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Show THE NEXT CITY OFFICIALS. 1 The People's party have made their nominations, for city officers. Some of those nominated are very good menfor the places ; some are nothing at all, and some are anything but fit persons for any place in public life. To say that this ! ticket will be elected is like saying that two and two make four.' At the head of the ticket standsthe name of Frank Arm- ! strong, a man of means, experience in public affairs, shrewdness and deter- ! mination. No one would object to his nomination- but for his connection con-nection with the Hampton-Davenport-Field . business, but this makes him" . , objectionable, ;: The People's party have placed in nomination for City Marshal a man named Solomon, who has never enjoyed any public reputation until within a month or so. This reputation was made as a detective in the Hampton-Davenport-Fields business a most disreputable dis-reputable one, too. In that business he performed the part of a knot-hole witness, and Fubsequently, when the Davenport woman was arrested, he added to his laurels by becoming one of her bondsmen. bonds-men. These are his claims for public recognition, and bis party has recognized these claims by nominating him to one of the most important posts within their gift. . If this recognition is virtue rewarded, then it is easy virtue rewarded. re-warded. The man Solomon would have been permitted - to live and die . in ob scurity before, his party would have sought him out had it not been for his connection with the disreputaDle business busi-ness to which we alluded above. His great merit should be fully recognized, and as a result of such recognition he should run ahead of his ticket. If Marshal Mar-shal Phillips was dropped because he refused re-fused to lend his aid to the schemes in which Solomon figured, then such adrop is a genuine tribute to his decency. We congratulate the Marshal upon being better than his party. Those men whose names have been placed by the People's party upon the municipal ticket to be elected one week from 'to-day, and are worthy to fill public . stations, must know that their names were put thereby the same power which placed less worthy names upon that ticket, and that that power sports with them all to serve its own purpose, and that when it suits its purpose to drop their names they will be dropped as readily as some of their predecessors. Mr. Riter is to be returned to the City Council for the very same reason that he was so unceremoniously unceremoni-ously dropped from it because its suits the church dominant. Perhaps time will mend these matters, and that some day the merits of men will give them their sole claim to recognition, and that when such recognition is made it cannot be captiously captious-ly taken from them. But this day won't be so long as the Church is superior to the State in Utah. |