The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-12
THE GRAFTERs' OWN IS Ratified.


may get some money through legitimate
sources of taxation to carry on the mag,
nificept improvements that are being
made in this city. Every one who has
passed through Salt Lake in the past
four years is full of admiration for
city administration; for the vitalizlng
effects of Americansm upon this met
ropolis. II has never been conte~ ed at
any time that a legitimate revenue was
work What is contcnded is that the
American party has more to show for
the money it has received than any
other administration within the boun-
daries of this State
The organ Of the grafters and those
concerned in its production made them
selves offensive TO all decent people in
this county by their raid upon and de.
feat of the honest county officials that
were seeking denomination. This re-
nomination was denied them Or no rca-
son U,.atever except their honesty and
faithful public service. Their compe-
tence was beyond question. Their faith
fulness was evidenced IN their efforts
to protect the public against the graft
crs who defeated them. Their zeal for
the public interest was the cause of
their defeat. The people connected with
the organ of the grafters were the ones
chiefly responsible for the defeat of
these honest candidates; and now these
same graftcrs have the unlimited gall
to raise their hands in horror at the
American administration needing money
to carry on the splendid work that it
is accomplishing.
But what are the county officials do
ing TO improve the county, and make it
come forward in some degree commcn-
suratc with the advancement of the
city9 They have done absolutely moth
ing. They bave not even attended to
the making of roads as the legislative
euactments contemplated that they
would do. The road money has been
spent in building roads TO the resi-
dcnces of the officials out in the coun-
try, and of their friends. The general
public is absolutely neglected. Chair
man Loofbourow in his speech TO the
Republican county convention made a
point of praising the road work done
by the county comm ssioncrs. That
praise, however. was simply irony, or
else it was sheer nonsense. There has
been no road work worthy = the least
commentator. AS Tho Tribune has
shown the State road toward Murray
is in shocking condition. and has been
for two years past, The repairs, so
called, and filling now being done, arc
of the worst sort of ignorant road
butchery. Dry quicksand is used, which
is drag when dry and morass VEN
wet. Inc road to Bingham is a stand
ing disgrace, and is complained Of by
all residents Of that important place
n otbing is palmer than that there ought
to be first-class road direct from Salt
Lake City to Bingham. Nothi.r is moro
absolutely true than that there is no
such road. We arc informed, also, that
the bridges so fervently praised by
Chairman Loofbourow are sheer myth.
But one bridge has been passed upon
and constructed by the commissioners
within the past two years.
What else is there that the county
can show for the money expended ?
There has been an enormous county
revenue and prcat loss of that revenue
by graft in the infirmary accounts. in
pretty much every account, but more
especially in tho heay. contingent
drafts made by the commissioners u"pn
the treasury. True county Jail has
been built, but at tremendous impos-
tion on the taxpayers. A county hospi-
tai is in contemplation which is a sheer
piece of graft from inception to finish.
There is not the least need of such a
hospital After it is built the county
patients cannot be- treated there as
well as or at as small cost as in the
hospitals in this city, which have ample
room for them and which can treat them
better and more economically than the
county can do, even aftor il gets it's
hospital completed. The hospital Job is
Simply piece of partisan imposture, for
the purpose of installing favorites in
sineeurc county positions.
The county graft is something scan
dalous. 1t has been open. obvious to all.
The graft of nearly $4,000 TO the Smoot
" Mouth - for the recovery Of which a
suit is now pending in the courts was
matter of public indccency, and vel
the grsfters stole thc money right out
from the hands OF the taxpayers in
spite Of all that could be done, and
defeated tho candidates who had
sought to protect the t: asury from the
| theft. The successor to that eraftinp
concern now raises the protest against
the city obtaining just revenue for the
prosecution Of its magnificent improve
ments, When corrupt concern Like that