Show THE COMING ELECTION the city election is approaching and so far no action is being taken by any of the parties towards the 0 notices tor for primaries conventions et etc only some four weeks intervene and an this most important election will take tak place when the voters will decla declare who shall gov govern an the aff affairs airs of ou large and rapidly growing city what at la 18 the reason of so much apparent indifference dif in relation to such an important matter have the masses had bad a surfeit of politics as they have been beela conducted the past year or awl tw two years ago it will be remembered that chat an exhaustive and thorough campaign campain was made by the liberals Liberal sl on ahw one side and the people on the other othen since then a revolution has taken place ir local affairs tho the people party has disbanded and the member mem rg have allied themselves some soine with the republican party and some with the democratic party but the liberals liberala s have not disbanded they ahey adhere a body compact and aggressive a at ever under the circumstances circumstance are there any hopes for either of the da national parties being able to wrest the government of the city from the bana of the party of wilful extravagance glaring incompetence aud and fraud with the liberals united exercising their tenure of office mainly in view as 48 iff how much can be made ut of it ap a parent patently ly responsible to none in t their extravagance and squandering of the high taxes imposed upon the pec people they still seem likely to secure a another ot ee two dears 1 term lerm with this p probable 0 blk difference that this time they may m SY by extensive jobbery and frauds capture the entire city the third and fourth precincts have battled nobly bobill in the plot past in opposing the party 0 of corruption corrupt and that too successfully but with the liberal Libera lily that has been and is now going on they may possibly fall fail in ability to resit resia any longer the encroachments encroach ments of t the enemy in a crisis of this nature what to is the duty of the cItI citizen zeD shall he yield to party and sacrifice his bis best beat inheres inte reate there abere are those who say that como come what may win or lose 12 we mu got into the battle as a democratic erfy party with a gumly and strictly Democrat le ticket in my opinion the democratic Democrat le party have as much hope of winning the february election as of bel bei ng able to make sugar out of salt Is IR not this understanding der standing the cause of such puch luke warmness and indifference among the people in regard to the most ixil im of all elections do they not n see that to enter the contest with any than a combined ticket of the two parties is in to lose the battle have W we advanced so far as partisans that we as a community cannot adopt a citizen st ticket the welfare of our city del de mauds mandeik man deit it the extravagance aad ud ia competence of the present government demands it the inability of the people to continue paying such enormous taxes demands it then them why not veni ventilate flate and express the idea believing fully that tho people arro are largely in favor of i a citizens ticket I 1 have the hardihood to subscribe in on selfa DEMOCRAT |