The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-27


about seventeen miles, and in addition
we have scaved ovel. IS, 900 for the city
treasury by taking the contract out of
the hands of contractors and jobbers.
l pledge myself to handle the new
issue of bonds to the best interests of
the city, and to save proportionately as
much on the refunding Of them as was
done by the Democratic party when
they saved $500 in premiums and $102.-
500 in interest during the life time of the
recent Issue Of bonds. Our battle cry
in this campaign is economy and pro-
erosion. .
The Manila Mandolin club then
played a Republican quick-step- out Of
office march, and Joshua Midgley fol-
lowed it up with story about exces-
Size Republican taxation, and the
thousand and one ills that always fol-
low in the wake of the 6. o. p.
Adam Paul was the next speaker,
and he told why he had forsaken the
Republican party for the Democratic
party. Il am going to assert my
rights, said he, and when fiipffop-
ping paper of nondescript hue and those
that control it are banded together in
a small clique for the purpose OF bully
Raging the individual and controlling
the party, you can count me out. l am.
in this campaign to help put men into,
office who will give an honest goyerr-H
ment, and not have their actions con-
trolled by Pat Lannan, the man who is
trying to run the Republican party.
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
day Saints and every other thing under
TIE sun.
Robertson's Pose. =
Robertson has been posing in the
council as the friend OF the working.
l,r
and the goldfbugs alone. He is the hired
man of Dolly, and his sole object in
life is to protect Dooly's interests; all
else can go to thunder"
Frank B. Stephens was the next
speaker. He said: the storm bureau
is now roaring for a Republican city
and national government: if you want
to find out what a turncoat sheet that
daily is, all you have to do is to read
soma of the scathing editorials ground
out by the gifted editor of that paper
two and three years ago Every edi-
torial he wrote condemned the ReDub-
lican government Of country and city
alike; he said that the Republican
party was the party CT universal san-
nation.
Men have changed, but principles
are inviolable, and if the fight was
worth the waging in 1896, it is worth
today, and again in 1900. Inc
trusts are here TO stay until the indus
trial conditions change; they are a part
OF tfat condition, but they cannot be
legislated out of existence; they must
be regulated, and. the party to do the
regulating is not the party for whom
the trusts pour out money. The DEM
ocratic party, as the party of the peo-
pie, must see to it that exact justice is
done by man to man, and tnan to cap
ital, if you please"
Fisher Harris gave Colonel Lannan
touch of high life, and Gissected the
motives that actuate the political boss
with the double-edged weapon OF satire
and sarcasm. The government should
derive its powers from the consent of !
the governed" said he, and not from 4
the high-handed actions of the political
boss whose sole object is the interests
Of himself and his truculent healers. I
Pat Lannan has put the stamp of ms /
political approval on a man who has
openly acknowledged that he knows no |
more about the administration of a city /
government than 7 know about the
garb cf an archangel. or the complexion 7
IF the last wife of the sultan of Sulu. 7
The Republican candidate for mayor |,
has bowed the knee to the mighty boss [
who controls the party and all its mem |
oers. Thompson has made the state I
nent that he was dragged from obscur- 7
ty and placed in the political arena /
by the man to whom he owes every /
hing, and that man is Lannan.