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Show i Now See To The Primaries , npHE primary election will be on Tuesday next df and will pretty nearly decide the real elec- $1 tion which will come later. If only men were V to be considered, the men who by their past lives and acts would offer most guarantees of a dead I straight and capable administration of the busl- i ; ness of the city there would be no doubt of tho Hf election of the whole American party Icket. H' But just now the shibboleth of the opposi ion H is "anything to beat the Am rkan party" and f hence every American party voter should be on B hand to snow under the combined opposition on f Uuesday next. BL There is really but one main question to be H . decided,; that,Js 'JSHalf the government continue HI Which has transformed Salt Lake in less than six Hf years," which has done more to repress vice and HI crime than was done in the previous half cen- Rj tury; which has caused real estate to increase 40 Hf per cent in value; or shall there be a return to HI that period when all the revenues of the city were HI1 absorbed by the office holders; when no public Hk improvements that can today be pointed out, Hjr were made; when the streets were a cloud of mS dust in summer and a slough of despond in the V, winter; when there was not one decent public H school nor one decent public school house in the R city; when the police force was made up in great H part of ruffians; when the only restriction Hj placed on any of the vices was that they pay H license promptly, and when crime had no fears j of punishment? HL Many of our public officers have been assailed I by a pair of utterly unscrupulous newspapers, but the result has been to strengthen them before the people; some good men and women have cried outdemanding what has been impossible of achievement though tried three thousand times a year for the past three thousand years; but when these calmly measure what candidates now before the people, will be most able to give the city a clean and progressive government, they will not want to throw their votes away and will M most of them vote the American ticket. The great Hi body of business men have already expressed K J their preferences by tho petitions they have sign- KM oclf for above all the clamor the fact stands out K?J clear that the defeat of the American party would Kh give Salt Lake so black an eye, and so paralyze i the industries of tho city, that it would result in a depreciation of property and prestige that would hurt every property-holder within its limits. Prior to tho election which first placed the I American party in power, we told the voters that KvJj tne success of the party would add 10 per cent 1HHHHHI to the property values of the city. It added quite 20 per cent. If the party this year should be defeated It would cause property to depreciate 10 per cent, and if we are as poor a prophet as we were six years ago, it would be more liable to be 20 than 10 per cent. |