The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-22
TOLD ON THE QUIET.
Matters Municipal, Parties Political =
Social and Personal.

| social ana Personal.
What struggle my friends Want
land and Bell made to show that the
city's money had been honestly and
lconscientiously spent! There is prob
ably a grain of truth in their screed !;
the improvements they mention, or at
least some of them, have been made,
but the boys fail to say how much
city money was wasted on north
bench water mains laid to give en-
ployment to Liberal hobos in order
that the Fourth precinct in particu-
lar, and the city in general, might be
carried by the Liberals, and incident
ally to boom property that had been
purchased by real estate sharpers dur
ing the boom!
They also forgot to mention the fact
that much of the money spent did not
go to help keep families in the city,"
and they know. better than anyone
else, that the cash was spent in a GER
tain saloon and boarding house kept
by a, Liberal pet in the vicinity of the
Rio Grande depot; and that it was
paid to and spent by tramps who
never had g. habitation in this city
save bunk at Hegney's.
They know, also, that married men
were laid off the sewers and their
places filed by these same hobos.
They are also aware that men with
families walked the streets and begged
for work from the city, but were re-
fused because they could not be made
a source of profit to this Liberal pet.
They know that tho opIx1 y,occr,or+ -
work on the sewers had to come from
Mr.. Hegney, and that he gave no ire
commends' except to such as he
chose.
They know that thousands of dol
lars were spent in digging a hole in
City Creek canyon for an alleged "res-
eryo1r, that still remains uncom-
pleted.
They know that sidewalks have been
laid with mere pretense of engineer
ing, and which were so faulty they
had to be taken UP again
They know that the city gas stock
but the less said about that the better.
1 only want to ask this question: If
Mr.. Penhale. in open council, paid
| $4,000 for one vote that he did NOT
think he needed, how much did he pay
for those he actually needed?
They know that a street sprinkling
contract was granted Mount & Griffin
for two years when the firm only asked
for one year; that the contractors re-
ceived last year oyer So, 900 for "sprink
ling streets when there were several
inches of snow on the ground: that
these same contracts were refused Salt
| Lakers, for what reason no one knew
it couldn't have been that the "rake-
off offered by the successful firm was
the largerl
They know that double prices were
paidyfor iron and lead used in the
waterworks department.
| They know that all the boosted pub
lie improvements have cost the citi-
zens nearly double what they should
have done.
They know that rank favoritism has
been shown that section of the CITY
| in which Wantland resides, while other
sections have been most shamefuIly
neglected.
| They know that water mains have
| been extended into lucern patches and
along the alleged streets of subdi-
visions that cannot possibly be used
for years; that the city will never get
back the interest on these pipes. to
say nothing of the cost of laying the
iron.
They know great many other
things that need not be mentioned this
morning, but will probably come to
light before the campaign is over.
'some are good, others indif-
ferent, and others positively
une concerning the councilmanic can
didates on the Liberal ticket. This
was on Friday On Saturday there
was flop, and all are good, except
Lawson and Cohn, the latter having
been little wobbly'' in his politics
l have known Cohn for loi these MANY
years, and am sorry that he has let
his vaulting ambition o'erleap itself.
And for Sam Fenton, who seems to
have downed Galleazzi in the Third
1 have the utmost commiseration.
Samuel has rather aldermanic an
pearance, but I am surprised that he
should allow himself to be slaughtered
at the eleventh hour. Come in OUT OF
the wet, SAM The idea of your or
gan saying You are "a young man
and comparatively untried." They
do not know you, Samuel, like I do.
And all that they can say for Dan
Dunno is that he has done ''yeoman
service for the Liberal party" This
puts Daniel in the same class as Clute.
Shovel, Armstrong, McCallum. Joe
o. Brien, Hyams, Galleazzi Hegney.
and the hobos of Tie Siding and
Pleasant Valley. Poor Danl
And Johnny Wiscomb, d man whom
have known since he played with me
on the bench. making mud pies.
Turned down in his efforts to gain the
authorship four years ago and two
years ago, he became a bitter anti
Liberal, and yet at this late date, he
has an official bee in his bonnet.
Stick to your cabbages, corn beef, |
peanuts and caulifiower, John; there |
is more money and fame there than
in being a candidate on the Liberal |
ticket.