The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-04
Random Gossip About Land.
slide That Carried Ameri-
can Party to Victory.
REVIEWED IN CALM, GRAY
DAWN OF MORNING AFTER
Pertinent and Personal Refer
ence to Tuesdays Happening
and How 1t Was Done.

satisfactorily, graUfSlngly over. Ev-
crybody--with rare exccD;ions-is glad
II happened as it did In every cleo
| tlon there are always few disgruntled
of course. Some men arc so consti-
tuted that if you gave them ice cream
they d complain because il wasn't
| fried. But, for the very great part.
| every one, i'm Salt Lake is thoroughly
and completely satisfied with what oc.
Cured Tuesday.
And there is ground for this feeling
| of peace and content and confidence.
| The community that is afflicted with
an clectIon-and most communities at
| one time or another are--is unfortu~
nate. Elections are bad medicine Cam
paigns engender hard feelings and put
| the brakes on business, and make q
man complain about his wife IS biscuits
Just because she happened 10 remark
that she was going to vote the other
way. When the election is over ev-
orybody resumes the even tenor Of his
way, save those who resume the base.
So II happens that Wednesday morn
ing s sunrise found Salt Lake in II
happy frame of mind. There was Il
| feeling Of assurance in the atmosphere
sents roster outlook than ever be-
| fore
This feeling is shared alike by the
GENTLE and The Mormon. The Gentle
knows absolutely that he is going to
make money in the years that are i'm
mcdiatcly ahead; the Mormon knows
that If the Gentle makes money, he
too, must prosper. 1T takes a pretty
sim sort Of revelation TO make even
a Mormon believe that it IS good thing
to have his property go to decay. Ben
Bolt, and TO get along without water
and sewers and paving and electric
lights. He has come to realization
that this is precisely what would have
happened had the American party been
defeated. He realizes that the people
who ran as candidates on the other
tickets represented the political church,
and = very small cotcrie of it. taken
Ipluraljy, az that He realizes that this
/ political church dominated the caudi-
dates and the parties, and he remem-
bercd what had been the conditions
III this town when the church wos in
control. He recalled the DAYS when
campaign paradcs marched down Main
street in mud six inches deen, and he
looks at Main street now and is forced
to the acknowledgment that wonders
have been wrought. end that it wasu I
the political representative Of the po-
litical church that wrought them
Realizing these things. the Mormon
fully two thousand of him-voted
the American ticket Tuesday. He saw
IN his mInd $ eye the steam rollers
surfacing the street on which his house
and lot arc, and he saw the men dig
glug trenches for water mains. aud
| presently he saw street cars passing
the, door, and one day he found him.
self refusing an offer Of $4,000 for
his house aud lot that were worth
| eye got in its work, he pulled the
first lever he came to-the Mormon
did.
The Mormon who did this sacrificed
much in conscience, He felt like
rebel, and, indeed, he was one Two
years ago the idea OF disobeying the
bishop or the block teacher would have
staggered him, but this year be found
| himself looking upon 500 per cent
| increase III the value of his property
| on The ono hand and frown on the
other, and he chose the profit and de-
fed the frown.
When he had done this he suddenly
awolle TO the fact that the priesthood
had been doing it all along-ouly in n
choosing the profit Just the same.
The only means of Judging the future
| is by taking account of the events of
| the past. The administration Of Mayor
| BrauSford and the American MAYOR
who preceded him justified the expcc
| tations Of those who put them in office
! They did everything and moro than thcv
pledged themselves TO do--much more.
And this they did i'll the face Of m
opposition that was at once bitterly
and malicIously hostile and pcevish-a
| peevlsh man is worse than Il hang
nail,
Having done these things in the past
| paved the streets, laid sidewalks. cut
down The unsightly poles in the streets.
extended sewer mains and laterals. kept
the town in d fine sanitary condition,
lnStilled a confidence in the mind of
the man with mopov TO invest, guar.
anteed the safety of life and property
with Il police force /and ere depart
mcnt of unsurpassed excellence. in.
duced buildIng-haviug done all
these things in the past,0 is there any
good reason. or any reason at ALL to
doubt that vet greater things viii be
done IN the future?
Already Mayor Bransford Is plans
for the continued Improvement OF Salt
Lake are we'll defined They encompass
a scheme of progress whose scope can
scarcely he measured. These plans, be-
ing well defined, are easier in the
carrying out now than would have been
the case had the American party been
dethroncd for two years.
The Mormon who voted for Mr..
Brausford need lose no sleep on the
score that there is to be any halt in
the sturdy march forward.
1t is Interesting to reflect on the
success of Ed. o Donncl in the Sec.
ond. The opposition worked claw and
fang to bring about . 'Dopnell s de-
feat, and certainly scurvy tricks were
resorted to, tricks that no sclf-respect-
,pc, ,,olifici1u woull Stnnn ~ l,uf