Show PRESENT administration HAS accomplished MUCH IBS bi their fruits shall ye know them this braim ii ns true today as when it was first by the great lesi leather her of mankind mankina not nl is 19 it is as true but is 13 as to aveo ee g V id i ar act t a mail mv do and every folly he amsy lemmit it can he be applied to his dei dealings lingi in business busine his i with livi his neighbors and friends his fidelity to his religious belief and his consi it 11 cy in politics not only is it appan ahle tn in men individually hut but to men in combinations hut but in business religion or p pi lipics it it is th only criterion by which we cn call rightly judge if the man falls fails to mike good it if the cot cor portion po ration does docs not pay dividends if the religion alces ilces not satisfy the ideals of its communicants if the political party does not how hy by it its works that it is 19 in the line of advance and civic bett betterment ment then eich cich or all of them ire are condemned to the pheap of u useless ueless eless men and combinations on oil monday evening next the tha el electors caorsi of richfield Rich neld will meet in primary elee elec tion to place in nomination i I 1 set of nf municipal mun officers to conduct the husi nes of the city for two years would it not be fitting to review the of 0 those who have ion con ducted its ita business for the pait t two wo years and apply the rule by which w we judge the tha success of their adamini administration 11 tra tion so BO tint that WP we may have soil some light to guide us in the selection of af their heir successor 1 iwo TOO bears ears ago when the present administration came into office the city waterworks water works bonds to the amount of 14 chlo were tue lue lace bonds were drawing gintert at the tire rite of 0 G per cent tile the city dil not have hav the funds necessary for their payment but they the hid had sufficient business bubines 10 lo take them ip dp and replace them at 3 5 jer ier cent anti inti rest thus lar br biging ilont 4 sving inny of if I 1 per ert crt act iaru i i on 1400 during dunna the life of the present administration there has been begun and nearly completed a new and much mae ma e aff al quate equate water system an improvement that had long been needed dad and one thit that the growth of the city citi absolutely required the cost of the new system is estimated at 1000 an economical expend ture turc of la as larne large 1 i I sum of money as this could not he be accomplished with out comoder considerable able labor on the pirt part of those in trusted with mith its dis bura ement every item in the cost of construction had to be carefully scrutinized and every plan that would reduce the coat cost jet et bring about the desired result had to be ba wisely considered the interests teresta in of the people have ever been the thought uppermost in the minds of those who have had charge ot this greit great ministration the public library has been At arted and completed and will soon be ready for occupancy it is II an ornament to the city a credit to the adamini administration araton who have devoted su so much of their time to urging its erection and will be an ail educational education dl to the people on oil the pil streets iron iran cross ings ine hive shive lieen been laid at expense hut with an cne ce to future siring riving and permanency on tin the outside streets savera miles mile of grid grad ing int lit ind garv ehm lias bas been done the rn in tin nn streets of the city hive have been kept up and one of them center street placed in much better con dilion thin before improvements hive been made at the city cemetery evergreen trees have beon been plantel anil and arrangements made for their future furors care all these and min marin more improvements that time space or inclination will not permit men tinning ire thi fill works of the city administration on oil lie side aide of the citi biti parchie h 11 14 been made of HO acres of tani that in the figure will be con of incalculable even at the present time this land could be sold for an advance of 50 pr cent of nt the purchase price thia thi land ind 1 I 1 be lore i as one of the roost most valuable alu able abets of at the present administration at the present time lime the citi is out of debt its ita credit is 13 good at any time and in any place from all that tha ci cin b be be seen e n its bunne g hai hag been administered fur for the past two Y years ears and greater than all all this s has been had under a non license law ithe the old old tory story that the city could not be run aci and improvements made without the license from a M the aale ae of liquors has hag been proven i a myth ind and a fallacy during dunne the present ad there ha been a greit great portion of tl IT time at least two police officers on duty drunkenness and other oher forms of vico vice have been kept below the minimum rights of property have 1 it ind and the laws lawa have been adamini toreiv where ev evi ilenea lence could be found sufficiently atron strong to convict anil and all without the till nd of saloon license the pre present ent city adminis brition has demm the pass possibility of the business of richfield ft ith the saloon closed and it ins his left i a for succeeding administrations to follow these facts rink deep in the to minds 0 o of the elector of the city cit of richfield when they meet in the primary election at 01 monday evening and aar the tha ei antic itic ind fault finder i hive thern tham called to his big notice he should be required to show where lies the fluet to which he refers HP he should be asked to rive give reison reason for his desire to make radical changes and to elect irresponsible men those who knows how the busi of the city has been conducted druding the post past two years assert themselves and return to office for another two keirs as many of the present city administration as signify a willingness willine to serve by their fruits shall ye know them |