Show AN INVITATION REPEATED i i J THE HERALD has had an invitation stand standing standing f R ing i g for throe three days asking some same so responsible Republican tJ city official to defend the condition of the finances J no reply had been bee received up to the hour of going to press A j definite honest statement of the situation could have been had hadr r from the official record within a day after aft r The Heralds statement H c f t wu was printed It is quite possible some tall computation is thought though t necessary n before an explanation is offered and in j that t case ease the th delay would be explainable Or it may be e the administration has not yet recovered from the discovery that it is doing business busi business business ness on wind with a likelihood that even the wind will be ex exhausted exhausted J hausted h before the first of the year r i However that may be no truthful statement will ill U be forth forthcoming forthcoming J coming that will not show t tp I A p city overdraft of J Ji i A depleted d general fund with vitti unpaid claims aims still outstanding of more than c 1 A current expense e account of 2000 per week more than the l i f tJ expenses of the city for 1899 excluding g all waterworks expenses id d A prospective deficit on Jan i of unless expenses are ij cut ut down immediately or valuable city property r is sacrificed sacr fic d to t tor r meet the emergency lf f It is well to bear boar in in i if mind also that the same sanie men m h who have bave r J got the city into this s condition controlled c the nomination of the ther fJ Republican candidates for county count office and could be expected ij to handle h county affairs on or the same plan that has looted l the h city c tY 1 treasury i if they were ere elected t But b that same token tour ii the will not l te teY Y 0 t |