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Show MATERIAL IS IMLM10V1NG. And if tho present system enables a bad man lo get his name on tho municipal ticket, it really doesn't bar a good man. The candidate material is improving. Hero is my other old friend, Governor Wolls, with his hat in tho ring and facing campaign breezes baroheaded, and having hlllo hair "on tho top of his head, tho place whero tho hair ought lo grow." But thon brains and baldness aro not strangers; nor is the heavy thatch testimony to talonl. I have known somo long-haired mon who didn't know enough to come out of tho rain; and oko somo baldheaded onos who wore sagacious. Thon there is Peter Droubay, a strong char-actor, char-actor, capable and consistent, with .especial oquipmont for Iho office Mr. Korns has held, becauso ho knows all about water which is tho chief problem for Salt Lake City. And there is Lester Frood who really isn't likoly to run, when it comos right down lo brass tacks. Lester could run tho wholo city. Could do il on less expense than now, and got bettor results. But ho would have to givo up a business that is making him more money than any commissioner can draw in salary from the city, and ho is just young enough to know that when ho gets out of city office if once ho got in he would havo a hard tnno reorganizing affiairs and gotting back lo Ihb smooth progress of the prosont. And also, thero is my other ld friend Stovo ' Lovo, baokod by a loaguo noilhor National nor America it is true; and yet a league with a corlain (joncroto strength concoalod about its person Stovo Love would mnko a mighty good cQmmissiQjnor.I don't boliovo ho wants the I place, and know, ho could take it only at the expense of a decided sacrifice. But if I owned Iho pity and was going lo hire a business man- ager, for it, I don't know a man on earth I would rather, hire, than this same clean, clover, competent com-petent citizen. And neithor do you. I'JJhpn ,J,ack Oroesbock is "mentioned." Mr. Grpeshpck- has proved his ability to well and truly, transact business for the public, for ho was.jpounty treasurer through a succession of yoavSji and quit with credit. What effect his candidacy for commissioner will have on that of Will Groesbock for auditor, I don't know. It would seem that one of them would to some degree lessen the chances of tho other. There isn't much danger, now. Tho candidate candi-date quality is improving. Tho city seems to bo saved again. |