The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-10-21

and $4,000 in the general fund, or
$4,000 cash on hano,
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 to talk about the hon
esty of the two candidates for mayor.
My enemies are whispering from
mouth 10 car IF William Glasmann
Is elected he will put his hand into
the waterworks fund" They arc say
ing that will destroy the waterworks.
They say, because ] found fault with
the waterworks report, that / am op-
posed 10 the city ownership OF the
waterworks. ! want TO say right now
and here. that ] am in favor OF the
city owning the wateTworks. and al
ways have been, but l was opposed TO
doubling the peoples taxes to buy the
waterworks | was also opposed to
paying $555,000 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
$i50.000 10 pay the waterworks bonds.
and You had your taxes doubled last
year, and / will do my best, If elected
10 make 1t pay the greatest return
possible.
No. was not opposed to owning the
watorworks, 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 it could not be done. | was also
opposed TO telling tho people that the
profits OF the waterworks would re
ducc your taxes in the future. II you
would vote the bonded mortgage on
your homes. because ] knew that the
waterworkS required so much repairs
and improvements as 10 eat up the re-
ceipts 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, il pos
sible
But some one saws. "Why. did YOU,
MIR. Glasmann. find fault with the re
port of the waterworks for the first
six months. which showed profit of
S2lOOO?' | objected to that report be.
cause the report lied, and the men
whn--.nladc- that report knowingly
signed false report. Now that is
strong statement. but | am going to
prove 1t right now, and as there are
several Brewer officials here tonight,
] want them 10 stop me at any time
if | do not present the exact facts
from the city records
] hold In my hands the official rc.
I port Of the waterworks for the six
months ending June Goth, 1909. This
report shows that there was S9.S94,34
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,
wateTworks warrant or check was
drawn in favor of the Pingree Ma
tional bank for S10.125, and then
looked at the receipts and disburse.
mcnt report Of the watorworks depart
ment and found this Item OF S1O,125
missing. ] kept this matter 10 myself.
but through the Evening Standard
offered 10 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
new report, but il they did II would
show the waterworks had overdrawn
its account instead OF having cash on
hand. Every member OF Brewers On
ner circle" knew that the water re-
port was nothing but a 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 Goth, 1909, the waterworks de-
/ partment was oyerdrawn S2S066, I'm
other words the waterworks eXpendI-
tures for all things wore s23066 moro
than the receipts. What would YOU
think OF an honest business man show
ing $9,S9400 cash on hand when he
was s230.G6 in the hole7 That is Just
what Honest" Alex Brewer permitted
and authorized TO be done. II takes
your breath away, does It not, TO see
Honest" Alex Brewer do a thing like
that?
then called upon the city auditor
and asked why the water committees
report differed from tho books In the
auditors office. | was then advised
that the people who got up the water
report went over 10 the bank and
found that certain checks OF warrants
had not been presented for payment.
aud they decided to claim that the
cash in the bank should be the bal
anco on hand. knowing all the time
that enough checks or warrants had
been issued 10 eat up every dollar in
the bank. There WAS Just s.. .S94.S4 In
the bank. Then they looked up the
warrants that had not been paid and
cut them out of the report, and that Is
how the wateTworks shows cash on
hand June 30th OF over $4,000.
| asked. tho auditor how he could
20. X" the waterworks report when
on its face 1t showed it was wrong
Oh" he said. "wc made another re
port 10 harmonic with this one. We
had 10 keep things straight in our
Office. Please explain" / said, and
tho reply was The haTmonlZing re-
port showed The warrants that were
not paid" / asked permission to see
the Belf-adjusting "Harmonizer" II
was given TO We and | walked away
with II and 1 have II here and It
reads as follows;
! Auditors report OF audit flushed
Sept 25. 1909. Waterworks Depart
meDt, ogden City Corporation.
June Goth. 1909. over drift. $3.50 SO
Warrants outstanding June soth.
1903.
No eco. issued June 2Gth.
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