The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-20
WEST SIDERS
AGAINST GANG
Residents of Former American
Party Stronghold Up
in Revolt.
UNABLE TO OBTAIN RELIEF
MAY TAKE SIDEWALK FIGHT IN
TO THE COURTS.

ORGANIZATION OF the Republicans in
the Second precinct win be completed
Thursday evening at a meeting to be
held at Republican city headquarters
in response TO a call issued yesterday
by Fred Price, chairman OF the pre-
cinct organization. The fight IN the
Second precinct is starting with every
Indication of success for the RepuDli-
cans on election day, and this precinct
which has heretofore been regarded as
the property of the American party
has TeVOited against the misadminlStrA-
ton Of the Americans and turned 40
the Republicans with the assurance
than, under James Murdoch and Re-
publican council, the west side viii
have a fair show in city Improvements.
For the last ten years the west side
has been neglected, and since the
Kearns party has been in power, in ad-
ministrating the affairs of the city, i'm
prOvements have been as hard to find
on the west side as the prOverbial nee
die in the haystack
For more than nine months public
spirited citizens of the west side have
been trying to induce Mayor J. 5.
Bransford and the city council to COM
pei the Denver & Rio Grande railroad
TO lay sidewalks across the tracks at
First South and Sixth West streets and
Second South and Sixth West streets.
Mayor BraBsford has assured the
citizens time and again that he would
"see what could be done" and the pc
titions sent repeatedly to the mayor
and the council have been ignored.
Citizens Are Ignored.
The citizens of the west side, who
have been using every means at their
command to induce the city administra-
ton to grant them this relief in the
matter of sidewalks, have been ig-
nored On every side by the mayor and
council so far as any effort to give
them relief is concerned, and the west
side citizens have now reached the con-
clusion that the only way TO get the
Kearns crowd to give them a fair show
is 10 take the matter into the courts.
With this end in view, certain citi-
zens who have been working for the
American party for years, and who
have heretofore without complaint sub
mitted TO the CALLING yoke of Tom
Kearns, have prepared to go to court
TO compel Mayor Bransford and the
city council make the Denver & Rio
GTande railroad live up to the terms
of its franchise. If Mayor Bransford
and the council persist in maintaining
their attitude in defiance of the law
and common decency toward the west
side citizens. a suit will be filed TO COM
pei the Denver & Rio Grande to show
cause why its franchise should not be
forfeited for failure To provide side
walks. This suit will be followed by
another against the members of the
city council. requiring them TO show
cause WY they should not be removed
for failure TO do their duty in compel
ling the railroad to build the sidewalks.
Residents in Earnest.
we are not blufing in this matter. %
said a prominent west side business
man yesterday. There is no question
of lack of funds, although every one
knows that Bransford and his gang
have drained the treasury and practic-
ally stretched the credit of the city to
the last notch. In the matter of side
walks across the railroad tracks, the
Denver & Rio Grande's franchise has "A
provision that these walks shall be con-
Structed and maintained without cost
10 the city. There must be some rea-
son why the mayor and council refuses
TO look out for our interests, and 1 for
one cannot imagine what honorable
reason the city officials can have for
their refusal TO take any action in the
matter
at is apparent that the Kearns crowd
believe that just because we have been
good Indians down here ever since the
Americans captured the city admins
tratiOn, we will continue to wear the
collar whether we get justice OF not.
When the votes in this city election are
counted, you can bet there will be a
surprise to the Americans, Down here
on the west side we are for a square
deal and a Greater Salt Lake. even
though we have to fight for it, and the
fight we viii make this fall viii be to
give the Republicans a chance to give
the west side the square deal that has
been refused by the Americans.
Reasons for Action.
Take the lineup of the councilmanic
ticket, for instance" said the west side
citizen. THE Americans have E. G.
O'Donnen and c. II. Reed on the ticket
and neither of them has any more in
terests west of the Denver & Rio
Grande tracks that Tom Kearns has
/ notice the Tribune says the action of
+. c. Allen in supporting the Republi-
can ticket this year is simply taken be-
cause Shorty Allen is sore because he
was not nominated for the council
That's about as close as the Tribune
ever comes TO sizing up a situation
Shorty Alien was a candidate for the
on the west side knows. and he was
disappointed when he was double
crossed and Reed, a nephew Of Grand
pa Glore of the fire department. was
slipped in. Allen wasn't the only west
side taxpayer who was disappointed
though With Mr. Alien it was A cas-
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