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Show WHAT WILL ROBINSON DO? Help Settle Light Fight Satisfactorily To , , . The City, To Be Sure. "What will Major Koblnson doio-ward doio-ward settling the present electric light problem If re-elected" is a question with whcli the disgruntled '-Only' recent.y started a tirade of misrepresentation.- If it should bo inttmatctl wtiat his policy will be tl;c Journal would howl about the plant being dracged Irflo i5'olltllcs;,-lf It Is left to tlie Mayor.aud couucil'to adjust these affairs then the Juggler whines about a dcllnitu'lliic of pctlon not being announced. an-nounced. s It is trim that the electric light committee did recommend thr) purchase pur-chase of the Teliurldj system and they were led to believe, by the friends of that corporation that satisfactory arrangements could be made If t)ic matter were taken up before Mr. .Nunn. 'At that'tlmc the committee hoped to be"ablc to install a secojid unit and pay, at least in part, for tlie Tcllurldc system with power, or fall-'Ing.hi fall-'Ing.hi t)iat, they weio led to believe .thai' the- Tellurldc company would meet the city half way In the matter of accepting security for the unpaid amount; the city being unable to-make complete payment at tlrst. j, , . A .Little History: A meeting of the citizens was called at tie club rooms to djscusq tlie wjliole question and among the other fruitless fruit-less things said and d5ne there It was stated that probably some citizen Or citizens who stood on dosed terms with Mr. Nunn might succeed in getting get-ting friendly audience with that gentleman and hence accomplish what the present administration had not. VA committee consisting of Congressman Con-gressman Howell, Moses Thatcher and the Major was chosen by the 1 clcctiic light committee to wait on I Mr. Nunn. Mt. Thatcher lcfused to 'act. M. .1. Mallard was made a mem-I mem-I bor Ih his stead, A meeting was hejd In Salt Lake. Nothing was ' accomplished. accom-plished. Tlie only proposition the Tellurlde company could accept was I their otiglnal Investment with (1 per cent interest. If paid dowr, this I meant about $:i."i10001 If paid In Install ments it meant over MO.OOO. Tlie Tellurido people demandedsecurlty for thp' unpaid . amount. Thc cltj-could cltj-could 'riot' legalfy jjlve this secuiity. Several jvavs of raising security weio, referred to tl?o' attorney of the Tellurlde Tellu-rlde compariy. . Tile gentleman kept; tJie city waiting for aoouttwpmoriths for his opinion and then reported that he had lost the data refening to' tho case. It was plain play for time. Nunn's Threats. Mr. Nunn repeatedly stated that Logan would yet pay him his price In full, and with a long" franchlso In his position and a parttjf tho citUens or Logan playing to his hand it ceitalnly means that tho voters should stand pat and elect the ticket that will not assist tho company in, placing the people peo-ple In bondage to it. Joseph I'J. Catdon is simply the victim vic-tim of otheis and will be used to get votes that could not be gotten If the motive now concealed should be made known to the;' voters. Don't be misled, mis-led, you aic notjvptlng for Mr. Car-rion. Car-rion. fi? lr ' Tho republican party stands lieu to .purchase the Tellurido peoplo out Just as soon as icasonablo tcims can be reached, TJie pjant paid nearly $1500 during the last three months after paying expenses, lnteiest on the money Involved and making uxtcnsons In many pails of town. This in' tho face of competition and notwlthstand-the notwlthstand-the knockers. v The Proper Action. So Major lloblnson will likely ro commend that the city purchase thu Tellurido sjstein just as soon as the price asked Is reasonable aud in keeping keep-ing with what every citizen had a right to expect when the Tellurido companyfsaid that they would sell to tho city, as they had a "bettor market for tholrpowor." Tho TcU(i-rldo TcU(i-rldo peoplo would have been-, all right In the wliolo matter 'If ' locaf- parties had not misrepresented things and poisoned them against the administration. adminis-tration. This whole scheme has been planned for a jearor' two. The hope ami promise has been that the democrats demo-crats would get hi power this fall and then those uitfilcn'dit to the plant should iiaxc their Inning. Vote the lepubhcan ticket. The plant's all light, doing tine A vote for the lepubhcan ticket Is a vote for ourselves. A vote for the democratic ticket U a vote for those who call us rabble and think that the people have no right to own and conduct anj pio-pcrty pio-pcrty that ilch coiporatlous can fatten fat-ten on |