The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-04
CHURCH ORGAN SNARLING,

The Deseret News on Tuesday nigh,
found a good deal of quibbing fault
with an Interview which Mayor Brans
ford gave TO the Los Angeles EXPIRES:
of April 9th. We have not seen the
interview III its entirety, but from the
extracts made from il and references
to it by the Deseret News, we Judge
that IL must have been pretty good
interview. In il Mayor Bransford SET
forth the necessity for the American
party in Salt Lake and in Utah, gave
an account of some of its magnificent
work here, and Of the spirit of progress
which it infused into this municipality.
He also paid his respects to the blight
Ing rule of the hierarchy, and to the
paralysis which that rule afflicts a com.
munity with where it prevails Mayor
Bransford said, it appears, that "Salt
Lake City had been removed from the
class of overgrown towns; it is a city
of consequence; its government has
been cleansed; the distressing condi-
tions which placed it under the domi.
nation of an ecclesiastical hierarchy
have been overcome; that "adequatc
water and sewer systems have been
| Installed. Thirty miles of some of the
finest streets in the city have been
laid, twenty-five miles under Mayor
Bransford s directions. Men like
Samuel Newhouse and Thomas Kearns
have invested millions Of dollars in
modern office buildings. Today even
the most bitter opponents Of the Amer
lean party admit that this remarkable
development was due largely to its in.
fluenee.' y And that is fair, mod
crate statement of facts that every.
body knows.
Undertaking to contraycne Mayor
Bransford s statements in this respect,
the News airs itself as follows:
The Mayor did not tell the people Of
Los Angeles that the adequate water
cd should he credited To the Morris ad-
ministration. He did not say that the
paving under his administration costs
several per cent more than il would have
he said that the magnificent building en-
terprlses of Mr.. Newhouse had any rea-
tion TO the American party he made Il
statement that he cannot defend. for Mr.
Newhouse made his gigantic plans with
out political considerations. and as for
Mr., kearns's office building, that was
can party in the county election. And
that the opponents Of the American
party admit that the party should have
is on the contrary. true that IL is con-
sldered by many that the failure of Utah
to hold Its own In the matter of increase
in population Is due to the slanders which
American party leaders have circuiat-
cd about Utah.
Mr.. Bransford is wise. He talks
abroad Of the achievements OF his party.
Al home the people would point to tho
morally rotten conditions that obtain un-
der that party's regime,
Since the Mayor is gentleman
who does not willfully lie. but aims
to tell the truth, of course he
did not say that the adequate
water and sewer system and the
money needed for it should he cred.
tied to the Morris administration. Ger
tainlv not for the Morris administra-
tion is not entitled to that credit. 1t
voted the bonds which provided that
money. IT was The Tribune's support
that carried the election for those
bonds Such work as had been begun
under the Morris administration had to
he taken up and amended by the
American administration which sue
ceeded in order to prevent the fail
ure of the whole project
Mr.. Bransford did not say that the
paving under his administration cost
several per cent more than it would
have cost under an efficient govern
ment. because that is not the truth.
If he said that the Newhouse buiId.
ing and the Kearns building were the
outgrowth of the American victory and
motives, he said the precise truth. be-
cause Mr.. Newhouse made no move
whatever until the American admins
tration had thoroughly demonstrated
its ability to redeem and vitalize the
city. Senator Kearns had planned
and announced his office building be.
fore the county election referred TO,
through his confidence in the vital
growth of the city which had been as
sured by the American. progress and
American control. The county election
had nothing whatever to do with it. no
more than the State election. or any
other election, save only the city elec.
tions WHICH. carried by the Americans
gave the confidence in which the con.
struction was pursued. We recall the
News snarling at our claim of Ameri-
can vital PROGRESS. asked on an occa
sion, "What has Kearns done?'' and
tha; was when he was about to begin
his structure.
Whether all the opponents of the
American party admit that this party