The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
SAM gibson LAUGHS.
What He Thinks of the Numer.
GUS Kicking Liberals.
COMPLAINTS ARE GRoUNDLEss.
What the Great Party of Broad American
Ideas Is Doing for the City-0ffi-
Gals Must be Educated.

] am laughing. 1 have right to laugh.
have no sympathy for you. You told me
time and time again you would vote for a
yellow dog if it was a candidate on the
Liberal ticket. Did you do SO. Echo an
swers. L am laughing, not at the yellow
dogs, but at you. 1 did not vote for any
yellow dogs and l am laughing. my life,
if necessary, for the support Of Liberal
principles, but no vote for the leaders of
this burlesque carpet bag parody on Liberal
ism" Therefore [ laugh. Now do not
understand me to say that the officers
elected are at all like yellow dogs, far from
ii. They are just like men. / never cast
odium on the lower animals, yet / laugh.
not at the officers because they evidently
have the laugh on the confiding carpet
baggers'' who wanted TO vote for the yell
low dog or any one else that the dog with
the brass collar marked 100000 should
designate. Now l am laughing at you
you who tramped through mud and rain,
who were blinded by red and green fire,
Roman candles and pretty uniforms; you
tax payers, you who could afford to pay
large sums Of money to carpet bagger'
TO dishonesty elect men to Office who you
now wish were IL -, well, where
there is no ice IN January. You
are the individuals who are the sub
ecus Of my hilarity. You deserve
10 be laughed at by al men, and the yell
low dogs should also laugh, but they can't
They are not built that way But let US
be serious and examine this subject calmly
and see If there is any cause of complaint
or II you have any kick coming. While l
laugh at your misery, I can see nothing
wrong with the city officials. They seem
TO be all nice honorable men, and they ali
lid their part in the campaign. You don't
like the grand old carpet bag Liberal party
What is the matter with you. You must
have been disappointed in getting a posi-
tlon-or nave you sold yourself for NASTY
Mormon gold!n Anyone who will not sup
port the Liberal party should be sent out
with the brand OF Cain upon him. What
mean, contemplate man you must be, to
be sure You should be drnmmed into the
Mormon camp to the tune of the
''Rague's March, You should be COM
PEELED TO join that 'un-American gang
of priest-ridden dupes who must
vote as the leaders direct or be forever de-
prlved Of the right TO do as you please u
That you have no right to belong to the
party of ''broad American ideas" which
for twenty years has been battling for in
dividual liberty and to divorce Church and
state. "A man who would desert the Lib
eral party now deserves the contempt of
all men" Yes, certainly. You are sub
lect for contempt, you low Sanpete sewer
digging scrub. You never was Liberal
anyway, don't believe. What do you SUP
pose, you past grand master of mesnness,
would this city have been had it not been
for the carpet baggerss Why, you I'M
grateful fellow, don't you know that aliens
would have been naturaliZe6 Just the same
as in other places if we had not have had an
lass toot" Judge on the bench? He could
at glance see the point and stopped those
lawoefying, priest ridden aliens from be
coming citizens. 1t is said that he at one
time came within one Of giving man who
had been elected his Office. There is no use
talking, he figures close on these
problems. The fellow was foolish.
He had no right to be born in Utah.
Anyway getting there within one is
pretty good-for him. Why, if 1t was not
Tor the Liberal judges, commission, gov
ernor, registrars, marshals, election
judges, spies and hired manipulators we
would not have been able to have elected
men for you to kick at for at least two
years to come. Think of that. Go over to
the party which compels their dupes 10 vote
as they direct, Will stay with the Ameri-
can party, the liberty loving party OF pro
gress, the party that gives every man the
right TO vote as he pleases. / would not
even associate or speak to such men as YOU
are. A man who caunot even vote or think
without asking the permission of the
church | have no use for. "a man who
will not support the Liberal party should
be kicked into the enemies camp by a
burro" You lank hungry wolf, your talk
Of reform. Well, that is rich, don't YOU
know the Liberal party draws the line Al
reform! 1t is not reform we want il is
change. The old ''villianous un-Americar
law defying priest ridden party cannot be
reformed" They cannot be Americans
unless they make up their minds to vote
for the Liberal candidates. Otherwise we
will have them disfranchised. Some OF the
officers fcan not be up in bookkeeping Il
the standard necessary to keep deficiency
balance without profit and loss account
This lack of business ability is balanced By
knowing how to conduct a car or
the Rio Grande Western to supply
voters for the contingency depart.
ment of his royal nibs. You have all kind,
of men in Office, from the high pressure
psalm singer to the peephole gambler. Al
classes of men have their representatives
in the city government. Now, where doe:
your kick come ing Is it because they have
spent 5000, 600 of your money? What non
sense! Did not Brigham Young eat Die
and drink wine and have it charged to the
city thirty years ago! %. w. z. IS speech
in the theatre Certainly he did, and the
old city officers gave several receptions
before many Of you were born. You Ger
tainly have no kick on that score What
business have you to grumbIe If these city
officials did agree to give you all the water
YOU wanted (before they were elected)
and changed their minds and are giving Won
more whisky than you ever expected
There can certainly be no grounds of com
plant in that. If next season is dry, can't
YOU all go to the mountain canon on a pic
mic during the dry weather? What is the
matter nowl see great many chewing
the rag'' about the taxes. Well, what Il
the taxes were raised 300 per cent; what
does that signifys Don't you know tina,
that beggariy little sum OF S250OOO left in
the treasury by those law -defying Mormon
scoundrels who ate pie at the city's expense
vanished within three months after the
election, and how do you suppose
that the city expenses could be paid
unless by increased taxation? DON'T finC
fault on that score. 1t viii be doubled nex-
year. and then it will be in order to have 2
committee TO sit and reduce the property
valuation at least l cent on each 500.
will use my influence to that end, but YOU
have no right to kick now. What's the
matter with the streets! The electric rail.
way companies have a right to put up al
the poles and wires they want to. Have
they not the right from the city to make
dead forests in the streets. They pay Z
license, don't they! Don't drink so often.
and you can walk through the streets with
out falling against pole. Teams are MOI
necessary now, we have street railways In
abundance. You make me tired Are mo-
the streets of the same width they were
1t is true commercial street is not paved
Asl a..
hot enough to melt the home product, Their
if they don't give you fine street pave.
ment, why-well, well, well it will prob
ably be as good as it was under ''priestly,
un- American rule" What do you know
about grading streets, any howe Most OF