Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-01-03
REQUEST THEM To STEP OUT.

ZenS ntlI last
,pa of the h, aghy signs OF the
times. It awakened new hopes !"
an. minds of msny of the most re-
spectable an / Upright people oil th's
c,tv that the hde of corruption anu
t. which threatens to submerge
~. city yiksa fool, might be eiiec-
,iv.lv s!enmed, and something akin
tin olEtims comparative purity
ami secualy he established.
The council rs a body have
,t,. outset Of this move
,,ant in favor of law, order
and morality, shown no disposition
% act in accord with it. The
sination on last Tuesday, by
ne position assumed regarding
ne application OF the variety the
a.re concern for a liquor license, In
Dictated. to say ;he least, that the
Council is equally divided. There
was a tie on the first test. IL Is
fact also that the license would have
been granted without the casting
vote of the Ma yor being required 10
preveut it, had not one of the coun-
cilmen vino had been committed TO
the pro- W Risky party, changed MS
mind and voted with those who
favor morality. We do not believe
there is any hope for a radical i'm
movement with the Council con-
stituted as it now is.
The question il, what shall be
done to attain the object nearest the
heart OF every good citizen, anu es-
pecialIy dear TO all consistent
parents who wish to preserve their
children from the COMMUNICATIONS Of
vice multiplying and cropping out
in every direction? The answer is,
make the Council a legal body as n
whole. Those who wish TO see the
law enforced, need not expect il
done until those whose duty it is
TO attend TO il shall come within the
law.
1t is a notorious fact that there
are six members of the Coun-
ell who are not legally or in any
other way entitled to the seats they
occupy. The election of last Fehru-
ary Was conducted under the new
law or charter passed by the Legis-
lature, providing that the candi-
dates should be elected from the
municipal precincts, and not at large
as formerly. The Utah Commission
SO directed. The Peoples candidates
were elected, having clear maiorities,
in the Fourth and Second precincts.
But Notwithstanding this fact, the
"Liberal'' candidates were seated,
and have usurped the offices they
now hold.
An appeal to the courts brought a
decision from Chief Justice Zane to
the effect that the candidates of the
Peoples Party were elected aud en-
titled 10 the offices involved. An
appeal was taken to the Supreme
Court of the Territory. After
months OF delay that court held it
8 ss;on, and in order to avoid n de-
cision being reached the "Liberal''
political thieves withdrew the ap-
,eoi They .l-..s tlAra1s the -..ss
back anu Distracted the course of
law, hoping in the meantime that
the official term will expire and the
ROBBERY be rendered complete.
Some Of those members who oc-
cupy the stolen seats have been op-
Grating directly in the teeth of the
popular will as expressed by all
classes in The conduct of public bust
ness. As an instance, in the matter
oil The granting of the liquor license
10 the variety show-these shows as
a rule are dens of infamy. taking
their character in other towns as a
guide three of the bogus council
men voted in favor of granting the
namely: Louis Cobn.
W. Z. Noble AMI Herbert Penn
broke.
The last nameI alsD delivered
one Of the grossest insults to n most
emphatic public expression ever
offered 10y any official in a civilized
community. Wher the mammoth
petition with an immense number
Of signatures of all classes attached
asking for n reduction of taxation.
was presented in the Council. he
peremptorily moved that il In.
.abled- This amounted TO an at.
.empt to deny the constitutional
right OF the PEOPLE to petition. If
he grievances OF the people are
dismissed without consideration,
he presentation is rendered of mo
effect surely no one but a petty
iyrant or insoient usurpcr would
move for an action so arbitrary.
In order that Salt Lake CITY may
have an official body under whose
administration the law can l.. en-.
'orced, let that body itself lie plac,.d
on legal footing. Six of the nj.
legged members of the Council ocru-
Ply seats in defiance of law and q
decision Of a competent court
Hence II those citizens who express
a wish to see the laws enforced
crime suppressed and the moral
purified, are in e.rne.,
let them formulate a demand tho,
liie iiisgai COuncilmen step down |
anu out, and the gentlemen who |
were duly elected take the positions
d which they have been shame6,IIv
deprived.
" appears to us that that sbo,I,II
'e one of the first steps taken bv,,,s
Ia" anu order citizen. Of In. 60,
But that pa. OF il d. |,
wolves upon the better class Of IN.
political party to whom the usurper
belong.
IL has already been suggested-in
The statements made at The meeting
Of last Monday night-.ha. the
oiiciais either enforce the laws apd
put down crime or that they he re-
quested to resign. This insistanc.
ought to begin with those who
have no right to occupy the Posi-.
tons they hold. If there is one
solitary reason in Law or logic why
those six menwh9 occupy the s.,,.