Show V NOT TilE THE AMERICAN X It I Is oily folly to pretend th that t the American party part Is d doing or ha has done an any good for Ra Salt Salt Lake One doesn't especially enjoy gloating over th the defeat of a neighbor But nUL the American party has been a very sad failure a II The failure Is so o t ter the sadness ness so complete complete com corn that you wi will ob observe erve the street commissioner oner of or that party hn haJj been openly anti and mercilessly condemned by bythe bythe r the new l' l or which Is hl his hii newspaper organ nn responsible for or presence In office And the street commissioner er in th these e times I ia Is Isa a ver very Important man The American party palt won an election In the city at atthe atthe j the November No voting In But nut the th thuc succeeding uc year was the dullest that has lutR ever come t to t tho th experience of real estate men of Salt Snit Lake Ab Absolutely I It was wa va dead There was vas nothing doing And within a month after the Republican cnn election o of November 1906 there came tho the biggest real estate deals Fl known wn in the history of Salt Lal Lake c In n some respects they r hn have not been equaled Ii In the rhe story of any Western city The school election of December r i 1906 clinched the result of tho 10 county election n. n and not a ward ward wardin In the city returned a can candidate of 01 the American party In one I war ward by the thc clever device o of In Indorsing the nominee o of oftie the tie Republicans the new party e escaped a d defeat f But nut they got nothing with any candidate of their own Now ow this advance in n real estate acU the present ent season ea was nOl not wholly holly the re result of the l Republican el election of course In a general way men know It is safe atc to follow olf w where the Republicans win And It was Something of oC an nn ITI a assured advance when tho the Grand ran Old Party proved Its It- control of oC the co county nt and the city ity Properly IY speaking pE business men base baso their Investments n bus cs conditions rather than on politics But one ne net t thI thing In Is certain They did ditl n not l make any Newhouse e pur purchases a el from the time time the Am American ri n party won the city city u until the the time when 11 en that party met Its cru crushing defeat defeat No good r may ay f come othe l e to Salt l Lake Lak n dont don't f 1 rv make e yourself ridiculous by hy claiming th that If is attributable un le leto to the American party I 1 J r ft W rn |