The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-22
years. He is said to be. if not
wealthy very well to do.
GUSTAVE H. BACKMAN.

GUSTAVE H. BACKMAN.
The man over whose nomination the
Citizens and Independent Citizens so
long hung apart, Is a young man of
80, in every way qualified for the po-
rsition of recorder. He was born in
Sweden, came to this country
at the age of twelve. Has
had almost a lifelong experience in
offices where public records, abstracts,
and legal documents were kept and
executed. Was in the office of the
recorder of this county during the
whole of the boom, and served as
deputy under both George M. Cannon
and John H. Rumel jr. In his line
he is an expert. Is today manager
of the Security Abstract company, and
is second to no man in the community
on questions relating to public records.
Has a good common school education,
attended the university in 1885 and
1886. In person is a giant; genial,
affable, inclined to much particularly
in dress and popular with all who
know him. National politics, Demo-
cratic.
CHARLES S. BURTON,
The gentleman who will have to exc
cute the enormous bond formerly re-
quired of the treasurer when he had
will have no sort of difficulty in OBJ
tanning all the bondsmen required.
Mr.. Burton is one of our young sue
cessful business men, and is best
known In the community as manager
of the Salt Lake theatre, a 100000
corporation, of which he is also presi-
dent. He is besides a director in the
State Bank of Utah, the Provo
Wooden Mills, the Home Fire Insur-
ance company, the Brigham Young
Trust company and Heber j. Grant Il
Co. He has grown UP in commercial
surroundings, and is admirably fitted
for the part Of treasurer. When al
most q boy he was in the employ OF
the Deseret National bank; from there
he went to the Union Pacific railroad,
then the Utah Central; after that he
was a partner of W. H. Rowe in the
shoe business; then he went to u. =.
NJ l. He was manager OF the Herald
for some time, and left there to take
the management of the theatre Strict
integrity and high financial and ex-
ecutive ability are Mr.. Burton's dis
tinguishing traits and as treasurer of
Salt Lake city he will do credit, not
only to himself, but to the party that
placed him there.
ARTHUR PRATT.
Next to the mayor. the man who Is
most talked about on the ticket tes-
pecially by it's opponents) is Arthur
Pratt. Age, just turned 40; national
politics. Republican, of the stalwart
order, brain, active; eye, eagle; muscu-
lar development, tremendous; nerve,
unflinching-in all the ideal man for
the responsible position of city mar
shall. Mr.. Pratt has had eighteen
years experience under the United
States as deputy marshal and warden
of the penitentiary; has served in ev-
cry district in Utah. He rose to local
fame in 1889, when he was appointed
to take charge of the northern district
with headquarters at Ogden. He found
that city in the hands of hobos, tin
horn gamblers and prostitutes. The
boom was opening and the Liberals
were in the first flush of power. The
city authorities were afraid of the
powerful vote sent out from the dives,
and they refused to listen to the
clamor raised by decent people and
put a stop to the practices that were
running the credit and reputation of the
city. A strong association of ministers
and wealthy citizens invoked the aid
of the United States marshal. Mr..
Pratt first asked the police to take
measures to rescue the city from the
Iidll1S VI lllG mugs dlQ
They refused to interfere, and, one
bright morning Ogden awoke to find
the marshaPs Office doing what the
city hall should have done-cleaning
out the Augean stables. The dives
were closed, saloon men who persisted
in throwing their doors wide open on
Sunday were arrested, the tin-horners
were scattered, prostitutes were made
to have regard for public decency and
in a short time the city was measure
bly, free from the hold-ups and hobos
who had infested it. Mr. Pratt had no
war with liquor dealers, because they
were liquor dealers; the reputable class;
among them applauded his efforts.
just as they will do in this city when
he takes up the fight with the dives,
the un-horn palaces, and the shameless
bagnlos that disgrace our city. This
is the class that is raising the great
cry against him today-it is not the
respectable liquor dealers who know
they have nothing to fear as long as
they keep within the laws Mr.. Pratt
mas received so many assurances of
announcement and aid from all shades
ana conditions of citizens. without
regard to politics, that he feels more
than ordinarily hopeful as to the re-
suit OF the coming election
GRANT H. SMITH
who wanted to know if he had" eot
in the wrong pew is probably now
convinced that he is in the right one
The new office of justice for the whole
city, TO be voted for November 7. for
the first time, could hardly go to a
better man than Mr. Smith. Mr..
Sinltn is aged 30, native of California.
Graduated from the Placerville
academy at Placerville, California in
1883. He adopted mining as his voca-
tlon and followed it almost CON
unuously, became principal of the
public schools at Battle Mountain
Nevada Here he studied law and
was admitted by the Nevada supreme
court in January, 1890 In June 189O
ne came to Salt Lake to practice and
entered the office of Arthur Brown
where he remained until 1891. Mr..
smith mas since his residence in Salt
Lake compiled general index of Utah
statutes, a book of four hundred
pages, which is highly spoken of bv
his professional brethren. He was the
candidate for county attorney on the
Republican ticket last fall. and ran
considerably ahead of his ticket.
E. P. NEWELL
will it is confidently claimed by his
lTlenus, lead the vote on the council
manic ticket in his precinct-the pre-
cinct that will be the Shenandoah
valley of the coming campaign. II is
known that the citizens will win in
the Third and Fourth, hands down.
The first win be the great battle
ground. but inasmuch as Democrats
Republicans and a strong section OF
the Liberals here are united against
the party in power and more especially
as the Liberals have in this precinct
where they needed their very strong
est men, put up their very weakest
the general anticipation is that the