Show DEMOCRATS AGAINST PUBLIC IM PROVE MENTS the party has come out against further street improvements it tho democrats arc elected public improvements will stop because they are opposed to the expenditure of city money for that purpose here is what their platform says in speaking about street improvements the expenditure of the cites finances in such matters has become a burden upon the taxpayers beyond any necessity shall the city stop now and go backward when has there been a more substantial growth in ogden city than tor the last four years shall it be stopped shall the word go out to all the world that ogden city has condemned her public improvements and will stop them or shall the public ba notified that ogden still continues to prosper and improve her city streets why did the sammons hardware company of st louis decide to build anat great warehouse now being erected on wall street in ogden city because E E stewart showed the proprietors of the firm the improvements made during the last four years in ogden and the president of the company said such substantial improvement would make a city out of ogden and that it was good enough tor their western branch house it the good work of the past four years Is continued for two years longer ogden city will lead salt lake city and be the best improved city in the intermountain inter mountain country Is that worth something to ogden and her people it is exactly that which will put ogden ahead of salt lake city what taxpayer has been burdened with the street improvements why the present republican city government has reduced the city taxes one half mill on the dollar when the present republicans came into office they found the democratic tax was 10 mills each year for the past four years why could the tax be burdensome when it Is less than the democrats charged think of it the democrats had a higher tax rate but made no improvements at all the republicans reduce the tax rate and spend per year on the streets what did toe democrats do with that which the republicans put in the macadam iced street what will they do with the money when they get back into office dont forget that the democrats left a debt of which the republicans have paid what asses the democratic politicians make of themselves think of 1 tour years ot republican rule shows forty blocks macadamized tor which the abutting property holders paid nothing and the democrats had a larger tax rate and six years of rule and only macadam iced one block and the republicans even that one block but some democrats will howl and say oh you republicans got more fines out of gamblers and slot machines than we democrats did well whose fault is that there were more gamblers and slot machines in ogden under democratic rule than under republican rule why did the democrats fail to fine gamblers and slot machine operators why they say one george washington jones who controlled the last democratic government had the matter arranged tobis satisfaction well he was a democrat so was the mayor at that time one democrat said yesterday why the present mayor has everything fined from a card table to a roulette ahel why not the fines all go into tho city treasury under republican rule they did not always do it under tho right hon geo washington jones administration when mark hanna was elected chairman after president McKinIe ys resignation ho told the people to stand pat when teddy roosevelt was nom he said president roosevelt would follow atre plans of president and again hanaa said stand pat ogden city has improved more during tho last four years thanin the previous forty years and the republican party in its platform pledges its honor that rudolph kuchler will follow the plans outlined by mayor glasmann therefore we say to tho people of ogden stand pat let well enough alone stand pat |