The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-10-30

S12O.100 or not enough to pay off the
present outstanding warrants, and
then there are six months running eX-
pcnses of Ogden City to be paid.
from June Goth TO January 1st 1t
shows plainly that Mayor Brewers
financial policy Will leave Ogden City
in the hole anywhere between 100000
and 100000, after all the taxes are
collected.
How arc you going to meet this
debt? Do you want 10 have your taxes
doubled next year? If so, vote for
Alex Brewer.
| charge without fear of success
full contradiction that the present city
administration is the most cXtrava-
CANT and reckless city government Og
den ever had.
But on looking further into the
City Auditors report I find that the
SPECIAL FUNDS of Ogden City are
overdrawn over $4,000 with some
thing like $4,000 IN the treasury. All
the funds of Ogden City overdrawn.
according to the official report. ag-
gregate just exactly $2S5,531,67.
Think Of our wise and businessllko
mayor who owes $2S5,0O0 and has
$4,000 in special funds In the bank
and s3I 900 in the general fund. or
S54, 900 cash on hand.
Ladies and Gentlemen, at the rate
the present city government is rolling
up debt. you Will have to pay in
creased taxes next year just as sure
as you live today
Now | want 10 talk about the hon.
esty OF the two candidates for mayor.
My enemies arc whispering from
mouth to ear. III William Glasmann
Is elected he will put his hand into
the waterworks fund" They are say
ing that will destroy the waterworks.
They say. because I found fault with
the waterworks report. that | am op-
posed TO the city ownership OF the
waterworks I want 10 say right now
and here. that am I'm favor of the
city owning the waterworks. and al.
ways have been, but | was opposed to
doubling the peoples taxes TO buy the
waterworks | was also opposed to
paying S555,000 for the waterworks
when the plant could be built for half
that money. But YOU own the wa
terworks now, they belong to Ogden
City. Your homes are mortgaged for
S450,000 to pay the wategworlcs bonds.
and you had your taxas doubled last
year. and will do my best, If elected.
TO make 1t pay the greatest return
possible
No. was not opposed to owning the
waterworks. but | was opposed 10 tell
ing the people that you could get
cheaper water If YOU bonded your
homes and paid double taxes when [
knew IL could not be done was also
opposed 10 telling the people that the
profits OF the waterworks would re-
ducc your taxes in the future. if you
would vote the bonded mortgage on
your homes, because / knew that the
waterworks required SO much repairs
and improy emcntS as TO cat up the re-
ceiDts for years and years to come
| played fair with the people of Og-
den. ] warned YOU what the water
works was, but YOU let Mayor Brewer
coax You into voting bonds, and we
own the waterworkS now and we will
all have TO work together and make
II pay all that was promised, If pos
sible.
But some one says. "Why, did you.
MIR. Glasmann, find fault with the re.
port of the waterworks for the first
six months. which showed a profit of
S2l.000?' | objected to that report be.
cause the report lied. and the men
who made that report knowingly
signed d false report Now that is a
strong statement. but | am going to
prove II right now, and as there are
several Brewer officials here tonight,
want them TO stop me at any time
If do not present the exact facts
from the city records.
hold in my hands the official re,
port of the waterworks for the six
months ending June Goth, 1909 This
report shows that there was $9.S9i.2i
in cash on hand in the waterworks de.
partment. | visited the city hall and,
going over the warrant account. dis
covered that on June 26th. 1909, a
waterworks warrant or check was
drawn I'm favor of the Pingrec Ma.
tional bank for $10,l25. and then I
looked al the receipts and disburSe.
ment report of the waterworks depart.
ment and | found this item OF $40 125
missing. / kept this matter 10 myself.
but through the Evening Standard |
offered to wager the members Of the
Brewer administration $500 That there
was something crooked about the wa
terworkS report, but they would not
meet my offer ! was in hopes that
Brewer and his committee would make
a new report. but if they did ii would
show the waterworkS had overdrawn
its account instead of having cash on
hand. Every member OF Brewers In
ner circle" knew that the water re.
port was nothing but Juggling of fig.
ureS. and that it was false and mis-
leading
Just last week called at the audi
tors Office and demanded permission
To inspect the books, and / discovered
that the auditors books showed that
on June 3Oth. 1909. the waterworks de-
partment was overdrawn $23O.66, in
other words the waterworks expendi-
lures for all things were S230.66 more
than the receipts. What would YOU
think of an honest business man show
ing $9.S9i 90 cash on hand when he
was ,13066 in the hole? That is just
what Honest" Alex Brewer permitted
and authorized to be done. II takes
your breath away, does II not. 10 sec
Honest" Alex Brewer do a thing like
that?
then called upon the CITY auditor
and asked why the water committees
report differed from the books I'm the
auditors Office. was then advised
that the people who got up the water
report went over TO the bank and
found that certain checks or warrants
had not been presented for payment,
and they decided to claim that the