Show HAVE THEY CHANGED THEIR MINDS M I N DS Observing people are a good deal in interested interested in the thi question How long ionS longwill will a reformer stay put putA putA putA A little while ago certain gentlemen of this city were very angry about the stockade They condemned It with the speech of ot which they were c They demanded Its extinction aid a ld the police turned a deaf deat ear to They proclaimed the badness cf ot it and the mayor begged to differ with them He held the stockade to be bea bea bea a good thing The gentlemen opposed to tl the stockade were called reformers and did not disown the title They clamored in every ward of or the city They held meetings They raised mon money money money ey and hired lawyers They prepared petitions and many of their followers openly threatened the use of dynamite in n the destruction of ot that stockade which the police defended and the may mayor mayor mayor or Indorsed and advocated They set the tho city in a turmoil turmon I Because of ot their fight against the Blockade the community was so aroused that the sheriff and the tha county com corn commissioners commissIoners missioners responded to the demand for forthe forthe forthe the enforcement of ot the law There was wa wano no hope for law lav enforcement from the police because the mayor was the ad advocate adVocat of ot the unlawful thing And the mayor would not permit his policemen to enforce civilizations edict against the abomination For the first time in the history of at this city for one of the rare times timea in inthe Inthe Inthe the whole history of ot any state the county authorities responded to the loud and constant demand of ot the reformers and end did the work the police refused to todo todo todo do Sheriff and county commissioners devoted themselves to enforcing the law lawIn lawIn lawIn In the city The county spent money The Tha reformers helped them Men of 1 Ugh character and clean morals bought beer for bad women and prepared evi evidence evidence dence derico that could be used u ed in the de destruction of the stockade And now no some of ot the very leaders of ot tat reform movement are out in un unqualified unqualified qualified indorsement of ot John Brans f Ird rd Ird for tor mayor THE OF THE tIIE STOCKADE Wherefore the ques question tion How long will a reformer stay put Have they changed their minis minds Do tit tl y now flOW believe right what they be beJ beb J b wrong a year ago Were they ml taken when they filled the courts with litigation Was Mayor Bransford right when he hebr br honest bonest Tom Torn Pitt PUt because he would not disobey and defy the law Was he lie right when he lie chose cho e another chief iliCi whose one ono qualification was that held the commands of the mayor above the law of or the land If so then the gentlemen who were so BO strong against the stockade in 1903 1905 should go 10 to the logical conclusion and publish as broadly their present senti sentiments sentiments ments as they published them then They should tell to the world that they were mistaken that the stockade is a arIght rIght thing that they regretted having haing accepted the money of ot the tha th citizens who want a stockade that they apol apologize apologize for filling the courts with vain aln and unnecessary contention that they had no warrant for setting the citizens In contention and that they unite with all aU friends of ot the stockade plan in an invitation for the Belle of Ogden to re to return return turn and resume re ume her sway For they have boldly announced their approval of ot John Bransford as a can candidate candIdate didato for mayor and he surely has rever never repented He thinks of the stock stockade stockade ade just what he did a year ago His views are Just jUlit what they were when he be went to California at the time of ot the reception to Admiral Evans and the war fleet and boldly body announced in an interview that he approved the stock rde plan And if It his hands bands were free tomorrow he lie would put pt the stockade right back In business from which it was driven alone atone by the Republicans end the of ot their party A man has bas a right to any opinion his Judgment approves The enly only point on which the public may properly insist UI st It Is that th they y know where to find him who vho ho seeks to take control of public af affairs affairs affairs fairs Society So ty has a 8 right to know If It the men who fought the stockade lost par Far are in favor of ot it this year yearend and nd fr fOIl the future And if they are not nota WhY a by are they indorsing for mayor maOr the thery thery try ry man who as mayor established the stockade Blockade defended it guarded it with his policemen and guaranteed the tha th cash catI returns by the exercise e of at his power Mr Bransford is a plainspoken n and anda a careful man He declare himself till hb hI has thought of the mat matter matter matter ter and decided that a certain course is right And then he change with the changing Reasons He stays stayn put How about the men who him and hIs bis plan a year ago and are declaring declarIng ing lug him their choice for mayor today Shall we look for them to them themselves themselves selves with every new moon Why dont they stay put |