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Show PICK BEST MEN FOR TRUSTEES Next Tuesday, November 6th, will be city election day. Two tickets have been nominated for the offices of mayor and four other members of the town board. The first nominations nomina-tions were made by the Republicans. The nominees are as follows: W. F. Cottrell, mayor; Leo Bo wen, Morrison Mor-rison Hickman, Arthur Wood and Clark Kesler. The Democrats nominated Pres. W. Duffin, mayor; Morrison Hickman, Hick-man, H. J. Barton, Joe Kinney and Chas Beard. No campaign seems to be in progress pro-gress for the election of any candidate. candi-date. There are numerous suggestions suggest-ions being made, especially since the revelation made at the recent mass meeting of citizens held last week to consider a new direct tax for paying pay-ing for the city lights. The earnest and sincere contention of this paper that the dity's financial condition and the monthly proceedings of the town trustees should be published was at that time very completely and entirely unexpectedly sustained. It DOES make a great difference to the taxpayers of Milford who is elected to the high and honorable position of mayor and membership on the board of town trustees. And the reason it is important is evident to every one who is familiar with the revelations made at the mass meeting meet-ing and which were published in last week's issue of this paper. When any man takes the position as the representative of his fellow citizens to transact their business, the citizens want him to DO what he swears he will do when he accepts ac-cepts the office. Rather than fail to do that he should resign. If a man swears that he will attend to the duties of the office to the best of his ability and does not attend to such office at all, except as it may happen to be convenient at odd times, he is a mighty poor public servant and should resign. If he employs others oth-ers to work for the city in any capacity, ca-pacity, he should demand efficient service. Inefficient 'service should be treated as he would treat such inefficiency were the employe . hfs own hired man or woman. The News has "no ax to grind." We do not have an unkindly feeling for any official or member of the city board. We do know, and some of them are frank to freely admit, that the present administratiop of the city's affairs has been woefully inefficient in some very important particulars. Now is the time- to correct cor-rect this matter. The blame of the situation is largely due to the citizens. citi-zens. Their apathy has aided in bringing about this- "don't give a cuss for the town" attitude of some men. The citizens and the officers must co-operate to secure the best results. Why not begin now. Dont vote for any man who will not agree to give whatever time is necessary to properly conduct the business of Milford as a thriving, growing town. Members of the town board and especially es-pecially the mayor should BE LEADERS in every public enterprise and NOT LAGGERS. With the proper leadership. Milford Mil-ford will double in population within with-in the next three years. |