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Show BLOW AT THE WIDE OPEN TOWN. A "wide-open town" always goes as part of "the pum,' ?ith Poli.tical, Rafting. Myor Weaver of Philadelphia, having dealt a blow at grafting followed fol-lowed it up last Saturday night with a blow at tho wide-open town. Over two thousand inmates and patrons of evil resorts were caught and brought to the various police stations'. Here, "mixed ' with painted women, with drunken negroes and vicious hangers-on, were men in full dress, clubmen men of refinement, politicians, lawyers and men whoe faces are familiar in public gatherings and in the higher walks of life. "Crouching in corners of police stations, trying to hide behind the tinsel and occasionally too scanty clothing of tenderloin women were women whose faces- sbc-wed- they were of birth and breeding. Thr0 i were girls not out of their teens, who.-o cl.-,tu;,i;. spoke of luxury, and who bore the indelil,!, t,,,,.. J of gentle homes. These were the cast of th. , . from the hotels and palaces of the im-l.-r-w .,r,j They had not been taken easily; men in Mix...!., fought like mad to open a way to escape f..r ;1 ., selves and the women with them. In many cn,c, ; e police held the hamls of women bent on mi; ;,! Some of these women, with utter ruin and li-mt. before them, fought the policemen more effe.-m.iii than the men. Some escaped, but they were r." Thus are wc approaching, even in the -i t ;.- , ;' Brotherly Love, the conditions o: ancient S,..j and Gomorrah, says the Catholic. Citizen. .f M; waukce. And some of our church congreat vote solidly for the kind of aldermen who win M . election on a "wide-open town" platform. Wiir ing this, we do not feci like criticising th', ttl;.i ters who chose for their Sunday ennn- t-.i.;, , that have reference to municipal evils. |