Show LET US HAVE A SHOWDOWN SHOW The News 1 is as vindictive as it is cowardly in its denunciation of the present city government of this city Well this administration has bas made the city safe against thugs f It has closed the dives It has bas given the city more advancement than was ever given it under any ten years of church rule in all the sixty years cars since the city was founded The News Nes has been published here more than half halfa a century It is presumably well acquainted with the city's history history- It certainly should be for most of the time it was the official organ of the cit city government gov gov- Now let it its stop denunciations for one day an and make a contrast between the management of affairs during the past nearly two years and an any two years during all the years when han its friends were in power Let it make the best showing i it t can for its friends and give us all a chance to s see e how much the city lost when those friends were final finally y pushed from 1 power i Let it pick out any any two to years that it may please J to and point out what was done what great im- im im- im c J were inaugurated t what places of ill ill- I I repute were closed what disposition was made of the r venues revenues for jor the bett betterment of the city It has in J 1 its litS ti s j files les all an the figures let it for one day stop atop it its S. S S w 1 ribald abuse nn an and by the Ule figures and facts show how o othe the present administration has degenerated from th the high standard of the past It has nearly fifty years to select from and th the people arc are anxious for the showing And it has this thi incentive to make the showing If it does not n a great many thousand people will conclude that it is instead of an nn organ of Truth and Liberty merel merely a cowardly cowardly- liar bluffer and slave |