The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-23
NO DENIAL OF THE FACTS.

There is absolutely no possibility OF
denying the immense benefits that the
American party has conferred upon Salt
| Lake City. The facts show for them
selves, They cannot bc denied; they
need no argument TO sustain them. They
are on view in all parts of tho city.
! The American party won the munici.
pal election in 1905 at time when the
city was dead, paralyzed by the deadly
! grip of ccclcsiasticism; when it was los.
ing in population and wealth and was
discouraged as To its future. But i'm.
mediatcly upon the news of the Amcri.
can victory OF that year being tcle.
graphcd through the country, a tre-
mcndous revival set in The decay was
instantly stopped aud live vital forces
substituted.
The American party took hold Of the
busincSs-like manner. and succeeded
where the former administration had
failed. II looked over the city and saw
the needs in more aud larger water
mains and in better djsributive syS-
ten. 1t responded TO those needs by
putting in larger mains and more Of
them, providing a, dislrihutive system
sufficient for all, and that has kept
pace with all demands ever since.
II added TO the sewers: il added TO
the street paving; 1t multiplied the eN-
tent Of sidewalks, II found seven miles
of street paving; IL added sixteen miles.
II found scvcuty.two miles of side
walk: it added one hundred aud eighty
five miles. It found fifty.siX miles of
sewer it added scvcutyfour miles. Ii
found ono hundred aud forty five miles
of water mains; it added upwards Of
fifty miles. aud even more in iucrcas-
ing the size Of large number of those
mains, 1t found thirteen miles of
curbs and cutters; it added forty-one
miles.
In all this it has not increased the
municipal taxes in three years, aud has
added bur 100000 in bonds of tho city
to the SI.lO0.0o0 which it found out.
standing
service. IT, i magnificent fiuaucicrng
The American party has conducted, aud
is conducting the business Of the city
as intelligent. practical business men
would conduct their own business, get.
ting the best possible returns for the
money.
And what a magnificent appearance
the city presents, Vital progress is
seen on every hand. 1t is the admira-
tiou of every visitor, the boast Of every
tourist The tens of thousands Of
travellers who visit this city every year
carry 10 their homes cast, west, north
and south, the most enthusiastic ac-
counts of what they find in Salt Lake
in the way Of municipal improvements.
vital growth. additions 10 population.
and such tremendous building activity
as they have never seen before in their
lives
The people Of this city are now asked
to reverse all this. 20 stop the progress.
to turn the control Of the city back TO
the old. paralvzing hands from which
il was rescued four years ago. Bui the
people of this city. being IN a large
majority progressive. intelligent people,
have no idea of committing any such
folly. They stand firm with thr Ancri-
can party. knowing its record. under,
standing and apprcciatiug the immense
services winch il has conferred upon
Salt Lake City. The second day Of
November next viii see another Ameri-
can triumph even more pronounced than
any that have gone before. and that
is precisely what iS due the American
party. due 20 the city. and duo 10 The
instincts of our intelligent
people 1t is due also as Il Just reward,
as proper rccompcnsc on the theory
that Que who has done excellent service
deserves the pIaudit. ''Wcll done. good
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