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Show l RICHMOND REPUBLICANS ASK FOR VOTES ON RECORD OF If PRESENT ADMINISTRATION by? Save Taxpayers One Hundred per cent. iV on Work of Repairing Waterworks fr Have Converted Wooden Boxes into jh Concrete. Depot Road Eyesore Removed 19? MBi Richmond, Oct. 2D. Tlio Republl- u'v cans of Hlc'.imond feci confident tlmt HI, the clcctornto at tlio municipal clcc- MMfc Hon on Tuesday, November 2, will B,' sco the necessity df returning tlio ' party in power to olllco again on tlio I record made during the past two if? years. Thoy contend that It Is tho ' , most progresslvo administration ov- i l er given In tho history or the city. kl I Tlio Mayor, Hon. C. Z. Harris, 0 lias made a good ofllc'al and whllo S ho coulU not seo lilg way clear to 1 accept a second term, tho Republl- . can candidate for tho ofllce of May. Bor, Mr. A. A. Thomas, Is a man who has mado a success of his own bud-ness bud-ness ond n man with a clean record. Ho has been ono of tho most ardent workers In the city council during tho past two years and hns shown much executive nblltty In the water works department whoro ho has spent most of bis efforts. As for Henry Plant, aspirant to tho ofllco of City Recorder, for a second term, It can bo truthfully said ( V that Mr. Plant has mado a most " . dutiful official. His oxpcrlenco " should bo carefully considered by tho ' voters and there Is no question but ; ' that ho will bo returned to that of fice with n handsomo vote. Ills books bavo been pronounced to bo In as good shapo as ono could expect ex-pect them to be, were bo working for n prlvato corporation. Tho other candidates on the Republican Re-publican ticket nro men who nro all I well known In the community, and If elected to olllce will keep up the good work of tho past administration. administra-tion. They aro men who bollovo Jn public improvements and will' al ways bo found making tho most of 'f tho moneys at their dlsposa' . If j the peoplo want the kind of an ad- ' , ministration that has cbarncterlzed tho past two years, ono of economy nnd efficiency, thero will bo no lies-itency lies-itency In voting tho Republican tick- et straight. I.'" In casting your ballot on Tuesday next .here are somo of tho facts that ' should bo carefully considered by " tho voter: "' A Republican Record ' . Tho Republican party of Richmond submit tho following for tho consld oration of voters: 1. Conditions, financial and otherwise, other-wise, bavo not warranted us in trying try-ing to do lilg things but wo have Is dono little things right. 2. The muddy streets cnusod from fa leaks in tho city water works pipes, (V ' aro now 05 per cent dry. Wo have repaired leaks at a cost less than i $l.r0 each, whllo former contract P, price was ?3 per leak. This condl- ' Hon has been brought about largely I by A. A. Thomas, chairman of the J water works committee if 3. A great nnoynnco to the cltl- I zens of Richmond, has been the flood- I lug of streets In Irrigating season, through the lack of streot crossing culverts nnd properly cleaned ditches, ditch-es, and untrlmmed trees overhanging tho sidewalks. Fifty permanent street culverts have been put In, nnd last spring trees wero trimmed nnd ditches cleaned out tho best they bavo been for years, nnd very fow streets wero flooded during tho summer. sum-mer. 4. A shortage of city water developed devel-oped tho fact that wo had a water system without n right to any water, except two small springs that furnish furn-ish less than a fifth of our requirements. require-ments. Today wo bavo on record at a minimum cost a deed to the city of ono and ono hnlf second feet of the wnters of piiorry Creek which will give us nn ample supply of water wa-ter as soon ns It enn bo delivered Into In-to our water systom. This Is tho best move mado In any ono city administration ad-ministration for years. ".. Realizing that a failure In our nttempts to prosecuto bootleggers would bo fatal to tho best Interest of tho community, wo wero determined determ-ined to mnko our first enso stick, therefore we took time to carefully and systematically collect posltlvo evidence beforo ranking nrrcsts. After Af-ter weeks of vlgllanco we collected tiio evidence and had an nbso'uto'y suro case, Just ,as wo were determined determ-ined to do beforo making any inovo toward prosecution. Wo mado tho nrrest, had tho day set for trial, and now, Imaglno our disappointment and chagrin, when we wero Informed by our own attorneys that our own city records through tho neglect of a former for-mer Democratic administration show" ed wo were not a dry town and our caso would bo thrown out of court If wo went to trial. Of courso, wo had to compromise nnd In splto of tho expense our bootlegging account r-iows n bnlanco on tho right sldo of the ledger. Today, through tho action of tho Republican administration adminis-tration our city records show that wo bad n liquor election In Juno 191T and that wo nro a dry city, nnd upon securing evidence wo enn successfully suc-cessfully prosecuto. . Wo hnvo removed the old depot de-pot hill eyesoro and replaced It with n good permanent gravel road. Wo also now Iiavo ono mllo of permanent perma-nent graded and graveled good road built whoro the entlro public travel ns a result of two years of Republican Republi-can ru'o of similar road put In during dur-ing twenty years of former Democratic Demo-cratic administrations. 7. Ilccnuso of Republican ru'o, Old dory, tho flag wo love, floats to tho breezes on holidays from n neat flag pole, Instend of being tnngled up nmong wires on public days, ns It formerly did. 8. Wo bavo given nn economic nd-mlnlstrntlon nd-mlnlstrntlon and will have a bigger ba'anco on hand January 1, 191C than wo started with |