| Show 1 The People vs VB Bad City tu Government I lIE E voters of Salt Lake are face to face with a serious situation T THE Acceding to the universal demand of all classes the last Legislature ture enacted a c law pi providing for the commission fonn form of government This new law is now ow in effect effect ef ef- f- f so O. O far as us election machinery is concerned Those elected under this law will take tak office on the first of the year year w when en a new order of things will come in place of the present form fonn of administration The people are confronted on the one hand with six candidates who are arc th the creatures of bad government the offspring ring of a corrupt political machine that has been in process of construction during all an of the years of Bransford rule ruta This machine machine ma ma- chine steam its way through a convention and nominated a ticket that stands before the people today asking Raking Zt for support It is unquestionably the thc exponent exponent exponent expo expo- nent of the form of city government that has been discarded the thc exemplification of all aU that is undesirable in municipal rule role Back of these candidates s on the Bransford party ticket is a powerful organization tion Lion maintained at the he expense of the taxpayers an an organization that subsists upon the patronage doled out by various captains of plunder who will stop at nothing to continue in power this Tammany like society for the l perpetuity of b graft Working b with this small army anny of paid by the taxpayers' taxpayers money is a campaign organization organization organization which has a a great fund of money provided by favored contractors and uld others who will derive direct or indirect benefits through continuance in power of the thc Bransford party Upon the other hand the people have la c an au opportunity to vote for men nICH Out of the situation created by the Legislature has grown brown a powerful demand for goo good government government gov gov- which means different government Prom From all classes creeds and lines of from business business from the masses has manes-has has come a universal cry for change Typifying that sentiment sentiment sentiment sen sen- is the Citizens' Citizens ticket the very er r offspring of civic cleanliness exponents of righteous rule actually the creatures of this higher thought in civic ic progress The time being ripe for the operation of the new form of government it is Ipso also ripe forn for forthe the election electron n of men who will win make the most of this law men who among other things will cast off the prevailing impression that it is better hetter to 1 pay pay a n. contractors contractor's warrant and keep him hinl in good humor than to hurt the contractors contractor's feelings b by delay delay- The election of the Bransford ticket means that the thc efforts of the advocates of better better bet bet- ter civic rule which crystallized in the passage of the commission form fonn of government bet I will be he vitiated and that the same old band hand of politicians will be on the job to rob the new law of all the virtues it possesses by perpetuating the methods s that have made the Bransford administration a n byword for extravagance non enforcement of the law a exorbitance exorbitance exorbitance ex ex- ex- ex in public contract prices corruption and aud conspicuous incompetency n nAmon Amon Among the the arguments made by the Bransford party's chief organ is the sill silly y declaration that if the Citizens' Citizens candidates are elected next r Tuesday real estate in Salt Lake cannot be bc sold and everybody will viII move Ino away because conditions are bad It may be reas reasonably inferred from that bit of balderdash that if any real estate owner owner own own- er ei moves away he will win give gi away his property g e rt because there won wont won't t 1 be he pe a n. market for it The Bransford party u is ic s in such bad straits strait that its professional are frothing at the mouth for some tangible excuse upon which the time people can call justify a a. l vote for the Bransford ticket So utterly inane is any argument that may be he advanced regarding the values of real estate providing the Citizens' Citizens ticket wins that it need r o only ly be he recalled that immediately after one of the most decisive lickings the American party ever received in Salt Lake the biggest bb real estate boom in the history of the west struck this mountain metropolis and the largest individual realty realty- deal was swung Certainly there can be no DO stock taken in any silly of the Bransford party organs to the effect the men on the Citizens' Citizens Partisan Non-Partisan ticket are incapable of rendering g good service All of them are good business m men men n all are property owners all of them have been successful They are honest upright t intelligent men who carry weight i in the community ity At A the time head of the ticket stands Mr Ir Park against whom an unfair indecent attack is b being ing centered The Time same n old policy of bludgeoning bludgeon bludgeon- ing lug those who will rill not bear the Bransford brand is being pursued with a vengeance in hi his bis case cas but it is neither making votes nor finding g s sympathizers The paramount issue in this campaign is civic rule and the only issue worth discussing discussing dis dis- n cussing cussing- g among intelligent people The situation is clearly r defined on defined on the one hand the Bransford party stands for a continuance of the time bad government now nov in vo vogue ue and on the other stand men Inen of unquestioned fitness for the task of molding mg this new I form of government into an agency for civi civic betterment |
