Show I o C Council Will Will Enact St Street Rail Railway ay Ordinance Monday Monday Night I i. i i T The IC city committee of tic fIe Kearns Kearus party has commanded the city council to enact the street railway ordinance next Monday night And Lh the I council majority controlled by the thc Kearns crowd has promised to obey It will be the same franchise in ill substance that the company asked for a year ago The have been frightened by The Republicans Republican's rebuke rebuke rebuke re re- re- re buke of their dilatory course in the matter and the consequent public protest from every part of the city Three weeks ago in ill face of the company's i statement that the franchise a aj amended by the council would not be accepted the Tribune declared that the franchise would be accepted that it should be accepted and accepted and that the Ke city authorities were asking for concessions from the company in the interest of the people AND YET FOR MONTHS IT HAS BEEN COMMONLY ADMITTED AMONG THE THAT THE COUNCIL WAS ONLY PLAYING POLITICS AND THE ORDINANCE AS ORIGINALLY DRAFTED BY THE COMPANY A YEAR AGO WOULD BE PASSED IMMEDIATELY AFTER ELECTION That program has been abandoned because of the furious rebuke of the people consequent upon this papers paper's plain statement of the councils council's wicked delay in coming conling- to terms with the company The city committee sees that its scheme is uncovered and it hurries to issue orders to the council coun coun- cil Those orders are Pass that ordinance next Monday night And the servile pledge-bound pledge council has promised to obey Nearly a year ago the company asked for a franchise The terms tenus then tendered are the terms that will be accepted by the frightened frig council next Monday night If that franchise had been granted when first asked for more than one extension of the street car lines would today be in operation Men who have built homes to the north and to the east in the reasonable expectation that the proposed lines would reach them this summer will have no street car service through the entire coming winter-BECAUSE winter THE KEARN SITE CITY COUNCIL PLAYED POLITICS AND DEMANDED GREASING BEFORE THE FRANCHISE COULD BE SECURED The city committee of the Kearns earns party and the Tribune have been loudly cla claiming an activity in the peoples people's interests by holding holding- off that franchise for a year constantly refusing to meet with representatives ves of the company and as constantly boasting of the concessions they demanded demand demand- 1 ed And all the time they were admitting among themselves that since they could not force any shakedown from the company the ordinance would be passed and the franchise granted immediately after election IN THE EXACT TERMS REQUESTED BY THE COMPANY IN THE FIRST 0 PLACE The city committee and not the city council is in control It has managed that delay and on its orders the delay is terminated And if the people re-elect re the Kearns ticket in November they will again put the control of the city into the hands of the same city committee which dictates to the thc council and which is responsible for a years year's delay in the improvements which for a year the company has ha been ready to maker make Argument against the Kearns crowd multiplies every hour of or the day r i 1 |