Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-13
THE sromsMrN MUST co.


For once the metropolis Of the nation
and the metropolis of the youngest
State Of the nation are making similar
efforts to accomplish a common pur-
nose--an upright and able adminlstrn-
ton OF the city's affairs through the
stewardship OF men who prefer the
welfare OF the whole to the special
good of any particular faction. There
be those who are intent upon belittllnE
such efforts, showing. or rather trying
to show, that nothing is or can be ad-
vanced by the non-partisan plan that
cannot as surely as safely and as well
be had through the :ninistrations of
those who hold fast to the party lines
under ali circumstances. The News"
has not denied that there are 4 sur
ticlent number of capable, honest men
in each party to give the city the kind
of government it needs. but it has de-
MED, denies now, and win continue to
deny that such characteristics are the
exclusive popularity Of any particular
organization. If this position is the
correct onc-.and 1t is--it then follows
that the necessary qualifications be-
longing TO each Of the parties in com
mon. the distribution OF positions
should be made accordingly.
In New Yorl: gallant fight against
odds is being made. 1t has always
with r,trc exceptions been completely
party-ridden from end to end and
from center to circumference. The
sway Of the boss and the hand of the
hecler have been all but undlsputed
factors in the economy Of the munich
pulty, and even with a so-called re-
form government now in existence the
same state OF things obtains. the diff
ference being only in degree and not
much Of degree at that. Under such
circumstances ii takes a battle royal
to accomplish anything in the desired
direction, and that kind Of battle. we
are wen assured, is the one that is
going on.
John +. AltEeld, late governor OF IL
linois. is conccdedly one OF the ablest
men on the Democratic side Of our ma
is commonplace and much that is pro-
found, some OF his sentences being
tipped with an impressive truthfuluess
and couched in language OF such en-
cisive force as make them irresistible.
Ills enemies concede this. He says
nothing idly. but makes everything
referable to an occasion and have a
well-defned bearing upon It, In one
OF his recent speeches he said;
1--WE have had thirty years Of color
less politics, TN which both OF the pn-
litical parties We're simply convent
enccs for organized greed. There was
nothing to arouse the deep, slWmher-
Ing patriotism of the masscs, and a
race NJ politicians came 10 the front.
many of whom had no convictions,
hut straddled every proposition and
then waited to he spuuCtd. They wore
men who made every promise TO the
lahorer and then betrayed him. These
men became the Instruments through
which the corporations worked Hay
ing learned what vast sums can be exc
torted from the American people the
monOpolies used part of the wealth
they got from this source to corrupt
the peoples representatives,. and thus
obtain unlimited privileges OF plumber
until almost every great city in this
| country is tied ana gagged and can
not even enter protest while being
robbed"
These arc words TO think over. not
because IN and or themselves they are
clcnr-rul and impressive hut because
they picture and explain % condition
OF things whose actual existence no
one who reads and Ia fair viii attcmpt
To deny, Why Gre such affairs con-