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Show (I I Hobday and the '"Red Onion." I lij "In the name of God, why do you want to ' I carry this Red Onion business any farther?" ! 1 This from Councilman Hobday. May we ask, ' i! I i Mr. Hobday, in the name of the kind public, why H' 4 ' 2 t H i j 13 j you are so frantic over the mere proposal to re- H ' i H I W voke the license of the Red Onion? "Why you H- ! ( i iff invoke the intervention of providence to prevent H !, S! m the wiping out of this nauseous Commercial H ' ' ,t m ofroof maaa9 B1 ' i!i Hj street mess? Hi ! i 't'v H Be l5a-tient a moment and we will tell you. H ' j tjj! H v" You were placed on the license committee at H ' ! i lU ! mi tJl InstiBation of a prominent brewer of this city, - H - y gl from whoso houso the Red Onion brew is pur- B 3 I j 1 H chased. Mr. A. J. Davis, who Is likewise endeav- H ! 1 1 fl oring to have this matter hushed up, was made H 'lei w 9 chairman of that committee at the request of the B ! iijj 8 same prominent brewer. As there are only three H H B councilmen on the license committee, that gives B I' S you and Ir Davis entire control of that import- B ' 111, ; S ant committee, which is either a menace or a H II '''''' fl protection to the saloons of this city. H t 1 And that recalls the fact, Mr. Hobday, that it B i 1 'M was Councilman A. J. Davis who made the motion B 1 1 ; is at a former meeting that the mayor's communica- H I " i IB tion, recommending the revocation of the Red H II 5 !fi Onion license, be referred to the committee on H ! VI ' ' license. It is a task unpalatable to speculate on i' what you and Mr. Davis would have done had I 9 such a reference been made. ft And yet we will take the liberty of asking you fti one or two questions. ; B Would you not, as a mark of gratitude to the ! fl brewer who had you placed on the committee, and ( B who furnishes beer to the Red Onion, have made ! B an adverse report on the mayor's recommenda-ffl recommenda-ffl , j IX tion? Or, if such a report had not been made, 1 in would not you and Mr. Davis have squelched the H -I'll whole matter in the committee, where the voice S F SI of Mr Barnes the third member, would have been i ' i II about as availing as the appeal of a shipwrecked B 1 ill mariner to the unheeding billows? mwkw $1 iffiBi Another thing. Did the fact that the Tender- Wmm f 'HI I 'n Boss Bruce John has a lease on the Red B ''1 111 ft Onion building and owns a third interest In the l-m Hm saloon bias you in the least you or the three ! 1 1 1 fl councilmen from Mr. Johnson's precinct, JDavis, H ''I : ! 8 Neuhausen and Black? ft j j 8 And did you or Mr. Davis leave that un- BH m I IB signed communication in the city recorder's office, 8 U III requesting that notices be sent to practically all 8 ' wl 88 no members of the police force to appear at the 88 ' fH 88 council meeting as witnesses? And was that nol HB -I 88 done in order to make the alleged investigation SB HI about as grotesque a farce as possible? BB r. HB So mucn for your hysterical appeal on behalf BK 'fffl of this obnoxious Commercial street dive. IH k IB |