| Show tim tbt atily of joiy 27 THET DODGE THE FACTS no camiller caviller ca viller lias been able to point out a single item of misappropriation of city funds by the last Council corn posed of members of the party let him sandy and delve and imagine as he may co ono will be able to discover any such instance the record speaks for itself and is unassailable A convincing proof is that who take a position against any part of that record are put to flight by a single quotation and vainly seek to cover their retreat by a windy assault upon another portion from which in turn their repulse is as prompt and bloodless as before what is true of the financial record is equally true of every other feature of the late administration what are the public improvements which alio new city council has carried out with all the bluster which their friends have made aliey have not been able to put finger upon one single item of legitimate improvement tha not under way when they took control is a plentiful commodity with campaign speakers but such talk as is reported from the liberal meetings is tho purest kind of bosh faals are plentiful too but they are not of the kind which are of service to the opposition nothing could be more beneficial to the peoples campaign than to have sir kentucky smith and his colleagues indulge in a few answers to the charges which have been made if they answered as they doubtless would do if they replied at all they would lose the vote of every decent law abiding citizen in the county hence they prefer not to answer at all they beat about and thresh the air and attack the past and promise for the future all in a jumble of empty and a glimmer of gauzy sophistries sophis tries was a hope some days ago that a campaign with the record for the issue would bo acceptable to the enemy when we hastened to meet them on that basis the hope was soon dispelled their record is tho last thing on earth they want to so be it then but they will learn that prom bees for the future are poor political material when the promises for the past were fulfilled in so notorious a manner |
