The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-03
CONSIDER THE SITUATION.

The welfare of Salt Lake city should be
uppermost in the minds of all good citizens.
In voting men into Office we should ask if
those men viii work for the best interests
of the city, first satisfying ourselves
that the candidates are personally honest
and capable. individuals are of small con-
Germ to the community. What these men
do is the thing in which the public is inter-
ested.
The Liberal party has arranged a NUM-
cipal ticket containing twenty names. We
say the party has done this, although the
rank and file had mighty little to do with
it. except in the way of confirmation, the
real work, the selection of candidates and
the placing of their names upon the ticket
having been performed by the bosses. How
the business was done, however, does not
matter just now, the question for serious
consideration being as to the promises the
nominees give for providing Salt Lake with
good government. We ask the voters, and
especially the property owning voters, to
study the list of candidates and then
answer themselves fairly and truthfully,
| freeing their minds for the time from par
tisauism, if they are ready to intrust the
affairs of this great and growing city to the
control and management which the Liber-
ais propose. 1t is true, not many of the
names of the nominees are known to the
general public, the owners of the majority
of the names being either comparative
strangers in town, or they have been of SO
little consequence in the COM
munity that their identity has
not been established beyond the
immediate neighborhood OF their residence.
Who of those who are known have ever
done anything which suggests their fitness
! for the duties devolving upon municipal Of
! hcials at this important period in the
career of Salt Lake: Which of them
would be employed by our merchants,
bankers and mill-owners to manage their
business? If the property-owners and
| business men would not employ these can
didates in their private capacity, why
should they consent to their employment
by the community to manage and control
interests so much larger and more import
ant than those of any individuals We could
name many bankers, merchants and large
real estate owners nominallyin the Liberal
party who have so little confidence in the
ability and integrity of the party's candi-
dates for Office that they would not for a
moment entertain the proposition to take
them into their private service. VIII these
gentlemen, in their blind loyalty to party
attempt to foist the incompetent nominees
upon the city, bringing disaster upon
themselves with others in obedience to the
commands of the political bosses! We
hope not. Of course it needs no argumen,
to convince the person of ordinary intelli
gence that it would be folly bordering upon
insanity to vote into Office entire strangers
1t is critical period in Salt Lakes his
tory. The administration of the past two
years has been such as to bring the city tt
the verge OF great disaster. A great dan.
ger threatens. 1t is the danger of the con.
tinuance of the misrule which has wrought
SO much mischief. Two years more of the
incompeteucy, the recklessness. the ex.
travagance, the misrule, the terrorizing o.
the public which have characterized the
present administration, would lay Sal
Lake 50 low in the esteem of the world tina,
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possible to obtain would not bring prosper.
ity back TO the town. 1t is Just that con
tinuunoe which threatens, only the admin.
istration will be as much more iniuriou,
than this one has been as the present Lib
eral nominees are less competent, less en-
terprising, less progressive and intereste,
less financially in the city than the outgo
ing officials.
We want the Liberal property owner
and business men to think this ~ after owe
in fairness Of mind and GOODNESS of judg
ment; We want them to do this, because W
believe they will then get the courage ant
the strength to defy the party bosses anc
work for their own preservation and tn
rescue and salvation of the threatened city
Gentlemen, be as free and Independent
and honest in this matter as II the result
of the election were all to be borne by yor
individually, no other than your own il
terests being involved