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Show THE CITIZEN Marshall thinks he can shoulder Edwards into second place and take the lead. SERYATION PLANE The appeared before the Richmond, Va., Bar Association not an organization of bar tenders, by the way and declared that the prohibition amendment to the constitution would not have received twenty votes in the. senate if the senators had voted behind closed doors. vice-preside- Underworld Thrives On Civic Apathy The Democratic ring, entrenched at the city hall and conducting the police department, is operating a wide-ope- n town in the face, of gathering protests. Nightly men are losing their wages in gambling joints or surrendering it to bootleggers while their wives and children go without the necessaries of life. Never was the traffic in liquor, never was gambling more rampant than now. The Democratic ring takes the view that it is simply paying its debt to the underworld for votes garnered in the last election. For some reason those anti-vic- e leagues and organizations which become so vocal at election time seem to have sunk into a state of lassitude. They have lost their voices. What has become of those inveterate chastisers of Demon Rum and all manner of vice? What has become of those who used to go out on the housetops to shout about the reign of vice? n The city was never so as it is at present. and so graft-riddeAnd our city commissioners preserve a mouse-lik- e silence. They are afraid that some one will cry boo at them and frighten them into hysterics. Even a good bishop can regard the wide-ope- n town with equanimity. As a city commissioner he knows what is going on, but as a bishop he is in complete darkness. The commissioner ear is keen, but the bishop ear is deaf. . . 0 vice-ridde- n 0 The reign of the underworld, in all brazen its effrontery, could be brought to an end if the respectable citizens would interest themselves in the issue. The bootleggers, the gamblers, the confidence men, the guns and grafters thrive on silence. Occasionally the police raid one of the many gambling dens. A few arrests are made, the circumstances are duly recorded in the newspapers and the gambling den opens once more. In this way the public is led to believe .hat the police are fulfilling their gation to enforce the law. obli- The other day the als club in Regent street was raided and a number Q of arrests were made. The activity of the police was recorded in the newspapers and thus the public was lulled into the false notion that every effort was being made to suppress gambling. But at the very time the raid on the Tals club was made a dozen other places were in full operation. On Main street, over one of our most fashionable stores, is a gambling resort which is very popular because it seems to be immune from interference. It is conducted by professional gamblers conspicuous in other years. If the purity squad were really in earnest there would be several dozen raids a week instead of but one. One raid a week is not sufficient even to disturb the squanimity of the gamblers. They regard it as a measure of protection, because it helps to deceive the public. Money Can Be Recovered From. Bock's Company The Citizen citizens when the fact that the Edwards fulfilled nt Mr. Marshall, entered upon his public career as an opponent of the liquor traffic, and his sudden conversion to the cause of rum and ruin has caused n the League severe distress in the regioh of its cerebellum. Anti-Saloo- ofthe fending is all the more notorious from the fact that, on the day preceding the Bar meeting, he addressed the Southern Baptist convention, and lectured his hearers In the most approved high Naturally vice-presiden- ts moral tone about influencing congress on moral issues. Then he turned right around, so to speak, and gave three cheers for booze. The backsliding of Elder Marshall at his age is a painful spectacle. We may expect to see him traversing Pennsylvania avenue with something suspicious on his hip, just to show the riotous courage of his convictions. Not that It would he at all necessary unless he wished to bear glad tidings to his friends, for, be it known, members of congrd&fe can, and do, obtain their liquor with only the slightest attempt at disguise. The dispatches tell us that it is only necessary to hold a newspaper adjacent to the tumbler while the waiter administers a kick. n We suspect that the League is permitting itself to be uni (Continued on Page 16.) Anti-Saloo- its duty. to the it called attention to the mayor's company, Warden Motor Parts busi-nes- s Company, was doing a land-offic- e with the city in violation of law. For a long time it was enriched with the citys money while Mr. Bock was rising from an humble position in politics to the head of the city government. 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