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Show WE CALL THE BLUFF. The Ogden Examiner, the franchise-defending franchise-defending newspaper of Ogden, in the foregoing statement misstates when it Bays that the Standard has been trying to inject the personality of its publisher into this campaign. Not once has the Standard made a comparison com-parison between the so-called last Glasmnnn administration and tho present city administration, and there has been no intention to make any such comparison. Mr. Glasmann asks nothing from the people, is not and will not be a candidate for any office this fall. The Examiner knows this, but it insists on making the publisher pub-lisher of this paper an issue in order to draw the voters' attention away from the unjust, unfair and blundering blunder-ing action In giving away the electric elec-tric and gas franchises for a period of fifty years. The Examiner is simply trying to cloud the eyes of the people, but we think It will fail. The last so-called Glasmann administration admin-istration consisted of ten city coun-cllmen coun-cllmen and one mayor who conducted the city affairs. Two of the present commissioners, T. Samuel Browning and Christian Flygaro, were members of the city council and had two votes to the mayor's one vote, and Browning Brown-ing was president of the council and had more power in creating legislation legisla-tion during the last GlaSmann administration admin-istration than the mayor had. So, Mr. Examiner, make good your threat. Here are tlie- city councilmen you threaten to attack: City Council of 1910 and 1911. T Samuel Browning, President. Christian Flygare. C. J. Humphries. J. II. Larson. Horace E. Peery. J. J. Barker. v George W. Wilson. John W. Austin. Dr. George A. Dickson. Joseph B. Dana. J. H. DeVIne, city attorney. "William Glasmann, mayor. These men made the record and must assume the responsibility of the 15)10 and 1911 city government Jump on them, Mr. Examiner. They are the people who granted tho franchise which reserved to tho city tho exclusive exclu-sive right to fix rates and make tho light company pay a fair price for tho use of the streets and reserved tho right to buy tho plant of the light company at the cost of reproducing its plant twenty years from this time, which the present city commissioners commission-ers repealed, for and In consideration of a ten per cent reduction, though the city then had the right to reduce -the rates from three to five times that much Very well, Mr. Examiner, we call your bluff. You say you will make Mr. Glasmann the issue and show him up. We call you "We think we can show up the PERSONAL sido of somo in tho present city government that will make your hair stand straight up. In the words of Shakespeare, "Lead on, McDuff, and damned bo he who first cries, hold, enough!" . nn |