Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-30
cosTIiY BLuNDERs.


"a ccortling to the so-callcd American
party organ the blunders Of one 'Aih 's'l' &
lean official have cost the city over
100000. How much more nave tlies
blunders OF the others cost? Let tue
r,eople have tile entire record Of incoln-l
potency and graft.
The z" News has all along told the
citizens that the so-calied American
administration has proved itself lneoii'1g
Spetent. The paving on some OIL &liie
streets furnishes an ocular demons ira.
Hon of this fact So does the miserable
attempt to connect the pumping pilfl u
With gravity sewer on the West slda,
III has also told the public that the ad-.
administration is extravaganza. But 4oo' u =.
statements have been denied by t1e
I organ as coming from a paper opposeE
Ia improvements The News, 1liw-a
ever. is vindicated by the organ ltselt,
in the showing made that one oItlc .l'l
alone has cost the City over SlVo,ooo.
The Mayor is quoted as haylng. toiu d
s friend on one occasion that q business
administration could save atoo $500 up9
! q year: il the party bosses woula hoe
interfere. Whether the Mayor IS cor
-ectly quoted or not. does not MATER.
i Froni the statement made in the organ
n Ii does not seem improbable Ntn nlat such
u sum could be saved. 1t SCENTS very
proballe that the administration mas
cost the taxpayers 100000 year on
account OF plumbers.
,she organ would not have made TINS,
revelation but for the fact that ING
official referred to has had enough OF
sso-csiiled I. american" policy a1d@ says
he viii bolt the ticket. The organ at Ut:
lacks him, not because his plumbers
have cost the City over s1Oo, 600, but pc
/ cause he signifies his intention OF de-
sorting the party The organ has known 10 s.
#ofthis ttblunders'' before but not of MS
attended descrtion, and 1T. true 10 I'VE s
instincts, attacks him for not staying
by the gang.
This attack is q warning to others
\ Of the party who may intend to leave
the engine before the crash comes. =
they do the organ will spring upon
tl1em like Il lynx from Its lair. They
L have got to stay with the crowd, or be
publicly horse whipped. 1t is the or
gan's business to see to that. II mas no
higher ideal of the mission Of q news
PAPER than to flay everyone who dare ares
TO disagree with It.
The present attack Is IA Their amusing
though. 1t says that CITY Engineer
4 Kelsey would have the public UNDER
stand that he does not care fore the
Z American party except in so far as no.
party will maintain him on the payiolls
at q fat stlary.'' Well, who does?
What did the party spring into exist
/ ence for, except the payrolls? And 1t
was not the paylolls of the party
either, but of the City, that looked good
+ to the originators OF that political phe-
nomenon.
The so-called American. party was
originated for the purpose OF capturing
7. first the City offices and then the coun--
ty, and, finally, the Legislature, for the
furtherance of the political ambition
3lof offlce-seekers unworthy of public
trust. OF course the organ denies this
{ 1t is its business TO deny the truth IN
this matter and to give some more gem
tile excuse for the existence of modern
& Know Nothingisnn." but that was the
only reason for calling the party into
existence. Had ambition obtained the
+ promises of support it sought, there
would have been no .Anericann marty