The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-27
AMERICAN TICKET
IS FAR SUPERIOR
Men of Ability and Expert
ence Selected for Every Of
flee to Be Filled.
STAND FOR PROGRESS
Defeat of Americans Would
Mean Turning Back 10 Pol
icy of Stagnation.
STAND FOR PROGRESS

With only twelve candidates for city
office the voters at the city election
ono week from next Tuesday VIII nave
little trouble in selecting the best men
for the offices From comparison OF
the candidates for each office the
Americans cannot but benefit.
AS 10 the parties and their suppot'
tho Americans have all the best or NJ
The American ticket is supported py
the progressive element OF the com
muniiv. Those who want the city to
continue it's remarkable growth ana
prosperity that it has enjoyed under
the American administration will vote
for A continuance OF American RUE:
Those who wish a return TO the days or
retrocression, a cessation of the Woik
on public Improvements and halt IN
the growth of the city will Vote for the
Citizens ticket. The only issue IS
progress or rctrogressIon.
Reason for Success.
All Americans who have cast their
ballots for the American party anu
progress in the past will continue TO
vote for progress and to ENJOY prosper
ity under American rule. In addition
to the American vote the American
ticket should receive the ballots OF the
independent voters. In addition to tue
broad principles o. progress ana ad-
vaucement espouscd by the American
party the American ticket has to rec
ommeud il To the independent VOTERS
candidates whose record for honesty, ct-
ficiencY aud capacity cannot be lnl-
pcsched. Capability and experience
arc combined IN the candidates put
forward bv the American party. After
an honest comparison Of tho indiyldual
cf 9 na Auya
cts the voter will certainly be con
,inccd of the superiority Of the Amer
lean candidates.
John S. Bransford, American canGi-
date for mavor. is completing his sec
on1 elective term as mayor OF SAT-
Lake He was appointed TO the oftice
of mayor by the city council i'm August.
1907. aud has been the head Of the mu-
nicipal Government since that time: HIS
administration has been II record of
progress in salt Lake. Aided by au
American city couucjl Mavor Brans-
ford has accomplished wonders in the
Improvement OF the city. 1t is largely
due to the Bransford administration
that Salt Lake City today is one of
tho most attractive and most cnterpiis-
ing cities in the country. American
plans now being carried out coutcm-
plate making such improvements for
the city that IT viii make Salt Lake
one Of the foremost Of tho western
c'ties-a place that cannot fail to nroyc
inviting for the hundreds Of thousands
who viii pass through Salt Lake en-
route TO the great exposition TO he held
ia San Francisco in 1915.
Need for Experienced Men.
To make nj tnc new commission form
of government in Salt Lake success
al. II a
proper administration of the govern
ment and cspecialIv 10 the changing of
1 nc municipal government from the old
plan to the new TO educate ineXperl
enced officials TO the duties of nuni-
cipal government is likely to prove
expensive. Mayor Bransford has had
the requisite experience and he is
thoroughly familiar with all of the de-
tails OF the present form OF govern
mont and viii DC in an excellent posi-
tIon 10 make the change from tho old
est possible economy and with the least
possible interruption of the municipal
business.
Sam e.. Park, Citizens nominee for
MAYOR. had TO he urged TO accept The
nomination BY tho Citizens committee.
He declared that he could iii afford TO
devote his time and energy 20 the at
teution OF ihc affairs of the city, Pr-
vHte business cares, he said were so
great that he did not kuow how he
could arrange to divide his time. MIR,
Park has had no experience ia municipal
affairs. He served orc term as Re.
puls|Icar in the state sepatc He was
defeated for rcnomina'iou in his party
convention in 1905. The only other
elective position which Mr.. Park has
held is that Of member of tho school
board from the Second ward. posi-.
tiou Nhich hc now holds. Mr. Park was
4 member of the military staff of Coy.
John 4. Cutler ard an officer of the
state militia ii tho time il MAS sent ia
Carbon county an the occasion Of the
strike of the coal miners His nomi.
nation for MAYOR eyo'utcd from lunch.
con gwen at tho Commercial club bv
George u. kcyser whcn the so-called
- business men So movement Was in
nugUraied. The so-callcd ''bnsiuess
men 8 movement: later became the
''CItlzens non partisan movement.