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Show .. For The Bransford Ticket THE time has now come for serious work on the part of voters who seek this city's 1 well-being. The sentiment which has caused divisions here, has been worked up by two as disreputable newspapers as ever have been published since the invention of movable types was made. They had but one motive the defeat of the American party. For forty years one of these papers saw dens of vice built and occupied, and never uttered I one protest. Indeed, on one memorable occasion, it helped create some dens of vice beside which "all modern attempts have been but the work of amateurs. The other has not existed so long, but its ' whole career has been marked by such total dls- m regard of truth, such bare-faced attempts" at I blackmail, and with such an evident desire to besmirch the city, that it has become a stench in the nostrils of decency. And while those who are now clamoring for a change, and demanding that impossible things be accomplished, may not think so, it was from those disreputable newspapers that they obtained their inspiration originally. But it is not to them that we make any appeal, with them the disease will j have to run its course, the same as do measles and mumps. As we have said in another case, we have not one word of criticism of any of the non-partisan candidates that have been nominated, save that wo are sorry they were not as dls- i cerning and strong as was Mr. Dern, when ho refused the offered place on the ticket. But the best welfare of the city de- $ mands that they be beaten and that Mayor , Bransford and the whole American ticket be elected. For could this so-called Citizens' ticket be elected, it would be handicapped from the flr3t M day. The men upon it, if elected, could not do what would be demanded of them, and with fan- II aticism on the one hand and rascality on anothPr W hand, the small element of honest men and M women who are shouting for them would all bo against them before six months. We believe the level-headed voters of the city fully grasp I this situation. We believe the nearer the eloc- tion approaches, the fact will be realized, that be-I be-I hind all the clamor, the initial thought was, "Anything to beat Bransford," which includes a m restoration of that rule when vice wag unro- strained and graft a matter of course. It was not in the interest of good government that the cry was raised It grew out of hate on the ono hand and a de sire for graft on the other. All from the same source, the evil elements In the land have been given covert invitations to rendezvous here, every day for years past. On the one hand it was a determination to stop the advancement of the city unless it could be in the hands of those who for forty years held the city a village; on the other, it was a determination to fight against truth and order and progress and decency until it could so arrange things as to draw down regularly, unearned un-earned dividends. The American party first awakened progress and swift advancement here. It gave the city the first decent government that it had been blessed with for years. It caused people to come here by thousands and join in the upbuilding; it added more to the value of city property than had been added in a score of years; it first made clear that with half a chance this would be the very queen city of a region broad enough for an empire; em-pire; it gave the inspiration for the mighty improvements im-provements that have been going on for five years past. It now has a ticket before the people, the personnel of which is above reproach, the business busi-ness ability of which there is abundant evidence already before the people's eye3, and to defeat that ticket would be a reproach which the city could not recover from in years. Every man who has the very best interests of the city at heart should get out and work now until election day, for if the true citizens get to understand the matter mat-ter right, and all the sinister influences that have led up to the present opposition, the election of Mayor Bransford and his associates on the ticket will be overwhelming. |