The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-10
THE NOMINEES FOR COUNTY COM
MISSIONERs.

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A contemporary, commenting upon
the nominations for county commits
sioners, yesterday said:
Yesterday we noted the nominations
maze Tor county commissioners by the
republican convention. The showing
was not encouraging for the tax
payers. But would it be any better
with the Democratic nominees in Of
nceE Let us see. The candidates of the
Democracy are Francis Armstrong.
Joseph s Rawlins and Lucius E. Hall,
the latter selected in the fusion by the
Populists. Of this combination Mr.
Armstrong would easily be the domi-
mating force. Mr.. Rawlins would stand
with him at all times, on account both
OF political and personal ties; Mr..
Hall would be of the board, but not in
1t, on any question of difference.
That is as much as to say that Mr.
Armstrong would be the county court
Our contemporary chief objection is
to MIR. Armstrong. 1t charges that he,
being interested in power enterprise
in Big Cottonwood, would see to it
that any favors that enterprise might
ask were granted, whether or not it
was proper to grant them. We do not
think Mr.. Armstrong would ask any
favors for his company that it would
be improper to grant; but il he did,
it would be the duty of the other mem
bers of the court to refuse them, and
we think that no one who knows Mr..
Rawlins and Mr.. Hall would believe for
moment that they would not do their
duty. We do not believe for a single
instant that Mr.. Armstrong has any
idea of acting as the agent of any
company or corporation if he is elected,
but only for the people.
Our contemporary in reality puts
Mr.. Rawlins and Mr. Hall down as
nonentities. They are certainly not
that. They are men of will and
strength of character; very much such
men, in this respect, as Mr.. Arm
strong. They are not the kind of men
to be dominated by anybody They are
three exceptionally strong men and ex-
ceptionally well qualified for the office
to which they have been nominated.
1t must make the voters and tax
payers of the county smile to read this
question by our contemporary: But
would it be any better with the Demo-
cratic nominees flor county commits
sionersI in Officer" And only the day
before, this same contemporary had
said of the Republican nominees for
county commissioners:
We had hoped that men of high bust
ness standing would be named for
county commissioners, but that was
not done. Mr.. Geddes, who is renomi-
old board by far; but there has been so
much extravagant expenditure and so
much excess of employees, far more
than the business of the different de-
partments really called for on a proper
basis of business and economy, that
Mr.. Geddes viii have to show that
this was done against his opposition
in order to obtain the favor of the
voters. Mr.. Perry is unknown to us,
but is probably not familiar with large
transactions and multitudinous de-
tails such as must be dealt with in
this office. The nomination of Mr..
Christopherson is shameful; he is ut
terly incompetent and unfit for this
position.
Its very just criticism upon the nom
inees of its own party is complete
answer to its own question. 1t would
be very much better, in every regard,
with the Democratic nominees in Of
fee.