| Show THE J > OSII CUllTrJI 11 Th News hns not the faintest I I hope of either sntlsfylnR or silencing I I the ward politicians I I who are inveighIng inveigh-Ing against tile nonjurtlsan I committee commit-tee and htaplng all nurts < of acema I lions upon It Including I tyranny czar im like methods star chamber sittings iJ florklnntern procedure etc The committee com-mittee has threatened to abolish the occupation of the ward politician and that Individual I Is consequently II In no dl el mood to accept any explanation or > arguments nor to bo satisfied with anything short of the annihilation of the committee Hut there are the isnnclu of voters In the city who ate honest and conscientious pl con-scientious and who desire to support f that policy which will yield the best results In municipal affairs who are In danger of being misled I by the replc sentatlons of the rounders and heelers o and a few words of explanation and < a few statements of fact addressed to r them will If listened to In candor 1 help them to n realization of the situ t ation The accusers of the committee Say It Is I guilty or gross assumption hast I I adopted unAmellcan methods hal attacked the libel tic of the people t by preventing a popular expression l In i primaries regarding nominations Ms I assuming the role of dictator etc d Now the facts are simply these if The manner In which city affairs j has long been conducted hid created u sentiment nl profound disgust In the minds of thousand or citizen especially es-pecially leading I business men and taxpayers tax-payers U was natural that one business busi-ness man should express this senti i ment to others who In turn heartily endorsed It Thus was created an at mosphero that Inevitably produced spontaneou action It was plain that If u reformation was to ba effected an V organized movement must precede Ito It-o a d an Informal motting or prominent I business I men was held to consider what to do In the emergency r id These gentlemen knew perfectly well 1 ahat II storm among the politicians thdr action would raise They foresaw I fore-saw the accusations that would ho en dth heaped upon them and the abuse they lin the would be olllsed to endure but In the consciousness of their own Integrity j and reading the Inestimable benefits that would result to the city as a 1 whole they decided to proceed with 4 their wink Other meetings were held and n plan of campaign was matured Why did not the committee give the M t people n 1 chance to be heard by providing pro-viding for primaries and conventions Because the committee represented no arty having local committees to nr tango for still conduct such auem blges It had no larlY machinery nt liB command slid therefore could put lion In operation Furthermore Its chief labor was to destroy party machinery ma-chinery so fur as municipal elections nre concerned and had It gone to work and created somonf Its own It would have been open to the charge of stultification Primaries and conventions con-ventions ate the very means l1y which corruption IB accomplished and by abolishing them the committee gained Its first greet victory over the heelers 4 and rounder The latter tire howling because the opportunity to make the swaps and bargains through which I Incn18 all at n power is I not to Ie nf forded them In the shape of primaries and conventions In deciding not to provide for prl Mertes and conventions the committee havc ellsplasfd admirable shrewdness and foresight as well as consistency and hive battled the plotters In nl Vance Wwii the volors of tho city comet to appreciate this point at Its full value they will enthusiastically support the committed and Its policy Again thtcommittee Is I not n Ito IHIcal body Its work Is I not political Us alms and ambition ore not political po-litical It la I a body of business men Its work Is I pure business It see 1 to accomplish none but buBIn9sq result It Is I therefore moro than justified In abjuring ordinary political methods ard precedents It Is I morally bound to do to One 6f the first things the members mem-bers of the committee did was to pledge their honor as gentlemen that all their acts and all the nominations they might favor should be I strictly haunony with the notfpartlsan and Iv Aim business spirit In which their work wn begun and It In I the unanimous Los Ilmony at every member concernIng concern-Ing every other member that this pledge can been faithfully Kept throughout all their work and deliberations deliber-ations No man has been before the committee com-mittee seeking olllce for himself or friend and be > ond douLt such an applicant ap-plicant would bf prompt turned town Neither has any member of the commlttPr ahowa a taint or nepotism while they have unalterably un-alterably resolved not to accept ac-cept office themselves The commit com-mit too Are and claim to bc nothIng noth-Ing more or tea I than cltln who are personally and patriotically Interested Inter-ested In the welfare of the city and who are ngagrd In maturing n purr Iy business proposition to submit to the shareholders In the municipal corporation cor-poration the taxpayers That proposition propo-sition will take the form of n munl clpal ticket and the committee has a perfect I right In eveiy sense to submit sub-mit It to the people of the City |
