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Show HOW THE CITY IS WORKED. The way Mr. Back became away Back and the church agent Fernstrom was made to succeed him, "constitute an outrage which should be resented re-sented by every voter in the Third ward. To deny de-ny that it is a case of direct church interference would be to outrage the common sense of the city. He was fairly beaten. The men of his ward said as plainly as men could say that they were tired of him, and that it was not because he was a Mpr-mon Mpr-mon was made plain enough when a Mormon was named in his- stead. But on a flmsy excuse, that other Mormon resigned from the ticket. We say flimsy because he knew just as much about his own business when he permitted his neighbors to nominate him as he did when he withdrew his candidacy. The thought in ten thousand minds when he withdrew was that he was counseled to withdraw, and the instant thought succeeded that it was in Fernstrom's interest and that it would be Fernstrom that would be named to succeed him. It will be just like the Deseret News to wait a couple of days and then defy the world to prove that the Mormon Church had anything to do with the change, or was in any manner interested in the matter. Fernstrom has been a meddler, an obstructionist, an agent of the church, an expense to the city from the first. Years ago, when the elder Kelsey over and over pointed out the danger dan-ger of the city's losing a most valuable water right in Utah lake unless certain needed work was done, Fernstrom prevented the work and the forfeiture for-feiture came. His personal antipathy to the city engineer caused him to prefer to have the city suffer the loss rather than to follow the suggestion sugges-tion of the engineer. But when it came to buying the scares in the canal last summer, Fernstrom was the right bower of the mayor in the transaction. transac-tion. To digress for a moment: When it it is told by the -friends of Mayor Morris that he devised the only practical plan for supplying the city with water, it is well enough to keep in mind that the plan was worked' out in all its details by the elder Kelsey when city engineer the full details of the work, the titles to be obtained, everything and we suspect the papers are on file in the engineer's office. But no matter. It is Fernstrom who is under consideration now. It is a clear case that, though his neighbors repudiated him, the chiefs of the Mormon church are determined that he shall be kept in the council, because while there, though under oath to perform his official duties to his utmost ability, he construes that to mean merely that he must at all times hold himself subject to the will of the priests of the dominant creed. Is it not time to try to shake that incubus from the city's prosperity, from honorable men's self respect? Is it not time for property owners to assert .themselves and to look after their pecuniary interests in-terests in the city? It is a clear case that it will make a million dollars difference to them whether Mr. Thompson is or is not elected. It will make many millions in the next two years if Mr. Thompson and a council made up of real American Ameri-can citizens are elected, and all slaves of the Fernstrom brood are retired. Surely it is worth the effort to emancipate the city if possible. |