| Show another failure in municipal government the latest failure in municipal government occurred at the tho recen recent t c city elect election iop lop of cincinnati according to the gazette tile the city is it delivered over bound hand haud and foot to a ring of thieves and roughs boughs headed by the mayor a man named johnston who has just secured his reelection election re xe by the worst conceivable means the gazette says 91 the the most disgraceful election th that tit has ever been held in tb this Is city has hag resulted in the success bf tile the most corrupt ring that have ever held office it further declares that the rights of the ballot box were shamefully violated that the police were used to procure the election of the mayer mayor II ayer that fraudulent votes were ad admitted and legal votes rejected that peaceable citizens who offered to vote against the ring were seized ill III treated and locked up in the station houses of the newly elected executive officer it sas bas the the tho lowest man in his diaper per sonai habits the most disreputable in big bis associations association that has ever occupied the position of chief magistrate of the city he is a tit re representative re senta tive of the hordes of rum ruf ruffians flans and scoundrels who were yesterday patrolling our sheets and held pos of the voting places placed he was opposed by all the papers in cincinnati there was no defense possible against the damning charges of which he be was the tile object yet he was reelected elected re bya majority of four to five thousand we are not surp burp surprised that the gazette in des desi ir of decent municipal govern luent should exclaim it is ill lii high gh lime time oliata a city which cannot govern itself better than this eneis one ona is doing where hardly the semblance of a republican government is maintained were put under state control the virtue of the country may do for us what cannot be dolle done here but cities which depend upon salvation from independent constituencies are we fear in a for loin situation we can fancy the howl of indignation and digusta that would bo be raised at what would of course be called a proposition to disfranchise the citizens of cincinnati ciu cin cin clu cinnoti nati as if every honest and decent man was not now noy chased in the most offensive and odious manner we should hear bear about the hight right of self government about taxation without representation and so forth ad and the low scoundrels whose taste for bad whisky is cultivated at the sacrifice of respectable e and tolerable government would be paraded as an enlightened and patriotic community threatened with deprivation of the most precious rights of citizenship by an insolent and usurping oligarchy of agrical turis jurists ts meantime every decent man in cincinnati regardless of ra party arty feels and admits that he is not 11 living ying under a republican government ern ment but that he is at the mercy of a vile and brutal mob of reckless thieves who only refrain from sacking the city 0 openly anly because experience per peri perl lenco ienco ence has taught taught them that slow siow bleeding is the most profitable manner of killings kil kii linga community and the keople people of cincinnati will presently be e called upon to manifest enthusiasm in a presidential campaign and to agitate themselves over the choice of a practical abstraction while thel the Irown roWn hearths and homes are exposed to almost as much danger as though they were travelers who had lost their way in the brigand haunted wilds of calabria some day it will be found necessary to remedy this state of things even even eved if the actual has to td be bei applied some day that peculiar pecullar liar flar kind of municipal administration which may be characterized as government of the people by the thieves and for the thieves will reach the end of its tether and then whether the panacea selected shall be curtailment of the suffrage or regulation of the proletarian city vote by the honest country vote it will get adopted by U the public despite the outcries and curses 0 of ahn dangerous classes 21 sacra mento umon union the brooklyn bridge bridee ig is to be beaten before it is finished its rival which is to be cons constructed over the frith of forth scotland will be the largest in the world the be one hundred and fifty feet and the number of spans nearly one hundred the great span in the center is to be nio toen hundred feet or nearly one third of a mile in width and the smaller one hundred and fifty feet it will cost about |
