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Show It is droll to read in a contemporary that thou- I sands of Republicans voted for Mayor Morris be- I cause they desired to have him assume practical I control of the city's business, and in the same I paper to see a club held over the Republicans In I the council with a warning to beware of the reck- I oning if they continue to balk the will of these I thousands of Republicans. I That is all very jolly. There were many Re- I publicans who voted for Mayor Morris, but their I purpose was not to make him a dictator. Indeed I they would have just as cheerfully voted for I Fernstrom or Grover Cleveland. Their purpose I was to defeat the opponent of Mayor Morris, not 1 that they had ought against him, not that they I doubted the least bit his qualifications for the I place, but they wanted to punish a spector that I stood behind him and make him suffer vicarious 1 atonement for the sins of a supposed friend. It I will not much avail to tell Republican council- 1 men, what the men who voted against a Ropubll- I can candidate for mayor, expect of them. I |