and jess laff. The trouble is, hot air is not a satisfying diet. The people believe about as much of Bills daily potpourri as he does himself. Yes, I guess they believe more. For Bill is smart whatever else you say about him and he certainly is too well acquainted with the Standard to take much stock in its political arguments. But that is another story. What I mean to say is that all this waterworks rot that we get every evening will not down. It is. too raw. Cook It, Bill; boil it; do you think the people are ostriches? Give us the whole truth occasionally, or, better still, give us something you believe yourself. That was a fine, manly letter which Joe Scowcroft sent to the chairman of the city committee. Joe simply denied in plain terms the ridiculous implication of the Standard, to the effect that he was the choice of the water company for a candidate. Joe Scowcroft is every inch a man and he means just exactly what he says. He was not the choice of the water company any more than was Bill, but even the company directors are human, and, as intelligent citizens, how could they support Bill when there is a chance to vote for some one else. On the low down I want to give you a tip; there is going to be a Scowcroft landslide, and, while the signs are everywhere apparent, Bill wont see them. He still pounds away at the waterworks as though there were really something In it, when, as a matter of fact, he is only a poor imitator of the small boy who whistled to' keep his courage ' up. Whats the use of courage when you are licked? ' . mi er. rt'.. It is proper here to pave the way for what is sure to come after election. |