The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-01
FOR a CLEAN CAMPAIGN.

The city campaign with three tickets
IN the field, viii be Uu in full blast be
foro the end Of the week. Every citi-
zen who honestly believes in the prin-
ciples of his party will honestly try to
bring about the election of his party .
candidates. The Democratic ticket is,
we believe. the best that has been or
will be named. For that reason we are
giving il our cordial support. The Her
aid hopes, however, thae nobody win
be able to charge it with unfairness
toward any candidate.
We propose 10 conduct the campaign.
as far as our part of it is concerned,
along strictly legitimate lines. and we
venture To hope that members of all
other parties will adopt the same poll
icy. \ party that cannoe win an cleo
ton without resorting to lying and mis-
representation. without attempting to
besmear the characters of decent men
with yillainous abuse, does not deserve
10 win an election. Even a city cam
paigu can he conducted ON q nigh plane,
and should be.
The voters of this city will not be
deceived by any campaign of Islander.
Most of them are men and women who
think. Passion and prejudice have no
place i'm their political scheme. They
read both sides of every argument and
draw their own conclusions. More of
them viii be alieuated than won by
fraud and deceif
-- Il is particularly fortunate that the
records of both nominees for mayor, as
well as of the probable nominee of the
Republicans, have been made publicly,
They may he seen and read by all voters.
And from those records all can reach a
conclusion as 10 the best candidate The
Herald, as il has said before. gladly
invites such comparisons. We want the
people TO study the official career of
Richard T. Norris and set it over
against the official career of Ezra
Thompson.
Mr. Thompson's best friends will
hardly go so far as to say that in either
Of the terms he served as mayor he
made "a capable chief executive. He is
fine, easy-going. sunny tempered
man whose personal character is ex-
ccllent. But he has no executive abiI-
ity whatever, and we have no reason
for suppOsing that he would devote
more time TO the city's affairs if he
should be elected next month than hC
did when he was in office before.
Mayor Morris, on the other hand has
given his entire time. or practically so
10 the city. He has been alert, conscien-
tious. faithful \ record of the wis,
actions he has taken would occupy
considerable space in these columns il
set forth i'm a single issue of The Her
aid. Nv. Thompson nor his friends car
point to a single movement Thompson
originated for salt Lake City's good.
OF Chief of Police Lynch's record dur
ing the two years he has been I'm office
appointed by Thompson and retained
by Morris, we will have something t,
say later in the event. as now seem:
sure of his nomination for the mayor.
atty by the Republican city convention
And i'm all the statements The Herald
shall make during the campaign. it vii
confnc itself TO cold facts; stated with
out, passion. without heat but solely
with a view 10 keeping the record.
straight so that the voters of this city
may know in which direction their bes
interests lie.