The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-30
WHAT THE FIGURES
SHOW TAXPAYERS
Comparison Between American
Party Administration and
Morris Gang.
TELL THE STORY in
A VERY PLAIN MANNER
MOrrisite Party Made No Pre-
tense to Pay Debts of
Their Own Folly.

Those opposing the American party
make a great noise about alleged eX-
travagance of that party since January
| /, 1906. Calmly take look at the fig
urcs on that point, Consider the gen
eral funds only, because those are the
funds that maintain the city govern
ment in all its departments. When
Morris and his gang came into power on
January l, 1905, they had:
On hand in general funds ....... S26, ,o7a 90
Received from January l. 1905. TO
june 80, 1905 5s,.....a...,..., 277. .644 62
Total .,...........,....s 1890
spen, from January l. 1908. to
June 10, 1905 .......s..,.a' SsI,4eo'lo
Leaving a net ovcrdraft Of. IS 9a,77o.56
When Mayor Thompson took posses
sion, January l, 1906, he found:
On hnnd in general funds S129, ,S1s.l5
Received from January l. 1906, TO
Juno 30, 1906 ...,..,,.-..p. slb,926.Sl
Total ...... S346, ,446. .06
Spent from January !. 1906, to
Juno 40, 1906 ....s...,.... ddd,74l.o2
Leaving o not overdrnft OF ....s 9s,294 .o6
This ovcrdraft is largely made up
OF lcgacles left by Morris mud
gang, which the American party
had to pay .....-.......... 76,1Ie.o5
Making legitimate oycrdraft
of .....s 80 ....sr.........S 22.l75.o1
This overdraft of $22, 2,l75.01 is all
that the American party is legitimately
responsible for, because if Morris and
his gang had honestly paid the debts
Of their own folly the American party
would have had of its own making an
overdraft Of but $22, ,l75.0l, against the
overdraft Of Morris and his gang Of
500, 3,TT0.56. Figures won't lie, but liars
can figure. Any citizen of Salt Lake
can verify the above figures himself IL
he will call on the City Auditor, ask to
see the books, and he can satisfy him
self. The American party transacts
business in the open. Books and records
in the general Offices are always open
to inspection by the public.
From Washington comes advices that
a Macedonian cry for help has gone up
from the Smoot-Sutherland combination
in view of the activity of the American
party and the conspicuous part which it
Will play In the campaign this fall. 1t
is said that the junior Senator from
Utah, just before he left Washington
for home, called a number Of civil ser
vice employees into his council and
told them they would be expected to
Utah. BY getting busy, he meant not
only with their mouth, but likewise
their pocketbooks, and come up with
cash. To some of those with whom
the junior Senator talked, according
to information from the capital, he is
said to have admitted that there was
90 some DANGER OF the American party
carrying the State.
And so Bill Spry is to retire from the
Craftsmanship of the Smootite State
This is really sad! The
gang is in bad shape. The leaders can
not become Perniciously active in poll
ties or off will como their official heads
the $4,000 annually from the revenue of
fee. That busy little man, Fussy
Jimmy, otherwise James II. Anderson,
drew the salary attached to the deputy
Hyrum E. Booth has just
began to. pull the public teat, hence he
cannot let go. OF course, Artie Thomas
is too busy mismanaging the postoffice.
Mutton Jones is out of the infrmary:
Joe Smith has gone to Europe, Paris if
you please; Sutherland is lodging the
missiles fred against companies mining
black diamonds. And there you are,
z. D. r. Thompson never did cut ice as
Where, oh where, is the leader to come
fromi
Jody Eldridge has at last been
dragged out. He has SHE'D his castor
INTO the Clerkship ring again. Wants
10 succeed himself. But an American |
party man will relieve Jody of the |
burdens of Office early in January next |
year.
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