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Show aro necessary because almost six years of the worst government of any city, in any civilized community, has ! ever endured." James Bronson Reynolds, who was a special Investigator In tho Roosevelt administration, has arrived In New YorK and opened an office In Fifth avc- J nuo. It is said that he has the back- ' lng of Mr. Rooaevelt In bringing about a fusion of all anti-Tammany forces In the mayoralty campaign this fall. Mr. Reynolds names among other pos- i sdblliUes for major on the fusion ticket tick-et President Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia university. SCHEME TO BETTER BET-TER MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT MAN OF MERIT AND HONESTY , WANTED FOR MAYOR. Promoters of Movement Suggest Paying Pay-ing Him $125,000 a Year Above Regular Salary. New York, March 12. In order to obtain for tho office "of mayor of New York a man of sufficient merit and honesty to carry out the changes proposed pro-posed in the new city charter, promoters pro-moters of an independent movement for the election of a "purified" municipal mu-nicipal ticket proposed to pay him an- nual salary of $125,000 a year, or for the term of four years a bonus of $500,000 oer and above the regular salary of the office. It Is suggested that the difference be raised by popular subscription. A statement issued is-sued by those active in the movement, who as yet designate themselves merely mere-ly as taxpayers, says in part: "Such a man for such a Job should be found among the younger generations genera-tions of the 'captains of Industry.' In commercial life, such a man could count his Income in the hundreds of thousands. Therefore let twenty-flvo public spirited citizens pledge them-.ffiken them-.ffiken auonymously, so far as the public pub-lic Is concerned, to contribute every year during the next four years, an amount sufficient to produce in the ag-greRate ag-greRate the sum of $125,000 a year. "If anyone accepts this unique offer of-fer and li elected, he must agree not to be a candidate for re-election nor participate in any partisan politics during his Incumbency. Dackers of the plan assert that radical measures |