The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-18
BUT ONE Issue AT STAKE.

II is idle 10 Try TO cyadc the fact
TINT there is but one issue before the
people Of Salt Lake in this munich.
pal campaign. and that is whether pro
grcsS shall be set forward or set back.
The success of the Amcrican party
means the continuance Of that progress
which that party administration has
brought TO the city. The success of the
opposition means the shutting off Of
chat progress, calling hall ON public
improvements, aud giving notice to the
world that Salt Lake has sunk back
iuto the old paralyzing coutrol of the
selfish, greedy pricsily monopolists and
marpIots.
The opposition. full of dcmoniacal
fury, dishiug out lies by the column
morning and evening. full of vile ma,
ijgnity and mcudacity. assails rhc
American party and assaiIs its can.
di3atcs without sense or reason,
dragging in matters that have
no reference to this campaign and dig
giug mp issues that are utterly dead and
passed by.
Al this, however. viii not help the
opposition, Every Que OF common nm
dcrstandiug knows full well The facts,
and knows why these irrelevant and
dead issues arc brought forward. They
cannot in any way affect the present
campaign. They can in no wise enter
into anybody 5 programme Of what is
TO bc done after the election. The
whole matter is utterly vile and CON
tcmptiblc. ard is pressed simply with
desire to disguise the fact that the
triumph of the opposition would mcau
the setback of the progress of Salt
Lake.
There is not ihc least doubt about
this: there is not thc least uncertainty
about what the opposition would do in
case they obtained power. The May
orally candiGatc Of the Federal bunch
has given full warning by his action in
the Council that he is a reactionary of
the most pronounced. inyincible type,
opposed 10 progress and determined 20
stop it wherever his vote could thus
afflict salt Lake.
The same influence got in their work
last year in their opposition 10 the re.
surfacing of Main street and held back
that needed Improvement for almost
a year. Every time that there is an
for the reactiouarics to put
a brake on the wheels -of progress they
are sure TO do il. They never fail.
That is what makes their protcstations
of good Will TO the progress Of Salt
Lake. aud their promise 10 do better
in the way of progress and improve
menfs than the American party has
done. such ghastly Joke.
1t is absolutely Idle for these moss
backs. these determined foes of pro.
gresS, TO undertake to convince the
people of Salt Lake that they are enter
prisiug gentlemen. bent on the develop
mcnt and Improvement of the city.
The fact IS that whenever they have
n chance they arrest that development
and stop the improvements. Their record
is dead against them all the time, and
has been so from the first
Every one knows precisely what is at
stake Every one knows precisely what
the American party has done. is doing.
and will continue to do. Every one
knows that the opposition Will do pre-
cisely the reverse, and that if they can
they will throw the city back into the
paralytic death from which the Ameri-
can party rescued ii by IFS splendid
victory in 1905.
So there is not the least opportunity
for mistake on this point, since every
body can see what the American party
stonds for by what it does, by what
it actually has done; and everybody
sees from the opposition precisely their
reactionary policies by reason of their
insistcncc on stopping progress whcr.
ever they can.
There is not the least opportunity
for mistake AmcTicanism means pro
gress: the opposition means paralysis
And there YOU have the whole matter
in nutshell,