| Show LET THE lightening STRIKE WE WB hope the movement in this city in support of morality and order and against vice and disorder will prove to be something more than a more mere spasm of pretended virtue and a splenetic convulsion against certain city officials the present condition of the city was foreseen when the danger of the contemplated Ic liberal illiberal steal of ef the municipal government stared the people peoples s party in the face it was foretold in the platform of the peoples peopled party here is the prediction we believe that the supremacy of the slA liberal beral party arty mea means no class dis ft excessive taxation official extravagance and laxity in public social regula regulations dons 11 for proof of the fulfilment fulfillment of these words we need point lao BO further than the resolutions adopted in the methodist church by a meeting composed almost entirely of members of the Libe liberal raP party and the admissions baythe nay the strong blows of the chief liberal organ on the heads of the liberal city officials the condition of the city is a constant theme and disgust is expressed on every hand band thero there are am hints and rumors and half concealed accusations against prominent offic officials lais in connection with this matter if the facts facto are as an alleg alleged td why to is it not something done to remedy them athe grand jury should be informed concerning them those who know should tell what they know where it is supposed it would do the most good if these them persons will not speak voluntarily they ought to be summoned by the grand jury and required to tell it all the prosecuting attorney has here a fine field for legitimate operations operation iL the city council has ample pow ere to prohibit and suppress dens of vice gambling hells and all disorderly places and to place under sufficient bonds bonda all persons persona licensed to sell sel I 1 intoxicants so that they rosy may be brought to tinie time if they fail to act on the of their bonds that body can appoint all the officers necessary to keep the peace preserve the persons aud property ol of the citizens and promote the prosperity improve the morals good order comfort and convenience ence of the city and the inhabitants thereof but it is beyond dispute that the present city officials were placed in power largely through the support of the very classes whose conduct is complained of Is in this the reason why vice I 1 is a rampant danger lurks in every street after and the city ordinances are constantly violated with perfect impunity r how can it be expected that rigid morality will be supported and thorough discipline will lie enforced under the circumstances which turned over the control of the city into the hands that now guide its affairs what can be expected of a body more than one third of which is composed of persons who hold hola their seats in violation of law and the rulings of courts and in robbery of the rights of the men elected thereto what can be expected of members elected who endorsed and aided in the swindle upon the citizens by keeping these usurper usurpers usurp ers 4 in the council it if there is any real honesty and settled purpose behind the outcries out crieg that have been raised by prof professed ewed liberals Ibe rals against the results of liberal civic rule jet det the wrongs that lie at the root of the evil be righted if the assumption of virtue be anything more than declamation de clams lot let some definite action be taken to compel practical measures for th establishment of social order if the accusations that have been made in print are anything more than emanations of personal spite let them be put into definite shape and brought before those who can and ought to do something in the matter against Immor immorality allty verbal condemnations or of official wrongdoing that are indefinite and general amount to very little in working needed re reformation formatin if 2 thre re is any lightning in the most of this rolling thunder let it strike the guilty beads and bouses and let waiting and watching citizens F FO fe O that all tins this is rom something ething more pious verbiage and something higher than personal spleeny |
