| Show OT or A t TO UK ng 0 or OI j I j i Probably Councilman Martin swore more wisely than tiun v i r he hp knew w when ho consigned his official brethren to torA tor- tor I. I A merit nt at nt the tIo committee ommittee c meeting of Thursday night Not 3 been USA o ho lie told them but because th they have Il h by their y r acts consigned themselves the they will vIlI probably go there At t Ati i ti th samo It Is to be ue r regretted that a councilman of this cit city should so far forget fOlget himself antI and all that is js due duet t th tho community he lie In part represents Ho lie has lias rather f unpleasantly distinguished himself in the past both past both by ri words and h by blows blow It is Js not to the credit of Salt Lake that vile lie anti and that ho should e have used profane I th th council chamber chamb chamber and and r-and and remained of oC it H. By the tho wa way is there anything left of oC which the leaders lead lead- be he proud prouI ers of oC tho the American party palt ma may Many Inn of the best befit men and women of or tho the city were C once once mice members and supporters support rs of that party They went to tot t If It because they thy believed d Its promises of if more ennobling r government o of f a higher grade of public and private conduct conr con con- of the law Jaw better belter adminis adminis- l duct a better observance a i. i of oC tho the city's aITa Now ow and then we Imagine those good men and women look Jook over their party assets asset and wonder if It they are are as ns nearly solvent as the they were wore when hen the party was organized For one thing thing- there Js Is Councilman Martin of oC whom the they have no reason to 1 be proud heri it will be remembered that the tho American party officials and the American party newspapers were strong stron in advocacy cy of the pliz t fights which Jim Donaldson an and Councilman Mulvey tried to pull 0 off oW hero last year It will bo be conc conceded ded that the them American m rican party officials and anti ml i newspapers have haye been strong in defense defenso of Donaldson Donald Donald- son arid B Bell H the O'Briens and the rest Iest of or tho the bunco Cang which stripped tho the of or ten thousand giving back no one iio th thousand vand escaping l even evert a n a rebuke kc from the authorities commissioned b by the American Ameri Amen can party part It will b bo hc remembered that the elt city officials ls made mulo not the slightest effort to capture the culprits 1 in that case and anel that every c move has been imposed on the county authorities with tho the police force now no representing represent represent- ing the he American party active in warning warning- Bell Dell an and the rest rest of or the culprits wherever they ma may be 1 It will wilt bo be remembered we we think with chagrin that chagrin that th American in the of seeking a apolitical American party was put position political al control of or the public schools at the election last D December ember Th The Thc fight against partisan non-partisan control was made a distinctively el American party par am And it fl itis I is equally clear that even cven toda today the American party parly Influence in influence In- In fluence is actively at work to defeat the movement for tho the needed much new school hool houses housea It will be observed b by the better belter element clement of oC that American party which promised so much that tho the Sunda Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- da day saloons have haYe been allowed to run run without molestation molestation molesta molesta- tion ion excepting on those occasional show dates when tho the display of or temporary law enforcement was made for fora fora a a single Ingle Sunday and then abandoned abandon ell It will be remembered b by the more substantial class I of r men men and women who joined Iho tho American party that there is 19 a most Incompetent and lot lot of or men In Int t city office that tho the affairs of or the public interest have ave been I I grossly m mismanaged in every department It Il will be noted b by every Clr one ne who reads the papers that crime particularly crime particularly the crime of robbery robbery robbery-Is Is amazingly Ingy frequent here In the city The Tho shabby excuse is offered that a confidence man Is at Hbert liberty But But that should not bo ho a tt sufficient reason For If IC is I committing ng the crimes or If the police nolice have an any evidence against him the they can easily lock him up and so e escape ape the necessity of pleading that their theIr hands are abs are tied ted t I d b by dark darl and anti h by ly daylight dalIght are alarmingly common com com- L mon and captures are arc so Infrequent as to indicate a condition con con- 7 i of or hopeless disorganization or culpable Indifference In tho part of or the police t J Salt Halt Lake Lako Is lit so o good a n city there are aro so man many ex excellent ex ox- o here there is so line fine a n future for It and Wi j f for f t thi the tho Rt state t that one does docs not like 1110 to enumerate the tie j abject failure the American n party part has made In the short t. t and unfortunate period of or its control i But surely the best besl men and women women who have ha graced t its membership rolls with their names can not bo he proud of or If the a. a association They can not defend the tho record of s I t They were promised much They havo have loen joen given 1 no nothing they had a n right to 10 expect They have hav been deceived de do- ln In in the work of ot er e every department and must apologize apolo gize gizo all all along t the tho o line in n what wa way could the control havo have been worse |
