Show r a t Johnson an and Cleveland as s II In Ili six ix years time line Torn Tom Johnson ha has earned Larned the tho phrase o of l being The best J mayor of or the best o g governed c city t in ht the lie United States For Cleveland clan has Ims had no scandals It has hns been free from graft grafL It has hils not been su subjected to the terrorism of oC the bo boss as us has Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia St. St Louis Cincinnati un and amid other oilier cities clUes Its tg people have become ver very vr-iy lu Independent enl with wIlh the 1 ballot ballut A city sense ha has been developed People talk tall city and think elt city an and believe believe- in hr their city In a n wa way that Is not to he be found an anywhere else elso In 4 A Asen sen sense o of the dignity l of the ballot has come In The city ha has been elevated above O party part until toda today men arc are no longer Iong proud to tu say they vote vole a straight ticket This city sense SC Is a prerequisite to any Intelligent city city- inn making When wo we consider how ho hoa a absent all nIl this thia Is In iii tho the average a ell city tho the won- won Oer is not that a administration Is 18 so o bat 3 ad acl but rather that It Jt is Ig so good ou We c have no tra traditions Hion no nu I ideals deals cals no experience ex- ex ex cx- I pe In political Everything has been a u. matter of or ac ac- Our cities came tamer Into life ICe much as ai did Topsy they happened There ha have been no gi cat city builders builders build build- ers en with l Ideals eals of or how now a city should he hc built of ur how Us its foundations should he hI built hullt of how bow It would servo serve the people how it should care for tor the tho poor an and helpless and otherwise promote promote pro pro- promote mote the tho being well of Its Inhabitants Up to comparatively few years ears ago the thc American city wa was little more than an nil exaggerated crossroads When rhen we bear these limitations In mind the won wonder cr Is that undisciplined democracy democracy demo demo- omo- omo cracy has been able to do O so HO wondrously won won- well When an architect de- de feigns gns a structure or an engineer a a. I f they thy do It with the tile completed I image e in III their theil th li minds 8 So it is with all aU r great groat creations The artist and tho the duct the sculptor anti and the dramatist ad add Ima Imagination to their manual skill And II Mayor on Works with such an um Image of or the city that lint is 15 to be Lc Ho secs its social Its lal Its economic eco ceo po possibilities He lIe gathered about In iii the first years year o of his adminis I those wh who dreamed of oC the thc ar artistic ar- ar the humane the c educational the physical Ho lIo sees Cleveland as a city of C A n. million inhabitants And n he w se sees s the class clas war which the thc struggle for i franchises plO produces On the tho one hand are the tho rich and the tho powerful the banker and anel the thc broker the tho law lawyer cr and the press Almost all the tho talent hot of or the community Is grouped about privilege c. c It is making war on tho tiro community for fOI Its HI own enrichment t. t through ih the use of oC the he city's streets j He sees gees that no big hI life liCe Is ly pos possible so so long as af the time community Is divided e like an nn armed aimed camp over tills this struggle fir fyr franchises Tho The real results of or the these e six fix Ix years of or sti struggle can can never be measured sired j Jn in n political successes ses lower loner charges h for tol gas gns water 1 nn and amid street railway s service ser r- r vice In III the happiness of tho the people 1101 or the time Improvement In the well be ing Ing- of oC the criminal classes s America I has been en Inspirited by y the achieve achieve- meats ments of or Cleveland Her Ker own wn halt half I million people hav have heel beet given shen a 3 new I sense sento of QC the thc dignity of of or politics ami Anil- 1 tho the obligation of oC the citizen N Not t. t only has a great greal city found oun Itself lull lint lice people have ha regained their Incidence in the possibilities po of oC lI d de- de m 01 oc r ra aFy |