Show some facts about the EC eu reka city finances eureka city is in bad shape financially at the present time the drain upon the treasury which has been going on daring during the past year or snore more has entirely de do pieced the treasury and this week some of the th dem dern crate got together and devised a plan whereby they could w pe out the overdraw at the tha bank and have enough money to pay the warrants out standing against the city and also meet sueh such bills as it would be necessary to pay before election day to do th a they got the assistance of M D bowen the treasurer of J lab iab county and a demo erat ordinarily it would have been at least adorth before the county would turn over to this eity city the money collected from city taxes the democrats realized that the people would learn of the ever draft which was banging over their head before that time and tried to cover it up by getting mr bowen to advance them the tax money before the regular time came for checking up mr nir bowen corn pi ed with their request and the other day the city treasurer leee ieee ived the first installment or this money and a premise promise that more would be bent as toon soon as a possible to tide them over until after election elect iee day the democrats no doubt think thie this a very tery smooth political dodge it remains 0 o be seen what the voters and taxpayers think ef of it the democrats adopted a very unique I 1 convention last saturday the platform tarts out with the usual stereotyped min form regarding democratic pies ples of government and equal rights to all etc and winds up by endorsing the pros pres eat out democratic cit administration this is the wording of the plank which has reference to the waterless water gys tern torn we commend the th present city administration for its successful effort la in spit spite of the opposition ef of the republic can party in providing this city ity with a water system it lt will require consid a arable r able argument arg ament to make the ta taxpayers believe that the effort has ben sue easeful we are also at loss to know in what way the democrats were opposed by the republicans Republic as was it not the re publicans and democrats alike who voted to bead bond the city for 20 to t install the waterless water system could the Dm democrats rate have issued these bonds with out the consent of t the taxpayer it is tru true that the republicans were not in favor of the manner in which the business like aad and economical city administration squandered that 20 neither were the democratic taxpayers for that matter anether another thine thing that the tax payers and workingmen meB did not like was the manner la in which one man hand ie Is 1 the city council to further his hi own interests at the time that the stove pipe do was wa being put in the ground wis thi is still frh fresh in the minds of our readers and these those who are interested can get the figures by looking over the files of the reporter two years tears ago the platform of democracy pledged the ean can dilates to a permanent supply forth for the camp in our opinion their effort along these lines have been anything but successful |