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Show CAMPAIGN PLUNDER. We note the report of the Mayor's order or-der to suppress the Sunday selling sell-ing of liquor In the saloons; and this would be sufficient notice, if any notice were required, that a city election is nt hand; for, let no one run away with the notion that there is the least sense of regard for morality, temperance, or reverence for the Sabbath in this order. It is simply a hold-up proposition for money for campaign purposes; thai Is all. And even at that, It is serious enough. When, under" the authority of the city, , an order of this kind issues, after near- j ly a whole term of indifference to Sunday Sun-day laws and to the evils of the liquor I traffic, the knowing ones understand at once what is wanted by the authorities, and what It means; and they generally agree to "come down." But what a shameful thing It is! The power of the city used to wrench from a class of dealers the money which a partisan gang wants lo carry on its personal and political campaigns! It Is as dirty a piece of hold-up blackmail as ever a professional engaged in. It Is a shame to the city administration administra-tion to seek to advance Its campaign by this sort of extortion; and a nasty evidence evi-dence of the sort of campaign that it proposes to conduct. |