The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-28


holders in a great corporation. This
apt allusion caused the bankers pres
/ ent to applaud vigorously
Mr. Ritter then plunged into his
( notes Taxes are high He knew of
a piece Of property sold three years
ago. 1t was bought by another man
and would doubtless be sold again some
I time.
Rents are low. Some property won't
rent at all Why he knew a man who
owned piece of property Who after
/ he paid his taxes and insurance didn't
make over per cent on the valuation.
/ Mr.. Ritter described the gradual raise
! in taxes and said if enough to pay the
J e1-peEses of the city it would be 80
mills.
/ There is too high valuation on
! property. Ritter didn't say how a nom
partisan administration could reduce it,
but let that pass. He then wandered
down 90 New York. where the rate is
1 only 20 mills. An eloquent description
/ of New York taxation followed. He
said if the people wanted to verify what
j he said they could do it; he wouldn't.
( salt Lake was in the rear in non
( partisan matters. 1t is gaining ground
( in the United States The following
cities we're under non-partisan govern
ment.
Boston. New York. Providence. Bid
! dleford. Me. Cambridge, Mass, Buff
falo, Richmond, Pittsburg, Balumoreg
! Toledo, Chicago and many others.
The speaker saw no connection with
the silver movement so far asthis cam
/ paign is concerned
Stoekholding was again made an il
lUstrauon and even Charles Ellis
smiled at the homely way Ritter worked
IN = fpIy iiT71r17iPS in r1JT1T1O1-f corY1a
thing he wanted TO say but couldn't
Mr. Ritter said be wanted to give Il
history of how the ticket was selected.
The committee asked their friends 10
send in lists. They did so and out Of
all the lists Clark was selected.
/ In regard so The orher candidates
their moral character was scanned. 1t
! MAS asked of q man if he paid his debts,
refralned from walloping his wife, was
temperate and sober. and all that sort
/ of thing.
! Men who came and asked for office
/ were turned down. Several came and
asked for places and were given the
marble heart And every selection was
/ made unanimous.
Nom partisanisn is here to stay and
whether we elect our ticket or not we
viii be here from now on until we win. +"
GEORGE RONINEY.
George Romney said he didn't know
! what he had done to be called upon TO
speak, for he never heard of it until I
O clock Mr.. Romney Was in hearty ac-
cord with the movement. The civ
} council had done better in the last two
years than before, but there We're lots
/ OF reforms to be accomplished vet
MI, ROmneY WAS against 'eelers in
politics and declared he knew men were
not always selected with view to get
ting good ones, but because they had
done 4lEs,s something for someone else.
asserted, ne could not improve his prop
erty- He could not stand it. We must
/ have council anG mayor who cannot
/ ne bought. He had no promises to
! make, either TO the voters of his ward
/ or anywhere else. He did not believe
/ IN making promises. He believed all
had rights within the corporation that
! should be respected, and he was
! against the policy of giving men work
! when o1d-ttmers, men who had lived
here for years, could not get a Job
SiiNer has no place in this campaign
! Neither have men who have no prop
! erty. who are here To create trouble. If
the president of this non-partisan coun-
ell gets drunk, he viii not be dismissed
The speaker said he was an Old
/ timer. lie came here and helped kill
- ~ ~ ~ elllSh ~ ste taxes re-
dueed. Taxes were too high. The peo-
/ pie were going to destruction like an
empty barrel on a mountain torrent.
The point is, what are we going to
do about it? Rise en- masse and upset
things.
1t has been said this is a bankers
party Don't they object TO paying
/ taNes2 Certainly. My experience is.
the more money Il man gets. the closer
I he gets. They made their money here,
and they don't want to lose it.
Mr. Rom-ey said he believed the
cause Was not HOPELESS but there was
1 too much politics
Air Romney then read his answer to
the wheelmen, which consisted in a
simple promise to run the city as
cheaDlY as possible
f. S. RICHARDS.
Mr. Richards saw great necessity for
( comparisons. and invited the audience
Il renatr to the county building and
see how many homes had been sold for