The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-29
"ANp WE WILL Do You-eooD!D

II the IcdutE VIII turn the AtltilCetil
party platform upside down, and read
the last line first, one will get very close
to the true purpose and effect Of that
aggregation's policy. Come with US,
and we will do you-good"
Starting there-and it is an exact copy
from the platform adopted yesterday at
the American party city convention
one gets light on the entire pronounce
ment Of the seIf-proclaimed patriots.
Also, one will get the only entirely true
statement in the whole platform. "Come
with US, and we viii do you-good!"
For they have.
Aside from that, the platform is less
frank. Starting with the extravagant
statement that the American party has
"upbuilt the city" the reader is treated
with much Of rhetoric, but little of fact
And the odd thing is that rhetoric
should be ventured in a city which
knows the facts.
Every dollars worth of street or side
walk or sewer improvement made in
Salt Lake within the past four years is
directly attributable to the law made
by a Republican legislature in 1901 and
1903. By those laws the means were
provided for every foot of paving and
every other Improvement that has been
made in Salt Lake City. Every foot!
Our friends who yesterday adopted
this f1amboyant platform came into
NTH he inc Of h.,
money into the treasury. And they have
spent the money. OF that there is not
the slightest doubt. OF the manner of
their spending it, Of the waste they
have made OF it, of the fattening they
have given their private purses by the
handling of it, they tell a waiting city
nothing.
One other phase Of the local situation
may be noted in this connection. The
platform on which their candidates will
go before the people declares at opposes
no religion" Which would be a good
story to tell wooden Indians before cigar
stores. Other auditors know the state
ment is utterly untrue. salt Lake peO-
pie are aware that the American party
is strictly and solely a party based on
church hatred; that its chief tenet is one
of religious persecution and church os-
tracism. Without that, their war cries
would be silent and their stock-in- trade
Of party spirit would be destroyed. The
American party is the party of religious
intolerance-and little else.
AS for their nominees, the expected
has happened. With the backing OF
Office behind him, with the grip Of the
appointive power safe in his hands, the
defeat Of any opposition was a foregont
conclusion. Mr.. Bransford is the nom
tnee, and he must stand on the record
he has made.
The ald-Republican greets the
opening Of the campaign with joy. Thi,
is the year to make an end of intoler.
ance; to return the city to normal polit
ical conditions; to deal fairly and hon,
estly with every man; to give a pro
gressive administration to the peopl,
without taking from them one dollar
more than is actually required in thu
public work to be done This is the yea
to establish the fact that Salt Lake car
be an American city without filing tn,
nation with calumniOus falsehoods abou
Salt Lake. This is the year when tn,
people can regain control Of their city
and continue it in keeping with tn
spirit of the age in which we live, and il
that better temper where every WORTHY
man is conceded all the rights that ev
cry worthy other man claims for him
self
This is the year when the Republican
party Of Salt Lake can nominate goot
men for every office, and elect them-t,
the everlasting benefit of all interests
and to the smallest damage Of no on
honest man, and not one worthy cause.