Show NO o PREMIUM o OJ U ESS SEen S. S Even en tho 10 men who ask for the six sis hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred thousand dollars In bonds confess they havo not wisely wiser or well administered the expenditure of tho million dollars the public public pub pub- lic fc them In Jn 1905 The They did not keep which It was the pledge as to the tho manner In to bo be spent spent some some essential al Improvements being Ignored altogether The They a admit thc they have been wasteful and extravagant and singularly defiant of ot tho the will of or tho the people And there Is Js no more that the they reason reason nor nor as much now much now to believe belle will bo be careful or 01 judicious or 01 true than there has been In tho the past three years ears To grant them tho the bond mone money now would beto bo be boto boto to put a premium on had ball administration That Is 19 the strongest possible reason against voting yoUng for the bonds There Is 15 no evading e the truth that the they do not care a cent for the will of the people That voice of the people which older patriots used to say was the tho voice of God does not appeal appear to fo Yo I them They boldly declare Neither the mayor nor the hen head of an any department department depart depart- ment ot or the tho cit city government nor the city cil- council Is responsible to the people of ot this city for tor tho the falth- falth ful ul and honest mana management and conduct of ot Us lis affairs It Is foIl folly to Irresponsible and defiant men with public monc money No matter what their argument about public improvements there Is 19 a stronger argument against them There is the I argument that public safety demands the rebuke I of ot those officials and the discrediting of or their unofficial un un- unofficial official advisers l l W un-I un If It they had bad ma made e a good use USG of or the tho earlier funds if the they had well and wisely administered their trust there would bo be no objection to giving them more m ne whenever it were needed But there thero is every objection when the they have done badly In the past when they give no pledge of being bett better r in future A future AND AND D WHEN THEY INSOLENTLY INSO INSO- I INSOLENTLY SOLE SO- SO i LE SAY IT IS ISO NONE O E OF THE PUBLICS PUBLIC'S BUSINESS WHAT yr THEY DO WITH TU TILE THE PUBLIC PUBLIC PUBLIC PUB PUB- LIC MONEY And there Is another cogent reason against votIng vot vot- voting ing tho the bon bonds s at nt this time lime The Tho council Is In a quarrel with the tho mayor The Tho council has tied the tho h. h hands of the mayor maor The co council Is Iq stron stronger er than tho tha mayor Ho lie can enn only suggest that certain wise things be he done He Ho can not do them Tho The council council coun coun- cil cil n can AND can can can-A AND D IT WILL NOT Ver Very generally generall the tho people believe tho the mayor Is honest The Republican believes that But there is no Iho wisdom In voting tho the bonds londs with the expectation tation tatton that Mayor 01 Bransford can Insure a wise handling of or the fund Ho can do nothing H Ho He e hol holds s to the theory theor that ho and all other elected officials are arc responsible to the people who elected d him him and and them And tho the American members member s I of or tho ho council hold to the tho theory that that that- Neither the mayor nor tho the head of nn any department department depart depart- ment meat of or tho the cit city government nor tho the cil city council Is re responsible to the people of or this ell city for the tho faithful faithful faith faith- ful tul and honest management and conduct of ot it Its affairs It would woul not be he wise to vote to-vote o vote the tho bonds oven even I Ithe It if the mayor were In perfect accord with tho the councilmen councilmen council council- 1 men men of ot his party because the public burdens ar are arc heavy enough for tor tho the present But nut there 1 is 19 I abundant reason against intrusting ng them with this money when the they stand island for so M pernicious n a doctrine as that quoted above and when the they are aro in open pen and successful quarrel with tho the chief executive officer of the city They The show by b their theft position by tho the matter on which the they have havo quarrelled with him how unworthy unworthy un un- worthy worth the they are arc A 1 vote for the bonds bends under these circumstances I Is to put a a. premium on dishonor to reward bad administration to accept with slavish h humility the slap in In the face which is expressed in that formal declaration of or tho American party that that that- Neither cither the ma mayor 01 nor the head beau of nn any department department depart depart- ment of or tho the ell city go o nor the ell city council is r re ihlo 1 to the I of thud this city for llio tiro faithful and honest manna and nul conduct of Its II affairs |