The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-28
NOT REPRESENTATIVE.

| n * claimed on behalf oil Inc oPpos''
,ion ticket in this city that 1t Is
representative ticket. that. it is made
nm without regard to politics or political
Affiliations, and that 1t carries the
names of good, conservative men,
This claim. however, must he aus
puted because it is untrue on It's facc'
The opposition ticket is made up WIN
exclusions. and IN strictly partisan
spirit. barring out every American from
| it3 list Of nominees. There is not one
| American in that whole list of candi-
dates.
This must be taken TO mean that
those who made up the opposition ticket
| do not consider that Americans are en-
titled 10 he called business men, repro
sentative citizens, or 10 be recognized
as having large interests as taxpayers
in this city.
WHY were Americans so strictly and
carefully excluded from the makeup OF
The so-callcd business men s ticket, II
the desire was simply TO have a husi-
ness men s. citizens, or nonpartisan
ticket? How does it happen that an
American cannot be considered busl,
ness man, taxpayer, nonpart,san, or
citizen for civic purposes
Every ono knows that the American
peer of the best. Every one knows
that Americans pay large amounts OF
taxes here, that they have substantial
interests, voter for voter at least the
equal aud probably the superior Of any
other class of Salt Lake citi1c nsblp.
And vet the opposition ticket, under
pretcnsc of putting up a nonpartrsan
ticket, business mems ticket, care
fully. and in the most bitter partisan
spirit. excluded every member of the
American party from its list
This is all the more significant. be,
cause the American party, besides hav-
ing i'll its membership large numbers
of the very best and most eminent
business men in the city. aud the heavi-
csl taxpayers, is also the party that is
in the ma iority in the city, IN control
Of the administration.
Why. then, if there was a genuine.
honest attempt to Get mp citizens or
business men S ticket. were all members
of the American party so carefully ex-
cludcdl
This exclusion tells its own story. IT
simply means that the ticket was got
up to oppose the American party in the
same old Federal bunch spirit of "auy-
thing to beat the Americans.
That ticket, therefore, is strictly and
in every sense, a partisan ticket, an
opposition ticket, narrow. gauge
fairly, and contrary to its own pre-
tense Of ponpartisanship, all members
OF the majority party IN the city, and
very great mass Of business men, tax.
payers, and faithful workers for the
progress Of Salt Lake.
To call ticket of that kind, made up
in such bitter partisan spirit, simply
as an opposition to the American party.
Il non partisan or business mon 5 ticket,
Is 90 falsify tho true conditions, and
Ia undertake TO mIslead the people \
genuine nonpartisan ticket could not
possibly bc made up without including
some of tho best citizenship of the
city, the heaviest taxpayers, members
Of the American party. Any ticket that
is made up so as to exclude them is
necessarily, aud by that very fact,
partisan ticket in its most odious form.
That is, such a ticket is false pre-.
tense, clear hypocrisy upon its face.
Any claim Of nonpartiSsnship for it is
Il sham, 4 trick. an open fraud.