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Show I THE REPUBLICANS DO I THINGS! m The meetings of the democratic M; committee appear to be governed M' more by prize ring rules than by rc- M gttlations for the conduct of citizens M assembled together for lawful pur- M poses. On the slightest provocation M they fly at each others throats and M even those who play the part of urn- M, pire seem powerless to restrain them. H H That the republicans do things has M again been forcefully demonstrated M by the way they took hold of the fu-M fu-M sion movement and carried it through H despite the wails, lamantations, pro-M pro-M testations and appeals of those who M arc conducting the democratic carnal carn-al paign. In the first instance the rc-M rc-M publicans proposed fusion of all good, M well meaning citizens for the pur-H pur-H pose of overthrowing liic gang of H grafters who have the municipality 1 by the throat. M The hitherto acknowledged drmo- Hl cratic leaders such as Messrs W. H. HJ King, O. W. Powers, James H. Moylc M rnd others opposed it most strcnu- M ously. Ashby Snow and a few oth- H ers took the opposite tack and fav- M orcd fusion. The rank and file of M the party supported Mr. Snow and M fusion on the councilmanlc end of the h tickets was agreed upon between the M republicans and democrats with Mr. M Snow and his aids representing the B democrats. Chairman Snow, Mr. Fern- B strom and others, then took- it into M their heads to play a foxy game. They H held off consummating the fusion H agreement for the purpose of forc- H ing the republicans to sacrifice the H , head of their ticket, Dr. Plummet, in H favor of Mr. Morris, the democratic mayoralty nominee. For a couple of M weeks they have played a shuffling, H double part, a kind of shell game, 'now you see it and now you don't," M while the time approached for the H filing of the tickets. They couldn't Hi be fastened down to anything for Hi longer than sixty consecutive scc- Hj onds. Finally it became evident that. H they preferred that the "Americans" H should carry the election if the demo- H crats couldn't than that the "Amcri- H cans," the common enemy, should be H beaten by the republicans or by fu- H sion of democrats and republicans. H The republicans becoming convinced Hi of this and realizing that the public H i welfare above all things demanded H the defeat of the "Americans," boldly H took the bull by the horns and effect- H cd the ward fusions in spite of the H democratic managers, relying on the H patriotism and good sound sense of H the general public to approve of their H! action. H The republicans accepted the res' re-s' signations of republicans named by I them for the city council, filled their I places with strong well known de-I' de-I' mocrats and filed their ticket with M the proper official. More than that H they gave the democrats the four year terms and took to themselves only two year terms. In view of the fact that the strong desire among good citizens generally is to rid the city of the "American" "Ameri-can" incubus, the conduct of the democrats de-mocrats in trying to substitute the rrivatc petty interests of individual office seekers for the welfare of the people and the interests of the city as a whole will not meet with public favor. The republicans have sacrificed sacri-ficed themselves, as republicans, have taken the best men they could find and made their ticket in effect a citizens' citi-zens' ticket, good, honest, capable government is what they want to bring about. On the contrary the democratic managers have shown their smallncss and pc iness, their duplicity and trickincss. For the sake of a small, a very small chance of their electing their little tin god, Dick Morris, they arc willing to give the "Americans" a splendid chance to plunder the city for two years more. The rank and file of the democratic party don't approve of the action of the campaign managers and we believe be-lieve will set their seal of disapproval disappro-val on the conduct of those managers. |
