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Show ,L MORRIS AND THAT FOUR-CENT FARE. Mayor Morris and the Democratic citj platform strenuously - maintain that the Democratic city 'administration secured, a four-cent four-cent street car fa-re for the people. ! ' Xow, The Telegram is not addicted to the gambling habit, but .,-!.. it would like to wager Mayor Morris that The Telegram had twenty Je ; times more to do with obtaining that four-cent fare than Mayor Morris and his cabinet did. The street car trust doesn't like The Telegram, but this paper , ;is willing to put the question up to Manager Campbell, and accept 'his decision. Everybody knows that The Telegram worked overtime during tfie street railway fight to keep up the Mayor's courage. The pub-p pub-p lie also knows that the moment an ordinance, called a "compro-.... "compro-.... mise," that was favorable to' the light trust, was presented to the T Council, Mayor Morris, the Democrats in the Council, and their newspaper organ, betrayed the people and fell over themselves in ' their haste to support the trust. And yet Morris claims credit for the four-cent fare. Later on in the campaign Thj Telegram will explain the con- ; nection between the light trust and a big mercantile institution. X. It will tell how The Telegram was punished for lighting the light : ; trust and how another newspaper was rewarded by the mercantile institution in question, because it jumped into the trust's camp and supported it. . , |