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VOL. XXII. Twelfth Year SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, NOVEMBER 8, 1913 5 Cents thTCopy NpfT? o M
, WHAT HAPPENED LAST TUESDAY.
You can't lose him the fellow who knew
just how the election was going. He told Bill
Jones last Sunday Shearman would be high man,
j and Keysor would bo last. "VVhy, he laughed at
I Cannon's friends' forecasts of victory for their
candidate. And he told a man, up in front of
Jim McGarry's old place, at noon on election
day, just what the First District would do and
Forest Dalel Why, he had the suburb down to a
dot. Yes, he did. But he didn't bet any. I heard
one of thoso fellows talking all the time while
Mr. Kcyscr may view the election
With somothlng approaching- dejection,
nut ho shouldn't curse.
r, It might have been worse
Just how, quite escapes my detection.
I the barber was cutting my hair, and I wondered
' why he didn't bank on Keysor for low man. Hvi
could have had a hundred to one.
To me, it seems an expression of disapproval
for the city commissioners maybe for the whole
scheme of a city commission. People who
wanted to so oxpross themselves polled about
their strength. Evidontly the other side didn't.
Either they didn't realize the situation, or they
didn't care.
Organization had a good deal to do with it.
I don't think Shearman and Wells could have
boon beaten, but the majorities are larger bc
causo particularly of Mr. Shearman's com
mittee. It was composed of practical men,
and was managed industriously. Probably Mr.
Koyser spent as much money as they. But he
spent it differently and lost. Not that the
Shearman method included any improper prac
tices. Nothing could havo oloctod Keysor on
Tuesday. But a broader roach than his man-
Leaves havo their times to Tall, and nowors to wlthor,
like a common plant.
All seasons have their boom and bust, and so, likewise,
has Grant.
agor was permitted cortainly would havo kept
down the opposing majorily. Thorn is much in
organization. There is whoro the battles are
I won.
Also, I boliovo Keysor was elected on Sunday.
The Herald-Republican editorial on Monday Was
a broadside. People had not thought much of
of tho matter. The ro-oli'ction of Iho commis
sioner was headed to a certainty. Tho editorial
hit essential facts, and made its statements ad-
mirably. The thing came at the psychological
moment. It roused like si douche of cold water
on tho naked skin. Tho Telegram and the News
woro instantly on the defensive their explana
tion completing tho effect tho editorial had be
gun. And oven the Tribune next morning made
effort to stem or divert the tide, That editorial
alone didn't chango the Sunday Keysor prospecC
to a Tuesday Shearman triumph but it helped,
amazingly. ,
Govornor Wells couldn't have lost. And tho
Mr. Tuddonham made a good race
A any could wish In his place;
Dut his boastrul remark
He saved Pioneer Park
Wns moro than tho public could face.
gontlemon having chargo of city affairs will be
the giinors l)y tho presence of one of the very
foremost men in Western America. f-
Some people hopo tho result will mean tho
condition described by tho words "an open
town." There aro changes that doubtless will
be made in the polico department especially.
But any tendency to take off tho lid would fou'
unfortunate. Tho best way to shut this town
up tight would bo a return to conditions that
existed years ago. Salt Lake wants all tho busi
ness it can get. But unless you want Blue Sun
day to last all the week, don't ask tho commis
sioners to take off the lid. For if you do, tho
second and the third and tho fourth and tho
fifth will swoop down upon you at tho noxt
oleotion, and make you sing:
There is a Happy Land,
Far, far away.
Wo had it in our liand,
Bright,, bright as day!
But wo took off tho lid
Damn our fool souls so we did I
Now wo must play the kid
Ever and ayol
ABOUT THE SECRET FUND.
I am by no moans sure that the city author
ities can laugh tho Harry Robinson case out of
court, Harry is demanding publication of the
expenditures of what is known as tho "secret
fund." It seems that in every city an amount
of money, not very accurately regulated, is
placed at the disposal of tho mayor, to bo chiefly
used through tho polico dopartmo U in tho de
tection of crime, tho pursuit of suspects, the
collection of evidence, and tho general work of
maintaining order. Tho theory is that the
money necessarily is spent for such purposes as
can not, in the public interest, be made public. k
But I rather doubt if that is a tenable position. M
Of course no ono questions Mayor Park's M
honosty. Ho doesn't need bo told that, But yet m
the plain terms of tho law may require that the B
Mr. Cannon, I fancy, has scon, mm
By reading: tho lines between, H
That experience Is lost, H
In tho Judgment or most iH
Tor tho follow that beat him is Green. Ijl
details of tho expenditure bo open and acces- M
siblo to every citizen just as aro expenditures M
oven tho minutesU in tho street department, or L
any other branch of tho city's business, fl
I know it is customary for tho polico de- fl
tfartmont to have a fund available, and that its fl
Spending is supposed to be secret. And yet, if M
citizens should ask what was done witli the fl
monoy, how will officials do them? It is tho H
citizons-' money. JM
Responding to inquiries along this lino, the H
Mayor recently submitted tho record of this H
fund's handling to a committee of very promi- M
nont and deservedly honored Salt Lake men, and H
they testify that tho monoy has been wisely M
spent, and wholly in tho intorost of the city.
But no ono else has enjoyed a like opportunity H
to study the record of that fund. Others may be '
interested, and others cortainly havo a citizen
right to know. And I question if tho knowledge M
can bo refused if tho caso is pushed to trial. fl
This by no moans is an endorsement of Mr.
Robinson, nor a criticism of any expenditure of M
tho fund in question. To bo frank, I wouldn't
like to give Harry Robinson tho running of this H
town. But if he hasn't a case, I'm fooled. H
Mr. Shearman Is fixed for Tour years M
With a Job and good pay, it appears. M
Ho will g-lvo to Salt Lake H
Ills best olTorts, and take H
A vordlct Indorsing. Throe cheers! H
THE OUTRAGE IN OGDEN.
Thoro aro some things ono can't do with tho fl
English language. For instance, ono cannot ox- mm
press just what ono fools regarding tho mariv or E
men who domandod blackmail of Ogden citizens, m
and dynamitod tho rosidonoo of ono who declined jH
to comply. One cannot say what one thinks of H
the failure to stop those outrages long ago. And H
ono can not nearly say what fate the guilty H
man deserves. H
If that business cannot bo stopped, if the ''H