The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-24
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE cIT1-
ITEMS UNION.

For party that pretends to so
much greater devotion TO purity in
politics, to be so much more honest
and moral in public matters. it is
! wonderful how much misrepresenta-
ton the non partisan party has been
guilty Of; all, of course. IN the inter
est of Better municipal government
Declaring that the end it sought was
high. it has proceeded on the theory
that the end justifes the means.
This party has been saying much
about good municipal government in
Glasgow and how it was secured
through non-partisanship. Yesterday
we showed that good government in
Glasgow had been secured by getting
the control of municipal affairs out Of
the hands Of guilds and corporations
and into those Of the people, q thing
the very reverse Of what the non-par
Jisan6 are trying to do.
When the non-parIisans have not
been harping on Glasgow they have
been harping on the Citizens union of
New York. trying all the while TO
make the people Of Salt Lake City
believe that the manner in which the
non-p partisan movement in this city
was started and the methods it pur-
sued were identical with those of the
J Citizens union. There is no similar
ity between the two movements at all
A short sketch of both wiz show
this:
on February %, 1897, a number OF
citizens OF New York issued an address
TO the people Of New York City. They
reeited how the state constitution pro-
vides that municipal elections shall be
held separately from state and ma
4ional elections. and aweIt on the fact
that number OF citizens had united
for the purpose of keeping municipal
and state and national elections sep
arate. To this address was appended
a declaration Of principles and OBJ
Jects.' There, we're nine of these.
After this had been done the business
of enrolment was proceeded with. and
steps were taken to organize a Citi-
zens' union committee in each as
senbly district of New York City.
The folioN--lg is the form of that en-
rollrne1t:
New York, -, 1897
We, the undersigned voters in the
| City of New York, approve the prin-
cipleS and objects of the Citizens
union, as stated in it's declaration, and
desire to be enrolled as members Of
the union. We authorize the COM
nlittee of organization to take such
steps as may be necessary to nominate
for the local offices to be filled at the
election of 1897, candidates who viii
indOrSe and supp Ort the principles and
| objects of the union; and TO take what
/ ever action may be necessary and
proper for the furthereuce of the
declared purposes of the union and for
the election of the candidates SO
nominated.
Name. Residence. Assembly District.
That is how the non-partisan move
ment started in New York.
On September l, 1897, the Citizens
union of the boroughs of Manhattan,
of the Bronx, of Queens and of Rich-
mond, in the name of 127 600 voters of
the above named horoughs, rendered
Seth Low the nomination of mayor of
the Cjty of New York. There was
also letter from James 3. Reynolds,
chairman of the executive committee
; VI NAlC o4lANCAAo O-AtOAi, " -uL- I1UW-
These letters were presented to him
at his summer home at North East
Harbor, Maine, on September 3, by
MI John C Clark, secretary of the
Citizens union. On September 13 Mr..
Low formally accepted the nomina-
ton.
, Such in brief, is the history of the
non-partisan movement in New York.
) Wherein does it resemble the non
partisan movement in Salt Lake City?
Those who started that movement held
all their meetings in secret; did not
ask the citizens TO enroll themselves
in the movement; made all their
nominations in secret, and after they
had made their ticket to suit them
selves, they condescended TO issue
an address to the people. asking them
to support a ticket in whose making
they had not had word to say. Every
step they took showed their deep dis
trust of the voters All their pro-
ceedings show that their aim has been
to usuTp the right of the people to
name their own officers and to con-
centrate in their own hands the con-
troll over municipal affairs. And the
promoters Of this un-American move
ment have sought by every means in
their power to deceive the people and
make them believe not only that it was
. in their interest but that they had
pursued the same methods in in
augurating it as we're employed in
inaugurating the Citizens union
movement in New York. We have
shown the falseness Of this pretense.
The promoters of thu non-partisan
, movement claim no responsibility to
anyone and in all they have done they
have persistently refused to consult
, with those most deeply interested in
the welfare OF salt Lake City and they
are the people of SAT- Lake City They
have not trusted you, citizens; do not
trust them.
SECRETARY CAGES CURRENCY
PLAN.