The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-24

the water department beOrdered TO con-
meet a e-inch water main with the in
tercepting sewer, as there was not water
enough in the sewer TO force the cleaning
scraper through ft-clearly showing that
If Kennedy & Co. had finished their con-
uact IN accordance with the plans and
specificians there would have been no
extra water TO pump, and the city should
not under any circumstances have paid
one cent.
There should not have been paid one
cent of the $4,000 which tho city
turned over to James Kennedy ana
company as a gift, to the great injury
of Salt Lake.
Murdoch's Platform.
Nov, ladies and gentlemen. when 1
have the honor of being elected mayor
of salt Lake City, / will to the best
of my ability safeguard the interests
of all the people in SO far as / am
able. with the assistance of the coun-
ell and the heads of departments. There
Will be equal rights extended to all
and special privileges to none. will
endeavor to bring about competition
in all classes of public contracts and
beg to assure all bidders that they will
receive, fair and courteous treatment
Il favor public improvements Of al
kinds that will add to the comfort and
Wellbeing of this community. Every
family in this city is justly entitled TO
liberal supply of pure water. Cement
sidewalks should and must be extend
ed wherever the people desire them,
and are willing to furnish the money
to defray the cost of constructing the
same. Sewers should and must be eX-
tended In all directions and connections
to same enforced in order that the pub
lie health may not suffer, and the ever
recurring periods when contagious dis
eases prevail in our fair city may be
eliminated as far as possible.
Il favor street paving wherever the
abutters on the streets TO be paved
q tRl a
the improvement made, in so far as the
city is able to pay for its share Of
the expense OF the proposed improve
ment. I condemn the methods here
tofore in vogue of the party in power
taking the initiative I'm inaugurating
improvements without the knowledge
or consent Of the property owners
along the line of the proposed Improves
menf, and carried out with the osten-
stble purpose In view Of furnishing IA
vored contractors with large jobs at
exorbitant prices to the great injury
Of the taxpayers of Salt Lake.
Il favor and will constantly endeavor
to limit contracts, in size and extent,
in order that the man or men with
limited capital may have an oppOrtu-
nifty to get their share of all public
work, and on all large Jobs so to di-
vide the work that parties equipped
with tools and machinery to perform
part of the work may come in cOmpe-
tlhon with those who are prepared to
do all the labor and furnish all the ma
terial to complete the same.
I viii expect the heads Of all de-
partmeIts SO TO conduct them that
they may merit public approval and
in the employment of su5ordinateS they
should be selected because Of their fit
ness to perform efficient service and
not because of their political activity.
I cordially recommend the proposition
now under. consideration by the school
/ beard of this city to build and equip a
magnificent High school building that
u q a nv
grand school buildings we now possess,
and be q source of delight and adlnira-
ton to all the friends of education at
home, as well as the admiration Of all
our visitors from abroad, and will
gladly vote for bonds to build the same.
In conclusion, ladies and gentlemen,
permit me to say will extend the same
courtesies, If I am called upon to fill
| this office, to the working man in his
overalls as 1 will to those of our citi-
| zens who may be better supplied with
/ the necessaries and the Injuries of
everyday life, remembering always that
/ l, too, have been working man and am
proud to acknowledge it I firmly be-
/ lieve that public office is a public
/ trust, and the acts of public men are
fit sub jects for public criticism Public
and as such are responsible only to the
people"
Senator Sutherland was introduced by
/ Chairman Eevine, who said: Ladies and
.
/ trodVce 10 you speaker to whom a Salt
Lake audience is always glad to listen,
Senator George Sutherland"
Senator Sutherland said:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen
l have been away from Salt Lake So
much of the time during the past year OF
1 two that l am not particularly familiar
with tie various local questions which
| have disturbed the people from time tC
/ time to discuss them in any sort of de-
/ tail. In what I shall have to say to you
! therefore, ] shall be more or less general
/ However, 1 am saTed the necessity of any
detailed discussion OF these questions By
/ the very Adorable and concise and en-
| lightened speech which has just been de-
| livered TO you by the next mayor of Salt
Lake. I think If anybody in this audi
/ ence had any doubt about the wisdom OF
( his nomination by the party, that doubt
has been dissipated by the speech which
/ he has just delivered. No mistake was
made in his nomination, and no mistake
will be made by his election.
1T is a serious misfortune for any com,
munity when its elections are contested
| not upon any question OF political or gov
| ernmental issue, but upon social or re-
] ligious differences of opinion merely
| Such a state Of affairs IS neither norma
nor healthful. There are, for example
as everyone comedies, certain great evil:
connected with the undue concentration
Of vast wealth in the hands Of a few. anC
yet everybody who possesses common
I
ceedingly unfortunate thing il all thos'
| who have not were to be arrayed in elec
ton against all those who have. Such {
division of all the poor against all tn'
rich; such a contest between eitizeni
uDon the sole ground Of the difference o.
social position. would bring about newt
ably a condition of intense and bittel
class hatred, where prejudice would TAX
the place of reason, and which, IN TN
end, would result injuriously, II not dis
fas CT both classes.
An Unfortunate Situation.
$40 nv mind. it Is no less unfortunate
when the division is along religious rathe
than along political or economical lines
Men do not reason with one another un
der such circumstances. They hurl cpl
thets and abuse and denunclauon, II w
exercise our good sense, we must know
that such a condition can result IN M
good. If is bad for those who are iTnme
diateiv engaged in it, and 1t is bad fo
the people among whom such contro
Xersv exists II good fellowship exist
in such a community, Il prosperity at
tends the efforts of such a people, II
CITY where it occurs grows and thrive
and becomes more beautiful, l am SUR
that il is not because OF that unhapp.
state OF affairs.
THAT such a condition does exist il
Salt Lake today; that It has existed 10
the past four years, is no Iauit OF IN
We must meet it and deal with it as bes
we may.
And so we find ourselves once NOR
in the anomalous position of being calle'
upon, not to explain or defend the prin
ciples of our party, but to justify 1t
right to exist at all for, If the American
party is right in all its claims, the Repub
iican party and the Democratic party ar
wrong. and so wrong that they ought t
disband their organizations and go out o
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But the American party is not right, an
the existence and activity OF the nationa