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Show WHEEDLERS ARE A WHEEDLIHG. Water Works and Bonding Cannot be Made a Party Issue. We understand that some persons per-sons are vainly endeavoring to promulgate the untruth that water works and city bonding will Iwt a national party issue in Brigham City. If any one tells you that, you may be pretty safe in concluding conclud-ing that that party is out on a jaunt to temporarily feather his own nest. We are informed that certain self-crowned Republican leaders of this city, in order to con ciliate the faint-hearted, the credulous credu-lous or the unlearned, are now blowing that they and their party will "down" water works, bonding and the Democrats and finally save the city from ruin and bondage. These same parties, if we mistake not, arc instrumental in bringing a costly law suit upon the necks of our people, only the least particle of which expense they expect to pay out of their own close pockets. But to the point. The best, the solidest and the most permanent and reliable Republicans of this city do not sanction this course. They are heart and soul in favor of water works. There are two Republicans Re-publicans in the Council, also. Democrats are fighting fight-ing the water works, too. Jones, a Director, and Jacobsen, the President, of the so-called "safety" society, both recently claiming to be staunch Democrats, are now opposing water works and paying out money to fight our City Council. Where, we candidly ask, can you draw the party lines? It cannot he done. This is a purely local issue and cannot successfully be dragged into politics, even to attain the supreme desire of the hearts of a choice few to tumble the city power into the ready hands of the sort of lawyers and storekeepers store-keepers the Bishop tells us about. |