The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-02
WHY BARNES WILL WIN.

nat mas MI. Barnes cOne 70 ueSSlNe
election? inquiries the local Republican
organ. In its daily assaults upon him
the Hanna sheet has told the public
time and again why he should be elect
,sil. Here are a few of the reasons:
l. He tried to GUST Chief Pratt" as
the Tribune walled yesterday. This
entities him TO the lasting gratitude OF
the Salt Lake public
2. He will not appoint Pratt chief of
police when he is elected mayor. This
entities him to the confidence of a
Pra,t-riahen people.
8. Mr.. Barnes is a good citizen, a
conservative business man, one who
mas the welfare of the community at
heart. He has had experience in pub
lie affairs. knows the needs of the city
and its financial condition.
4. He cannot be led around by P. H
Lannan nor used to further the per-
sonal schemes of any man, Republican,
Democrat or mugwump.
: When the Republican boss made
TIE assertion some time ago that I'VE
will elect a man this fall who will put
Arthur Pratt back if it costs $4,000 to
do so.'' he. didn't mean Arthur Barnes.
s. When the Republican organ libels
the people of Utah, calls them pledge
breakers and w-breakers, the people
do not care TO have mayor elected
on that platform and who will dignity
those libels with an official sanction.
II is bad enough to have a governor
and a secretary of state who do it.
= When the Republican organ warns
home-seekers away from this city by
sending one of its employees out to
ileet all Corners with bottle of barn
yard ooze procured fifteen miles away
from the city and tells them that such
is the fluid the people Of this city use
mayor who viii denounce such in
famous ISLANDERS.
s. Mr.. Barnes voted for the appro-
priation of $4,000 to be expended in
the enlargement and extension of the
City creek water mains last spring,
but Republicans prevented the work
from being done.
8. Mr. Barnes voted last May to have
the city engineer look after the rights
of the city in Jordan waters and to
measure the amount consumed by the
failed to carry out this order it must
be remembered that they were not Sc
lected by Mr.. Barnes.
10. He voted for an appropriation to
clean out Parley's creek, and this work
has been done To the complete salts
faction of one of Mayor Clark's ap-
poin5ees whose selection was endorsed
by the Republican organ.
IL He has insisted upon the COM
pleee redemption OF the city from the
awful financial condition in which it
Was left by the Republicans two years
ago-a condition eloquently deplored in
The non-partisan address signed by
Ezra Thompson's chief hackers.
p If elected. Mr.. Barnes would, by
his veto if necessary. prevent the is
suance of gold bonds, a scheme the Re
publican city committee has in view
at this time; he voted for lawful
money bonds before and will insist
upon them again.
He has done all that any man could
do under the circumstances to lift the
city from the slough of despond, in
spite of the fact that Republican ex-
travagance had left the city so far in
debt and had used money so far in ad-
vance that public improvements were
out Of the question. according to the
signed statement of Messrs. P. H. Ian
nan. c. c. Goodwin, j.. Z. Dolly, o. ]. |
Salisbury, George A Lowe and John
Henry Smith.
Surely these things entitle Mr.. Barnes
to the confidence and respect of the
community; any one is reason enough |
why he should be elecsed in preference
II the boss man. Ezra, upon whom he |
depends TO reinstate his man Pratt
On the other hand. what has Mr.. Lam
nan ever done to entitie him to be
elected mayor of this city under the
alias of Ezra Thompson?