Show tan the duly of july 26 THOSE CITY LANDS we take it eliat the person who writes campaign leaders for our morning contemporary is deaf to the addico of liis political friends blind to the interests which his pen ludicrously pretends to serve and lame in correcting a blunder when it at last has been hammered into him to this bad combination of physical deformities ve may add the mental weakness which causes him to regard himself as the see all know all and be all of the press and politics in gene raland matters in ogden city and the political doings of the liberal party in particular we desire in alt kindness therefore to invite his attention while we further explain the financial part of the reckoning he is now so completely surfeited with yesterday we told him what the peoples city council left to show for the money which had come into their fiands it he biad read TUB as carefully six months ago as ho does today to day he would have known without our repeating it what the show ing was lie would also have known as alie intelligent and respectable portion of the liberal party know eliat the record of the last city council was one of exceeding merit and eliat aa mayor kiesel felicitously expressed it the ne w officials coald not do belter than imitate them in alie economical administration of the of the city then alio party would not now be bewailing alie stupidity of its in demanding explanations from which it draws no profit and making assertions choso whoso effect is to add to the strength of its opposition the sale of city land lias been or a topic upon which the said editor has drawn largely tor the peculiar comfort lie has made for him belf he asserts aad repeats and reiterates that worth of land was sold for if his cearing is correct what does it prove simply that city land las risen in value like private land only not quite 60 list it brought all that it waa worth at the time and many liberals who thought of baying turned away in disgust at learning the prices demanded considering si them too hiigli the council had no friends to favor no enemies to discriminate against we call attention to a public notice that was published for at least six months in the columns of THE STANDARD bearing directly upon this subject |