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Show THE COMMISSION ELECTION. ThiB journal has no desire to add unnecessarily unneces-sarily to the burdens of the true Americans and free thinking voters who peruse its columns and for that reason, we refrain from commenting at length at this time on the preliminary rounds now" being staged almost nightly of the fight for official party candidacies for the positions of commissioners and mayor of Salt Lake under the new form of commission government which goes into effect here after next November. Wie experience just as tired a feeling over a Mormon or Jack iMormon police force, street department, etc., as the next American, but it . is rather difficult to discover in the croakingo of a select coterie of what-to-hold-office politic ians, any cause for immediate excitement. The situation is peculiar, It is true, and there are going to be some keen disappointments before and after election day unless indications are mightily awry. It is more than possible that the situation will resolve itself into the nomination of a good strong ticket by a combination of the butt elements ele-ments in the community that will be pretty nearly near-ly assured of election. Certain it is, in any event, that a ticket of politicians who think they haven't been sufficiently reimbursed for their labors, regardless of their party faith, will not receive the support this fall that can right now be promised to the ticket of a different character. char-acter. There is too much at stake for the political politi-cal tricksters who are maneuvering for election to receive the support of the rank and file of their own parties. The average voter realizes fully, the opportunity the new form of city government gov-ernment is going to afford those who go into office to build up a political machine which would probably last with the ages, if they are of that disposition and proclivity. It becomes more and more obvious as the days slip along td the dates set for the various party conventions that unless the strong men of each party are put on the party tickets men whose integrity and ability are unquestioned and in whom voters can feel confident of having commissioners com-missioners and a mayor who will give the commission com-mission form of government a fair, square trial those party tickets will not receive the support of their respective adherents. And this is exactly as it should be. What an amusing incident it would be, should the law making the coming election necessary result re-sult in the putting Into office of a ticket of big, strong business men whose work and interest would be really for the city and its growth and betterment! What a boomerang for the federal gang that railroaded the bill for commission government gov-ernment through their tied-and-delivered package of a legislature. Let no one make the mistake that the federal tricksters are not going to make the effort of their lives to put their hirelings in office. The campaign will be short and hot, that part of it which is to be fought in the open, for already the knives are out and the skulkers busy in the by-ways, eliminating those of all parties whom their masters decree must be put out of the running for the good of the cause. The American party is apparently encumbered encumber-ed with its full share of hangers-on who aye making an effort to so manipulate committee meetings that their names shall come before the voters as bona fide selections by the American party for candidates. If they are successful, it will mean little or nothing for them, for unquestionably unques-tionably If the party ticket is not to their liking the voters of the party will quickly turn to a stronger business men'B or independent ticket and elect it. |
