The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-28
GOING IN TO WIN.

The Democrats of Salt Lake will
name a straight city ticket and make
the hardest kind of a fight to elect it
at the approaching municipal election.
That much was decided upon at a con-
ference of the city and county com
mittee with other members of the party
on Monday evening.
Those Republicans and Americans"
who have been arranging for the flu
sion of the Democrats with some other
party may possibly be disappointed in
the announcement, although no gen.
uine Democrat expected anything else
but straight ticket and a straight
fight. Apparently the Republicans
wished to see fusion between Demo-
Gratis and Americans" just as the
Americans have been praying for
and predicting a fusion Of Republicans
and Democrats. Eeither contingency
must have been fatal to. Democracy,
and neither was ever considered by the
party for a moment.
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In Mondays conference With men
present representing every precinct
and the most active workers of the
party, every one of the conferees was
for an out and out Democratic cam
paign with no entangling alliances and
no thought of abandoning the party or
ganiZatiOn for fusion of any kind 1t
was an Old-fashioned Democratic meet
ing, and every man there was bent on
having a fighting campaign this fall.
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Even this far in advance of the cam
paign the Democrats have their work
mapped out well. The nominees will
be the best men obtainable in this
city, men of character and business ex-
perience. whose very names will be
guarantee of honesty and efficiency in
city government. They viii be pledged
to progressive policies, coupled with
economy of administration in the city
offices; if elected they will establish
business methods in the city offices
and get the best men possible for city
employees. In other words. the Demo-
cratic ticket and platform will stand
for good municipal government.
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The other parties in the triangular
political muddle seem to have had the
impression that the Democrats would
be so anxious to get Office that they
would join with any other party that
would promise a division of the spoils.
Both the Republicans and "Amer1-
cans" have gone along assuming that
one or the other of them would be sure
of election. What reason have they for
the assumption?
Surely the Americans" cannot go
into a fight on the record of the
Thompson Sheets administration. They
themselves have admitted that the ad-
ministratiOn has been a failure; and
they themselves forced Sheets out of
Office after they had assumed the re-
sponsibility for his part in the Nc
Whittier scandal.
1t goes without saying that they will
not campaign on Bransford's record. In
the first place, he is not the choice of
the men who han the American
party, though council members of the
party elected him. In the second place,
dinal creed of the Americans" a ha-
tired of the Mormons and prescription
of them in office. On the contrary, he
has said very plainly that he would
like to see the eternal yowling and in
jury to Salt Lake stopped, and he has
refused TO remove competent officials
whose removal was demanded because
of their religious beliefs. Finally and
lastly, Mr.. BransfOrd is an Old-line
Democrat in his national alignment,
and the very large controlling element
of the American" party is of the hide
bound, dyed-in-the-wooi Republican
variety. He is about as lonesome in
the present city bunch as a buckle
berry in a pan of milk. The "Ameri-
cans" viii not campaign on his record
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One campaign cry the Americans
repeat with parrot-like persistency:
they have improved the city. So did