The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-30
HOT CANT PA|GN
IN MP|RE STATE
New York Is Reyeling in Poll
tics: Situation Is Most
Peculiar.
IMPORTANT IN BEARING
ON NATIONAL POLITICS
Campaigning With Feverish
Eagerness From Niagara
to COney Island.
BY RALPH JOHNSON.
ny Leased Wire to Tho Tribune.

ny Leased Wire to Tho Tribune.
NEW YORK. Oct. 2a,--New York is
rcveline in politics these days and the
political situation is ono OF the most
peculiar l recall. Politicians OF all
parties recognize that the state election
in New York this year is perhaps the
most important in its bearing on ma
tional politics that has been held since
the days OF Cleveland. They are cam
paiening with feverish eagerness from
Niagara Falls 10 Coney Island. but for
some reason or other the popu!ace re-
fuses to be cnthused. In fact great
many voters appear to he indifferent.
What does this portend? II all depends
OH whether you are talking 10 a Demo-
crat or a Republican. How is fhe cleo
tiou going? / have studied the situation
carefully from all angles and in q thor
oughty impartial spirit. and II is my
candid opinion that II VIII be much safer
not to express my judgment until after
morning OF November s.
Alliance Employment Bureau.
In a recent report Of the Alliance en-
ployment bureau, an institution affiliated
with half hundred OF the best known
social settlements and institutions In the
bureau said with us. an increase In
applications for work. up 10 a certain
point. betokens a normal growth; beyond
that point. il indicates hard times ,
necessity, times today must be better
Than they have ever been before II
the promise of Mrs. O'Connell is cor
rect, girls and boys today don't need to
come from the Alliance bureau for girls
and boys, Employers arc looking for
them. the bureau is begging for them
but they do not come why. ! could
place twenty more girls daily than I
have" said the president. land Miss
Brew, who has charge OF the boys de-
.partment is almost as bad off. for she
has at least five calls day mere than
she can accommodate Strange. too,
this situation, when IL is known that the
Alliance bureau makes a speciality of
placing unskilled girls and boys and
young men and women-even uneducated
ones.
Comnli ssion Form.
The commission form OF government
recently introduced in Colorado Springs,
Colo. places the affairs of the city alb
solutely on a business basis. according TO
eughly agree with A. j. Dayton. com
missioner of the public works and prop
erty, OF our city" said Mr.. Young. when
he says that under our charter the vot-
ficials for fheir fitness We have abol-
ished the old ward boundaries and have
limited the elective offices TO the. mayor
the city council and TO whom business is
entrusted There are no political nom
mating conventions
ANY person may be nominated" con-
tinued Mr.. Young. ION a petition signed
by twenty-five voters. each OF whom, as
the candidate. must make affidavit 10 the
effect that the nominee is not The rep
resentativc of any political or particular
Interest. No political or other designa-
stion Is allowed on the ballot.
Politics Eliminated.
Tho charter prohibits the making OF
appointments for political reasons, and
the greater portion Of the citys en-
ployees are under civil service. The term
OF office Is four years. The salary is
large enough 10 make II possible for
competen, men to devote their time 10
the city's interests. The charter makes
each commissioner directly responsible