Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-23
CITY POLITICS.

Whatever else may be said by the
partisans or party organs against the
work which the non-partisan citizens
committee Is seeking to accomplish,
they have not yet been able to fnd
any fault with the personnel OF the
ticket which that committee has put
up. In one published instance It is
called "just such a ticket as might
have been nominated by conven-
tion," which, while rather faint praise,
must stin be considered, when Its
source is regarded, as "praise from
Sir Hubert" indeed. ON every hand II
IS spoken OF as strong, good ticket
hardly a person even among the most
determined partlsans but who admits
there are many names thereon which
he proposes TO vote for.
1t must be. and is. pleasure TO the
committee TO receive such assurances;
for the members thereof had no inten-
ton of putting up for election corps
of angels or indeed anything better
than clean, tried, practical mon. repre-
sentative of the various elements and
classes of the communlty-men who
have the ability and the nerve to move
right off in an attack upon the abuses
and grievous burdens under which this
devoted city is suffering. II they have
succeeded to that eXtent-and they and
the people believe they have-they
have accomplished all that anybody
could ask. II only remains for the
voters hemselves-scanning the
ticket closely, remembering the mo-
tives which prompted it and the all
overshadowing fact that the nominees
stand upon a plain. square business
platform and have no party friends
TO reward and no party debts to pay at
the peoples expense, and remembering
further their own pitiful experience in
taxation and official Incompetence as
n result of political rule involving the
disgrace to the city's name--it only re-
mains for the voters, We say, to do
the remaining part and carry the
ticket triumphantly at the polls,
The opposition are much worried at
what they are pleased to term the pro-
posed breaking down ot party lines
after all the years that have been re-
qusred to get those lines drawn. The
desperation of their case is shown by
the unworthiness of such an argu-
ment. Nothing could be more trans
parent as an attempt to revive the
chickering's and bitterness of the past
which every honest man is glad t.
consider ended ana behind us, Tn,
speaker or the paper that even in the
most Indirect way resorts to an at
tempt so base should be branded ant
remembered as the common enemy
that he or IT is. Why not let the mer
who have worked at this non-partisar
movement, and the candidates who
are willing to stand on that ticket ant
serve in various official capacities Il
elected be judged by their own char
acter and motives. not by what greedy
place-hunters. INSCRIPTIONS rounder.
and paid press-writers may think Of
say of them We have confidenc,
enough in the dlscernment and com
nonsense of the great bulk Of tn,
people OF this city to feel that they
cannot be blinded by the biased storiei
of office seekers, nor swerved by thu
distortions Of professional politicians
nor sneered out of an honest intention
by the coarse buffoonery Of loahnl
heelers and so-called funny" writer's
While there are doubtless many good
citizens whose sense Of patty allegiance