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Salt Lake City, Utah Phone Wasatch 5409 311-12-- j I I 13 i i ji i LOCAL POLITICAL SITUA TI0N Politics is a business' with which the average person absolutely refuses to have anything to do with and then if things do not go right lie kicks, roars and splutters about like a maniac.- The thing is that if everybody got into politics, went to the primaries and then to the polls, we could get the best men into office. When a person once gets into office, if he or she is a level headed person, it is hard to get them out. If they do their duty and cut down - for government expenses they may be retained through years, but this is seldom their lot.. A man elected to office makes 'enemies, as well as friends, and generally at the end of one or two terms at mostr he has split his crowd and they turn to the other re-electi- ons fellow. We have a city election coming up this fall and according to reports about town there is going to be a lively time. Already nearly every prominent citizen of the city has been suggested for mayor or city commissioner. So far only a few petitions are in circulation to secure enough names to place the candidates upon the primary tickets. However, a majority of those who expect to come out for office are either working in the dark, laying their fences unseen and in secret, or they do not care to make a long campaign and are allowing the matter to rest until the opportune time arrives for their 'initial announcement for the office desired. Under our present form of government the commission party lines are supposed to be ignored, but in checking up in a majority of instances, it will be found that the party leaders get behind the candidates of their own political faith and before election the fight has resolved itself down to a contest between the two political par- ties Republican and Democratic. For some time there has been an organization active in securing The many of the prominent people to get, behind a new ticket. organization started with a committee of 125 but it is said that the 'membership has now swollen to several thousand. It is proposed to select three prominent business men who are not radical and who will work for a business administration. All kinds of reports are being circulated as to what this new party is going to do. It is said that new material must be secured in order to make a show-du- g in the city and put some ginger into it. The three outgoing commissioners arc Mayor C. Clarence Nes- len and commissioner of waterworks; Herman Green, commissioner !qf finance, and Commissioner T. T. Burton of the street department. Not any of the three have announced that they will run again but will ordinary conditions prevailing it is more than likely that they Appear in the race this fall. It will be hard to beat these three all the city machinery mien, tlic chief reason being that they have behind them and this organization will give them a lead of several thousand votes, to start with. Outside candidates will have to build their political machines and it would take a great deal of time and with those money to perfect organizations which would be on a par controlled by the present commissioners whose term of office expires the first of the year. However, there is a great unrest throughout the entire country and recent elections have shown surprising turnovers. The people are demanding new officers with the hope that the new men will lower taxes, and this will be one of the talking points in the coming election. The Democrats will undoubtedly get behind the three men, if they decide to run for office. If all the Republicans who have signified their intentions of coming out arc firm, the Republican vote will be split in a dozen ways and the result will be defeat. There has been much talk of late regarding the new party and people arc becoming anxious as to what it intends to do and who are the sponsors for it. There is only three months left in which to get busy and any party that can put over a new ticket in that time must hustle. RESELL PROVISIONS. The New York Herald publishes a recapitulation of the amount of money the United States has furnished Europe since the signature of the armistice. This resume comes at a very oportunc time, in view of the renewed campaign upon the part of internationalists to get the United States involved in Europes political and economic troubles under the pretense that America should do something to help the stricken European countries. All of the money or credits furnished Europe since the war has been for the purpose of helping rebuild devastated areas and place the war-tor- n peoples of Europe firmly upon the highway to peace and reconstruction. One of the first acts of the United States government was an authorization by congress for the sale of war supplies and equipment, owned by this country but located in Europe, to any of the governments who were our allies. Under this act, the suplies and machinery were to be turned over to the countries needing them for rconstruction purposes, without any cash in return, the sale being made on credit. Under the provisions of this act, European nations purchased $574,706,299 worth of supplies on credit, upon the representation that they could use the supplies to rebuild their devastated areas or to sustain their stricken populations. Some of the countries did this. Others took the supplies and resold them to European customers for cash. None of these supplies have been paid for. In addition, there has been accumulated an interest account of more than $18,000,000. Early in 1919 the congress made another appropriation authorizing the expenditure by the Treasury department of $100,000,00 for foodstuffs and other supplies for European countries. According to the official records in the treasury department, the United States ! t |
