The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-01
POLITICAL POINTERS.

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Great preparations are being made for
the meeting III the opera house tomor-
row night. Fl. P. Henderson and C. c.
tdchards will be the speakers.
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Hon. David Evans is back and work
ing hard for the election of every mem
Der on the Democratic ticket.
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The duties of collector and treasurer
of Weber county are trying in the ex-
IRENE. To properly attend to and su-
pervise all the numerous and intricate
details man should be vigorous in
mind and body, capable of incessant,
hard, and rapid work. Two of the most
important offices of the county have
been combined in this one and fitness
alone should govern a voter in making
this choice. William II. West is fitted
for the pace in every way. Further
more, ne stands for a principle-the
principle of the free coinage of silver
and is fearlessly advocating IL The
taxpayers of the county will make no
mistake by electlng him
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If you want to register a protest
against the goldbug policy of the Re
publicans, put cross up by the rooster
and let 1t go at thai.
The Republican candidates for the
legislature are kept busy explaining
that they didn't say Things Mr.. Pat
ton now comes out with a denial that
he said Mckinley was a good silver
man or that the Republican party was
favorable to silver as a party, or that
ne made any reference to Arthur Brown
as alleged regarding his Eden speech.
The Eden people, however have put
themselves on record as saying that he
did and r'Na1~a thd -e,f-o
Robert Mcfarland of West Weber.
another legislative candidate, is also in
trouble of a similar nature The Incl
dent occurred at a recent meeting when
T. j. Stevens said he endorsed Senator
CannOn'S course at the st. Louis con-
vention, but waived the question as to
whether he would support Senator
Brown. Mcfarland followed and said
he disagreed with Stevens, as he in
dorsed the st. Louis convention and
indorsed Senator Brown. This caused
such storm that Stevens denied hav-
ing made such a. statement, but yester-
day number of people made affidavit
that he did say it. Among these are
Peter Folkman and Milo Sharp.
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a number of laborers called at The
Herald office last night for information
concerning some Deculiarities in the
method of treating workmen employed
on the county roads under the SUPER
visor of Wilson and Child They say
wOrkmen were paid SIZE a day for 10
hours, or $1.40 for eight hours. The
legal pay. they claim, is $50 for the
legal number of hours. eight, and there
fore claim that the commissioners sys-
tematicaHy overworked the men, while
posing as friends of labor.
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The exposures recently made of the
methods of conducting the county bust
ness by the present board of commits
sioners crystalized last night, when a
number OF citizens decided 10 issue an
address to voters setting forth the facts
brought out by the investigation The
document is brief and to the point The
address is Ito the voters of Weber
county, irrespective of party afilia-
tons" and recites that Weber is the
most heavily taxed county in the state
and has, besides, a bonded indebtedness
OF $150,OOO
1t then goes over the illegal acts of
the present board Of commissioners in
setting aside the law limiting and pre-
scriIbing their duties and becoming a
law unto themselves. 1t calls attention
to the fact that they issued notes to
the amount of $4,000 and placed them
with a bank, ignoring the regularly
elected treasurer of the county, thus
opening the door to fraud; that the
board has not only expended the reve-
nues of the preceding year, but has
plunged the county into debt, so that it
will take the years taxes to meet the
deficiency, besides leaving many thou
sands of debt. The Republican
party. by renominating two of the pres
ent commissioners. has given them the
highest endorsement, and assumed the
responsibility for their acts.
The address closes with an appeal
to the taxpayers to vote the rooster