Show THE LATE MUNICIPAL ELECTION ladt beheld what might be m beaver sia a rara in our city politics lj the of alio ticket gotten up by the old incumbents in office and tho of a board of city officials who arc the choice of tho young progressive gres sive party of the at the political meeting of thc jhc previous thursday tho of alio llio nominating appointed at previous was lito rolly into and entire new ticket adopted as tho voice of the meeting this failed to suit mens political party and it seems to leavo prompted them to gel up a of their own which 07 did on tho following day omitting however but two of be nairi cg which thoy forced upon them as nominees at tho in replacing alem with the names men whom they whether correctly or not remains to i bo seen to bo of a more process I 1 ive mind on the other hand the managers of the original hicl et thought they could in provo it by omitting tho name of one of tho first nominees and substituting thoro fur tho cl l incumbent making it with wo exceptions an effort for the reflection of the original board of coun cifors and recorder s that when arrived there were two tickets in tho field neither of which was the unaltered list that was supposed to havo been ratified by citizens tho young men camo out in full force working with commend ablo zeal the antiro daiy diy soliciting and rushing voters to polls in a manner that betokened tho importance us they deemed it of the occasion the other side worked of course with all the zest possible with what they assorted to bo tho peoples choice but which the result plainly to bo the leversa lever sc the young men electing their candidates byan abonio majority of llin a total vote of that the choice is for tho best is something tant is we before stated yet remains to be seen that the city especially in the nutter of public improvements been at a literal standstill no one can deny nud it may be at least vo hope art that the transfusion of fresh blood into the city council and executive baird generally will improve matters As an instance of the improvements prove ments needed we will mention the great lack f modern appliances or the extinguishing or prevention which there have been quite a number in this njg tho past two years the placing of sunken water s in differ mt parts of the town together tho purchase of a dinall modern alro cn amu with accompanying apparatus being a desideratum that is highly necessary and one which every wali citizen should work for business men arc very loth and we dont blame them to expend any considerable sum of money in jhc thc erection of right go id buildings buil dinga for business purposes or een residence when their taxes and fees d them ally action from the fire fiend and as a consequence alio city is deterred irom n al ing the progress it other wise w anton nt on diio caun ty auth IL IVO iu our town one of tho finest court houses in tho territory tho design including a clock tower in which should be placed a town clock this our county fathers f und themselves unable to do nut only from a lack of funds but from ho duty they owed to the entire county in disbursing ho rev chuo for tho good of iho citizens of tho county and the exclusive good of any particular town they and wo might antly declined to purchase so the timepiece but offered abu uso of the tower f tho building to our civic authorities ties with aljo specific under that the county would aid in the raising of he necessary funds but that iho clock should bo under tho supervision of the city chis best known to our old rejected possibly however ou account of a rather lean city treasury but this wo are not prepared to discuss ahw at laid put for the mcw board and wo sincerely trust thai now they iro elected the citizens ono aud all will assist iu these needed improvements into effect but to revert political cwi its vo would remark abat their net iou is aiom alio ancl abat sis wp live in a pro alio our lucu ariso and assume a portion of the burden of public life that so cars past the utter it will bo for all of courso to use wilh proper thoughtful discord tion not bringing wy discredit upon tho laboi labois s ol 01 their predecessors but on alio nry extending and enlarging upon them |