The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-08-27
NO MORE Liberal RULE.

ripened into deep disgust. This feeling
affects all classes and parties. No one
outside cf city employees and their imme-
date friends can be found, who will de-
lend the course that has been pursued by
the Liberal manipulators of the munich
pality. And the clots of corruption that
have fioated to the surface of the city
pool and have been exposed by the press,
are looked upon as indications of the rot
tenness that as yet lies hidden beneath.
A thorough and radical change is de-
manded by an incensed and defrauded
people.
The Liberal organ that helped to place
these men in power. that has apologized
for their failures. applauded their ex-
travagance, upheld them in every scheme
that has wrung money from the tax
payers and burdened the city with debt,
at length sees the coming universal re-
volt and hastens to pull out fresh stops,
alter its tone and begin an entirely new
tune.
1t admits that s'a mistake was made in
the selection of city councilmen;" that
their course has beer ''as wrong headed
as can be-" thatwork which should have
been done is delayed; that ''ter-
rible blunders'' have been made
about the sewers; that the city
administration has been inefficient,
bungling, blameworthy, if not corrupt"
that it has been such that .no reputable
citizen can defend or excuseits F" and that
the only thing to be done is to "cut loose
from and entirely abiure it, and to
"cIean out the Augean stables"
All this is the denunciation of the Salt
Lake Tribune of its own pets and pro-
teges. They are the men who were the
pick of the town when the Tribune helped
to do the picking. They were the ne ptus
ultra OF snow white purity, the very es-
sence of legislative and administrative
wisdom, the elimination of bright and
alert shrewdness, the climax of business
and executive ability
What has caused this astounding change
of sentiment? Why this sudden flop? It
beats any feat of contortion ever seen In
Salt Lake. 1t is worse than the acrobat
who was billed to turn inside out and
then swallow himself whole. A careful
of the editorial in Satur-
days Tribune win bring the causes to
light. There are two:
First, the city councillors have made
assertions of independence and freedom
from control" That of course will not
do Tor the Tribune bosses. If the Liberal
city councillors have been really free and
of that sort of control, there
is some virtue in them, although the
Tribune gives them credit for none, but it
must be Of recent development.
Second, the Tribune wants to take the
lead in new Liberal n ovement. 1t calls
for ''the solid. substantial citizens of the
Liberal party to come to the front and
take charge of affairs.'' That means a
new Liberal movement controlled by the
Tribune, to head-off any concerted action
by the Democratic and Republican
citizens and some of the best men in the
disjointed Liberal faction, which has been
talked of, to effect revolution in city
affairs.
These reasons account for the summer
sault OF the Liberal organ. But change
its coat and face about as it may, to the
public it is the same old representative of
al that is wrong and vicious in Liberal
ism. Its latest trick is too transparent to
deceive. The Liberal work is not disguised
by the bait held out to gudgeons. The
people of this city do not want s'the
Liberal party to "come to the front, -
but with its organ to retire to the rear.
After two such city councils as the Trib-
une acknowledges that party has fur
nished, s'thlrd term' will be yocif-
erously declined.
After. ssone set' of counciImen $50
extremely unsatisfactory, followed by
"another set'' whose course has been
"as wrong-headed as could be-, to ask
the public to try another set from the
same BODY of materials is the acme of
and the extreme of audacity.
No, the people want clean sweep of
Liberal rule. That party has been twice
tried in this city and twice found want
ing. Its representatives have brought
modification to decent men of their
own crowd, and feeling of utter
and wrath to the entire COM
munity. 1t will have to stand aside or be
rent to pieces. It has come to its bitter
end. The 7rtbape's attempt to revive it
will fail. The fat has gone forth, Glib
eral rule shall 60. We must have a re-
spectacle and stable city government,
and the conviction has been reached that
it cannot be furnished by faction that
may have been fit for agitation, but is
totally uufit to rule.
KEEP FROM THE LIBERAL faint.
People of different political faiths are