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Show I CANDIDATES FOR MAYOR AND OTHER CITY OFFICES ARE ANNOUNCING THEIR POLICIES L ..'p to the present the municipal it campaign in Ogden has been an ex-It ceptlonally quiet one, but from now j on politics expected tn .irm up. I I During the week A. F Larson, audi- l' f tor, has made known his candidacy. I' ) eeking re-plection to ihe office h A rumor has been widely circulated c M that A R. Hey wood is being urged by his friends to again aspire to the of- j ilce of mayor; ! maj be induced to ' run. Y J Parker, senator From Weber ' eounty, is among the prospective can- p dldates, although he has not openly 1 stated that he is ambitious in that di- T. Samuel Browning, the present : mayor, has not declared himself I. N. Pierce has a following but he I has not aggressively stated his posl- ( D. N Wheeler is the candidate for 1 mayor indorsed by the unions and his y t anning mate is George Crosby. Trank Francis, editor of The Standard Stand-ard for man years, ha- announced ' his candidacy for mayor and has set ' i"tth his principles, on the following: j1 W ' I am for a reduction in taxes trd believe a number ol wide, sweeping ' economies can be inaugurated. Ft r 1 roan tax reductions have been prom- ' ; i -u. but taxes continue to go higher r lad higher, even out of proportion to m h highet prices which prevail. "1 find that one of the greatest rai nu'' producers has been the Water-1 works. I am in favor of annexing i another revenue producer in the form of a municipal electric light system. J H The first st. .j, in this direction should f be a distributing ostein. One ob-, M (i. to the obtaining of this adi i i i th long-term, blanket nan-j' his., granted by th. it to th- 1 i.-li r Power v Light company six jraan ico. J -nd this franchise nin be the lubject I of much discussion during this cum- 1 aign Ogdea should have its own lighting s)M'm. and I uill do my ut- ' most to bring that about, ij "I notice on south Washington nve- !; nue. after the paving has been laid ft nearly two years, the street car eom- 4 Danj has the ogntef of its tracks un- a paved and tilled with broken stone and 1 other material. If 1 were mayor there there would be no discrimination of J this kind allowed. I recognize that ft ihe street car company has been lab- j "ring under heavy financial burden.- in giving to Ogdeo an excellent ser- I vice without increasing rates, but ill 3 a great mistake for a municipality H to show a weakness in enforcing the Hf vact letter of th.- law 111 dealing with V little or big Inter. -t it the street! j ar people are not financially in a H position to pae their strip through! 1 'he paved district, the city sbou'd make provisions to finance the pavir.g IK in the sam mannei that small prop-art) prop-art) owners are carried. Confidence Hl in. a city government is maintained or Hf weakened In Just the degree that men in office are firmly for the Impartial 1 tieatment of everyone. Popular con-ltdenco con-ltdenco in constituted authority makes .I Mo.-he ism Impossible t "Our police forco is disorganize. 1 o l'a.th the police and fire departments' H'l should be reorganized and some form H of civil pcrvico inaugurated, so that! 9 men 'n Into the work should not1 ihe pawns in the game of politics. Both I departments should be divorced from polities. Those in the service should be allowed to work from the bottom I up, and in that way our chiefs of no-lice no-lice and our fire chiefs should be de 1 eloped, fiee tiotn all inlluences not of the best. I have promised no position to anyone I hae made no entangling alliances, al-liances, if I go into office, I will b. obligated to no one other than the people peo-ple as a whole, and everything I do Will be in the light of pubiic guidance and m; own Judgment of what is riein "Some of my declarations of policy may bring mc opposition which I mlghi avoid by discreet silence, but I want no one to vote for me under a misapprehension misap-prehension aa to my attitude on public ;ues(ions." Captain J. R Ward la aspiring to the office "f city commissioner. He was with the Ogden boys in the war and saw service in France. Claude Moyes, county clerk at the court house, tomorrow will announce himself as a candidal for the position posi-tion of city auditor. It is also reported that Miles L. 1 Jones. cit minniissioncr, will an-aounci an-aounci himself on Honda a e?n-Idldate e?n-Idldate for re-election to the position jof city commissioner. |
