The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-22
The Citizens Who Will Govern
Salt Lake for Two
Years. 49,
ALL REPRESENTATIVE MEN.
Success Is Certain, and the Only
Question Is as to the
Majority.
A Fair Division Between Democrats and
experimentation the Betting Goes
-Ane.Eer Old Liberal Who viii
Work with the Citizens.

The question no longer is-will it
win? but what will be its majority?
The movement in favor of the citi-
zens' ticket resembles a vast uphea-
val-a great groundswell of popular
feeling, before which the Liberal
party is steadily falling back with
countenances of dismay, and steadily
losing numbers with each movement
of retrogression.
The most significant happening thus
far in the campaign took place yester-
day. This was the betting that
unfailing barometer of the way pub
lie feeling is running. On the streets
were heard many offers ITO bet that
the citizens ticket would have a ma
jority Of 500. Two to one bets were
in the Third and Fourth Precincts
Residents of the First offered to wager
that the Liberals would be downed
there, and one man was seen who
wanted to bet that the citizens would
elect councilmen in the First, Third
Fourth and Fifth Precincts. There
were some takers of bets on MAORI
ties, but they were not numerous.
Seldom, if ever in the history OF
politics has a ticket been placed be-
fore the people that more thoroughly
represented the term citizens move
ment," than the one which represents
the combined labors of the Indepen-
dent citizens and the committee OF
fifty. On it are men selected from all
parties, all religions, all conditions
The cry attempted to be raised in
the early stage of the movement that
the Independent citizens movement
was a church movement fell to the
ground by the weight of its own alb
surdity-and has only been heard
since from such vaporers as Messrs
Powers and Allen, who simply get
themselves laughed at by raising it
OF the twenty men who make up the
ticket ten are Democrats; nine are
Republicans, and one is an Indepen-
dent with Republican leanings. OF
these twenty, at least six have trained
with the Liberals up to the present
mons and eleven are non-Mormons.
What fairer division could be sug-
gested to make up a ticket that
could fifty be called citizens or non
partizan in this community of vari-
gated opinions and interests
An inspection of the ticket, name by
name, reveals that the makers of il
had in view one paramount aim tc
secure men the exact antipodes of the
class of men who now constitute oul
malodorous city council, men OF
lstaunch honesty and business integ.
frity; men fitted by training for the
positions they were to fill, men capa-
bic of graphing with the gigantic
problems they will have to solve wher
the body of this once fair and smiling
now worn and debt-burdened MUM
cipality is turned over to them to be
nursed back into health prosperity.
r. N. BASKIN,
the man who heads the men who vii
lattempt this leviathan task, is proba-
bly, the best advertised individual in
this community today. His busy
life has seen many strange occurren.
ices, but probably none stranger than
those in which he is at this moment
the central figure. Even he must oc.
icasionally rub his eyes and wonder
whether it is not all part of some huge
vision that will vanish at any moment
land restore him to the old condition
lof things. Have conditions changed ii
utah? Glance at the make up of the
/ Citizens' ticket, headed by the name Of
R. N. Baskin, and answer yourself
| Mr.. Baskin's recent history has beer
lmade rapidly. Events have taken him
by the hand and led him forward al
a lightning pace to the position he now
occupies. Nominated by the Liberal
Iparty two years ago, he took the
reins when that party was in the full
hey day of its power-It did not take
three months of that power to show
him that the council his party hac
elected with him was as hopeIessl1
separated from himself as though il
had been operating in the interior OF
Africa. They had mounted the same
conveyance, but each wanted to drive
a different way. There were two
courses open to the mayor-one was tc
fall in with the Liberal council pro.
gramme-to run the city for the bene.
hit OF one class, TO allow it to be blec
by favorites. to see it smothered in ex.
travagance, and to allow its laws tc
be trampled on. This ensured peace
and harmony in the party The other
was to take a manly stand, cali a hall
lift his voice against the course of the
council, warn the city of the perils
which menanced it, This meant dis
cord, denunciation of himself-the
probable disruption of the party; but
not for moment did the mayor hes
itate. His stern and rugged notions
OF honesty and business prudence
were superior to party considerations
He took his stand on the side of hon
lesty; chopped off the heads of THEY.
ling chiefs of departments, even though
those heads belonged to pets of The
party; vetoed dishonest bills right anc
left; reformed where he could
| warned where he could not. and las
might had the satisfaction of seeing
his old time party Tor the remnant a,
liD parade his name up and down the
lstreets on a transparency ANNOUNCING
that he is Baskin in the smiles OF
1.-THE church" Probably the
knowledge that all good cit
liens, all lovers of the citys fail
! fame, all upholders of decency. Law
and order. Gentle. Jew and Mornoy
alike are behind him in the stand h,
has taken, and ready to vindicate hi,
course by their votes on November ~
will enable him to bear all this wifi
| equanimity, perhaps with pleasure
Men who were once his bitterest foe,
are now among those who will .worl
for him the hardest, and for ever,
vote he has lost by his bold stanc
against corruption and inconlpetency
ten will arise to take its place
In politics. as is we'll known, Mr.
baskln IS an old line Democrat; b,
profession he is a lawyer, but he ha.
done more at stock raising of lat,