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Show The Primaries And The Election THE result of the primaries is full known. In one sense it is most satisfactory. Mayor Bransford stands vindicated in the eyes of the people of this city. All the abuse which has been hurled at him has been in vain; a mighty contingent of all the voters have in effect certified certi-fied their faith in him, indirectly they have expressed ex-pressed their opinion of his shameless traducers. The fire upon him has been as hot as was that which surrounded Shadraclc, Meshach and Abed-nego Abed-nego in the fiercy furnace, and like them he has emerged with no smell of fire upon him. But it is disappointing that so many voters neglected to vote at the primary. It shows how careless people sometimes become, even when their own vital interests are at stake. But the field is now cleared. We know now just who are to be voted for a week from Tuesday, Tues-day, and every American party "man should be -a j committee oLone to work for his ticket up to that day. The men to be eleotedfmayor'and commissioners will have vast power In their hands, and they should be the men who will have but the one motive while attending to the details de-tails of government, to keep all the time in thought the forward march of the city along all right lines. To judge which are rost likely to do this, we have but to remember what party gave Salt Lake its real awakening and has ever since Kept it moving onward and upward; and to remember also how fierce has been the venomous effort to neutralize that party's work. With that unsavory crowd the effort will bo intensified to beat If possible tho American party candidates. We can anticipate the mendacity that will be called, the vituperation that will be hurled, for the cowardly scoundrels have no other weapons. Against these the American party offer of-fer as evidence in its favor, ,rJiat it has done; the transformation that it has made possible here; tho advanced values to property owners; the increased in-creased business; the increased comforts that come of paved streets and walks, the increased sanitary regulations and precautions which have so lowered the comparative death rate, and above all it is a lasting pity that the members of wago earnes six years ago and tho number now employed em-ployed cannot be reduced to figures, and pasted on every dead wall in the ciby. That alone would decide the election. There must be no relaxation of effort, and if there is not tho American ticket will sweep the field. |