Show EZRA IS AfTER MORANS SCALP Mayor Will Try to Prevent His Erstwhile Ally From Get Getting ting Contracts 1 TIED TO ASPHALT TRUST R VICTORY MAY YET PRO PROVE E FRUITLESS Mayor Sara Era and his win icing of the city that their er ally Pat Fat Patrick rick J Moran shall haU not lot receive the coa tracts tract for the four bi bf paving paYin jobs of which the city council the Bar Barber Barber ber Asphalt company after a big row Monday Mondy night tt It 18 1 announced that the Barber people will bid again that they will 11 be below their previous figure and that the board bord of public works City En Engineer KelM and tb the mayor himself will do everything po to give them the contract The outlook le Ig promising in view of the war between Mayor Thompson on and Mo Moran Moran ran that the cost of street paving will willbe willbe be brought down somewhere near a rea reasonable reasonable price On 00 three of the four jobs which the council took away aay from the Barber people the latter were ere 39 lower than Moran Moran has Intimated that If the were ed ie would come down don to the Barber fig figures ures ires and DO now with the mAyor and his N horts determined thAt shall not have th the contracts it is probable that the Barber next bid will be under Its previous one If there is to be It lOOKS like Uke war It is JN bable that the rival rhal aggregation will make their bids as J low w as Ezra Angry at Moran Mayor Thompson is ie bitterly angry at loran toran and makes make no secret of it His appo and s In the city halt ball ch the mayors They were ere b busy aU all day yesterday denouncing the action of the four American council councilmen men who broke away aay from the mayor and the asphalt trust and predicting that Moran oran would the fruits of his victory that Ez would see seeto seeto to It that the Barber people outbid him and if nece would go down don into his own pocket and help the Buber people share a loes s It Is d to say MY that th the latter prediction have haye not even a casual understanding of the themA mA mayors or s characteristics Pat Morans a hog This statement reiterated time and again ie yesterday by adherents of the mayor really defines the attitude ot of the toward the e Mayor Myor Thompson taPe tates the ground that the American party in view of the approaching fall election cant cannot afford to give Moran a contract on his rivals outbid him He wo would like to have given Moran the eon oon tra tract t and tHus have continued the al 1 Bance D Moran and the adminis trAt but he feared the political conse consequences que es cOming so 80 closely eb upon the Am gift to Moran of ThOO ex tr on the Bi Big Cott conduit When Moran Insisted that the Barber bid be thrown out the mayor bowed hJ his neckS neck and the break came caine Moran went into the council and whipped the mayor whipped him good too because he de ted that he had of the vt 8 that bOd body enough h to pAM pase thIngs over Ezras veto Four vot otes of that majority were ere furnished iy Aman councilmen councilman who w when it came to II a choice between following ng Eva Eara or I Pat chose to follow Pat Caucus Agreement Broken T rican caucus agreement by which an 8 weIghty eighty matters Involving large expenditures of money were ere to be mAde mAdea a party part matter hu has been into bi bIts The first beneficiary of caucus rule was Moran himself It was 88 fh the American caucus that it was a agreed eed to give him OOoO extra ettra on the conduit Then Thea when he found It convenient to break It in order to knock out the asphalt trust he furnished visible e evidence to Ezra that he could break the caucus Lot as easily as he be cem cemented ted It Ezra Eara realizes I that in Moran foran he has cau caught ht a Tartar and theres a heap o trouble on the old mang mind Mayor Thompson may not veto the or din nees amending tM the original mf nt ordinances These ame amending dIng or were ne p Tu Tuesday y night as j the first step In the Moran 4 and when tb they y were passed it was sup supposed posed that Ezra Eara would veto them But even if he did Moran would not Dot be worst Pd 4 President nt Davis o of the COUn COUncil cil has ruled that the Barber contract has been acted upon adversely by the council and the council ha has sustained that ruling It is therefore to knock out th the amending ordinances and give ghe the Barber people the contract because the original Barber contract cant reach the I I mayor for tor his approval I It is therefore that the mayor will in approve the amending ordinances and that the board of public works wm wilt proceed to and that it will t then hen be war ar to the knife between Morand Mora loran nd the tIte trust to se secure UTe the contract us un under tier der the new bids I |