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Show fjM The Tribune and Herald arc up in in the air because of fusion of the demo- !jj I crats and republicans on the council- 1 j J jl - manic tickets. That is a good and tiy sufficient reason why the people D j should favor it. Both those sheets j! are rublic enemies and anything fhey P j object to must on general principles , , be for the public good. The fact that Br four councilmen who were elected as K' republicans turned traitors and allied m ! themselves with the "A'merikearns" Hat 1Kb crowd and have been fighting the republican re-publican party ever since, arc "holdovers" "hold-overs" in the council, argues very strongly for the necessity of the republicans re-publicans and democrats combing in order to overcome the baneful influence in-fluence those four councilmen augmented aug-mented by a few more who would be elected as "Americans" in the absence ab-sence of fusion, in the next city council. coun-cil. If the republicans elect their candidate can-didate for the mayoralty he would be powerless to do any good to the city with a gang of "Amcrikcarnsitcs" constituting a majority of the council; coun-cil; hence the particular wisdom of fusion of the opposition on the coun-cilmauic coun-cilmauic tickets. The republicans arc going to nominate nom-inate a strong ticket throughout Their councilmanic nominations arc just about as good as could be made and the general ticket will be of the same calibre. A crisis has been reached in the affairs of the city where it is absolutely necessary for a combination of the best citizens to defeat the thugs, boodlers and tricksters who for almost two years have held it in their grasp, and who seek to perpetuate their hold on the throats of the citizens. |