The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-04
DALE AND DUNBAR ATTACKED.


DALE AND DUNBAR ATTACKED
Our evening contemporary is greatly
alarmed lest ..bossisE' shall be en-
grated upon the municipal body pol
itic. There may be danger of this, but
not from the source indicated by our
contemporary; whatever danger there
is in this regard is on the side to which
it adheres, and not on that which it OPP
poses. And whence. in its eyes, is this
danger of 'bossism''? The danger is
centered in the persons OF ex-Council-
man Dale and County Clerk Dunbar,
a couple of American citizens, against
whom nothing can be said save that
I they are Democrats. It seems that
/ these gentlemen, these two American
citizens, according to our contemporary,
are conspiring against the welfare Of
the citizens, if not directly against
their lives and property. If any one
doubts this let them read the follow
ing:
A man who sought power from the
people which they refused to give him,
proposes to exercise the power any
way; and he has a running mate in the
owner of a desk in the city and county
building who, while ne was by the peo-
pie selected to occupy it. and thereby
earn the salary he, with the faithful
ness Of a martyr. draws from the pub
lie treasury, is seeking to exercise a
power the people never dreamed of Civ
ing him. The disappointed
candidate should be told with an en-
phasis he can neither mistake nor for
get. that when the people clOthe him
with authority over the city's affairs
he will be permitted to exercise it, but
not until then; while the owner of the
desk should be admonished with the
vigor his case calls for that he can
serve both his party and the people
better by keeping the pledges on which
he was elected to Office, than by spend
ing his time in secretive politics, while
deputies do his work and cobwebs
cover his books and papers.
So Mr.. Dale proposes to be MAYOR
does he? If he does then he proposes
to be an usurper and not boss"
And what a bad, bad man Mr.. Dunbar
must be to seek to exercise a power
the people never dreamed of giving
him.
THE disappointed candidate" this is
Mr.. Dale, of course, is told with an en-
phasis he must neither mistake nor
forget, that when he is clothed by the
people with authority over the citys
affairs he will be permitted to exercise
it. That is a great concession. Evil
IDENTIFY, according to our contemporary,
Mr.. Dale contemplated exercising au-
thority over the peoples affairs without
having been clothed by the people with
it. He may not have known that such
were his intentions, but they were just
the same
And what an admonition that is to
Mr.. DunbarI 1t is to be hoped that he
will heed it. He should forthwith see
that the cobwebs are removed from his
books and papers; they only look we'll
on bottles of old wine. When he has
got through his eight hours work at
the county building he should go home
Immediately and stay there until it is
time for him to go to work again.
What is the head and front of the
offending of Dale and Dunbar? 1t is
simply that they are members of the
Democratic party, and as such, were
opposed to the non-partisan movement |
Had their efforts been in it's behalf !
they would have received nothing but |
praise from the sources whence they |
now receive condemnation; while what |
is now their crime would have been |
their merit.
Wherein is a non-partisan machine |
any better than partisan machine? So |
far as Dale and Dunbar are engaged in
any machine work, their efforts are
directed to the prevention of the build
ing up of a non-partisan machine"
and not to the building up of a party
one.
A word as to 1.-The disappointed candi-
date: Mr.. Dale is a defeated candi-
date and not a disappointed one. He
made the race for the mayoralty, didn't
win, and accepts the result gracefully
and good-humoredly, and has no piques
or spites TO crafty. He hasn't the least
desire in the world to place a single
obstacle in Mayor CIark's way; on the
and so far as in his power lies, will do
all he can to make the new adminis-
tration q success. Mr.. Dunbar will do
the same. They always acquiesce in
the will of the people, but such ac-
quiescence does not imply that they
Those who insist that they shall or ex-
pect that they will, will be greatly dis
appointed.