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Show I Politico-Personal H With the opening of American party headquar- H ters at 68 West 2nd South street, in charge of H Secretary Dana T, Smith and Frank Christensen, H and W Mont Ferry as chairman of the committee, H the campaign for the re-election of Mayor John H S. Bransford and the election of the official Am- H erican party ticket is on with a vengeance. H The political atmosphere has cleared percep- H tihly and the issues are now so clearly defined H that there can be little doubt in the mind of the H average citizen as to his convictions on the prop- H er candidates for whom he should vote. The H party machine was never in better shape for a H hard fight than at present. M The general meeting of the Commercial club called for tonight at which the following H subjects are to be discussed: Ways and means H for bringing about the establishment of a brigade H post at Fort Douglas; the retention of the tele-H tele-H phone headquarters at Salt Lake; good roads; m ways and means for assisting manufacturers and H jobbers to command the territory which geograph-H geograph-H ically belongs to Salt Lake, should receive the support, by means of their attendance, of every H member interested In the city's up-building. Hj There may be some question as to what they M can accomplish on the first two subjects, but on 1 the last two a united effort in the proper direction could not but result advantageously. Ii Is our B belief that ultimately Fort Douglas is to be made a brigade post and that the decision to this ef-M ef-M feet has long since reposed in the files of the B War Department at Washington. Its stragetic j geographical advantages are too obvious to war-H war-H rant any other conclusion, and we are just as M firmly of the opinion that were it not for Utah's H congressional delegation's inactivity, an army M brlsjpda would have occupied Fort Douglas these H many years. H If anyone is gullible enough to believe that H there Is any influence in this valley outside the H dominating influence, sufficiently strong to induce H Utah's cluster of congressional satellites to faith B fully and in dead earnest urge the enlargement H of Fort Douglas to a brigade post, we suggest they H lose no time in trying. M H As for assisting Salt Lake manufacturers and H jobbers to command the territory which geo- H graphically belongs to Salt Lake City, th9 Inter- H State Commerce Commission in its rulings H granting important freight rates reductions into H this territory and that intervening between Utah H and the coast, has already rendered local manu- H facturers and jobbers very material assistance H In enabling them to broaden their territory. We H shall be somewhat more interested, however, in H watching the drift of prices in and about Salt Lake on those commodities whose rates were so H greatly reduced by the Commission after the H lower rates go into effect November 15th. A M very substantial reduction in the cost of a great fl many necessaries Is looked for by those citizens H who understand the import of the commerce com- m mission's new ruling. H M In stating in our last issue that Assistant City H Attorney Daly had personally gone to Mayor H Bransford prior to the American party conven- M tion in which Daly proved just how far gall and H the public crib habit can carry one and prom- H ised the Mayor his support, we reported that H which did not happen, that is, Daly did not go 1 to the Mayor and promise him his support. mHI In the cloud of recriminations and the inter- Hj esting crop of generally assinJ-9 things that have H been said and done by some o. the leading mal- M contents in the American party's ranks, so many mM ii iniiiMinrm reports have reached us of the disgruntled yawps of those who are indebted to the present development devel-opment of the American party for about all they have of which to boast, that no little difficulty has been experienced in assigning these tales to their proper sources. We now understand it was that well known legal satellite, Mr. A. J. Weber, who called upon Mayor Bransford several weeks before the convention con-vention and assured him that he certainly must run for Mayor; that the party could not do without him. We therefore tender our apologies to Mr. Daly for the incorrectness of our statement state-ment of a week ago and reiterate everything else we said about him at that time. Comment on the Webber political flip-flop is scarcely necessary. That gentleman's attemptel leadership of what must be termed the insurgent movement In the American party doubtless assuaged as-suaged the previous burden of solicitation for the future welfare of Salt Lake and the perpetuation of the American party, under which he has apparently appar-ently been laboring these many months. It is our earnest hope that the proposed mass meeting to be held Sunday evening at the Salt Lake Theatre under the auspices of the Woman's League for the purpose of starting a campaign "to clean up the city of vice and crime" will take place. It would be a great calamity should the good women fail to take advantage of the impetus of the Paden-Morning Redlight-Bishop Spalding-Agi-tator Reese tenderloin crusade. We are as anxious as any member of that organization to see Salt Lake clean from one end to the other of vice of every description, and we suggest that the ladies go right ahead and mop up the city. Tell the Mayor exactly where his plan for handling the social evil is wrong; show him just why, if left alone, he can never make it a success then give him in black and white, so that there can be no misunderstanding misunderstand-ing a better plan, worked out in detail and one that is practical and may be put into operation immediately, with the business and social interests inter-ests of the city thoroughly protected while the good work is being done, do this and there ought to be no friction and the lily with its nice coat of paint will dazzle the eyes of all the west. |