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Show Whet, ca Honest Mayor Can Do. When a Philadelphia grand jury makes a report strongly indorsing the city administration and the police it may truly be Kiid that the Quaker City's day of redemption is at hand. After twenty years of municipal corruption during which, the city, has been plundered by the Quay looters, the induction of Mayor Weaver into office promises to result in a thorough cleansing, of this cesspool of political debauchery. de-bauchery. The report of this grand jury coming, as it does after more than fifty grand juries have scored the municipal government and denounced the' police must be to the disgusted Philadelphia as the oasis on the desert is to the tired traveler. The jury's report is one which officials of other cities may read with profit: "The present munici-pal munici-pal administration has our hearty indorsement, and especially the bureau of police for the expeditious " manner in which it has brought to the bar of justice writers and backers of policy and the proprietors of diwii-derly houses and speak easies. We beg to sug- gest that every citizen consider it a public obligation obliga-tion to render aid whenever he can to the Department Depart-ment of Public Safety. Our experience in the prosecution prose-cution of persons charged with the offenses above referred to leads us to believe that the existing laws, when administered by an honest administra tiori, are ample. We would suggest prosecution of the owners and agents of properties used for immoral im-moral purposes, as we believe such owners and agents to be equally guilty with the proprietors and inmates. A matter that should be given close attention at-tention by the poli(ie in the sale of liquor without a license in public halls and parks. The grand jury believes such to be merely cases of huge speakeasies, speak-easies, enjoying privileges refused to those in more humble circumstances." This sudden change in af- . fairs is due to the election of an upright Mayor. The remarkable reform is striking evidence of what an honest city Executive may accomplish in even such a boodler-stricken city as Philadelphia. |