The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-12-14

Elsewhere We publish The committees APP
pointed by DIR. C.. A. Logan, for the purpose
Of investigating and devising measures of mu-
nicipal and county reform. This is matter
in which every tax payer is interested, and
one on which the public press should sound
no uncertain note. We take exceptions to
two members of the Committee on City AZ
fairs, viz: ID. X. Anthony and Geo. H. Eng
lish, and one on County Affairs, Hon. ID. J..
Brewer. Our dissatisfaction with these APP
| pointments proceeds from no personal feel
ing or motives, but is based simply on the
fact of their manifest unfitness, and a Ger
tainiy that they will be equally unsatisfac-
tory 10 the people. We want no one who is
either an office holder, an Office seeker, or
Who is affiliated with Office holders or office
seekers. 1t is matter for business men and
property holders alone, who will have no in
terest in being anything but rad
ical, impartial and thorough in the
work of retrenchment. Reform is
not 10 be PLAYED at as a parlor game, but
should be entered into in downright earnest
ness for the common relief 1t is our belief
that committee OF five is inadequate 70. the
purpose of satisfactorily performing the
work in hand. II should he increased to
twenty-five, and include majority Of bust
ness men, who have too much at stake 10 he
anything but earnest, thorough and rnre-
lenting in looping of orr useless and cx-
travagant expenditures Commercial.
We read the above with surprise and as
tonishment. We learn from the proprietor
that the article was written by the editor of
the Commercial. He is a boy, just graduated
from school, whose knowledge of public af-
fairs and the finances of the city and county
of Ieavcnworth is as limited As his good
sense.
There are Ten on the committee, Lowe, d.
r. Anthony, Spry, English, Taylor, J. W.
Morris, Brewer, John Wilson, Pierce and
Foote. Every one Of these men have either
held Office, been candidates for office, or have
been conspicuous before the people as politi-
clans.
Therefore when the Commercial takes ex-
ceptions to the three named, it only exhibits
It's maliciousness, for all Of the ten commit
t,emen are "oilice holders, Office seekers or
affiliated with Office holders or Office seek
ers." Indeed we would like TO have the
man named in Leavenworlh who, having
fair amount of brains and
good sense has, not either held
IN Office, been a candidate or been affiliated
with them. II you can find a man who has
not, you will find man 20 extremely selfish
and sordid that he does not take interest
enough in public affair, TO see that good
men are elected and that the laws are
honestly administered.
As for ID. Z. Anthony, for many years he
has persistently advocated city retrenchment
and reform with all the earnestness of his
nature. At last the repeated robberies, the
operations by which the City AMI
County of Leavenworth has been swindled
and the numerous leaks whereby the public
funds have escaped, have attracted public
attention.
The parties in power in both city and
county for the past six years, were placed
there with the support of the Commercial.
That paper not only advocated the election of
these officials but has for six years supported
and defended these administrations
d. X. Anthony has been for six years OPP
posed to the policy pursued by these officials.
He has go stated time and time again; he has
pointed out these wrongs; he has shown the
people where, when and how they have been
robbed.
1t looks very much, therefore, as though |
he Commercial was afraid that its connection |
With the frauds of the past would be exposed,
,r else that they do not desires reform. We
10 not know, but we have s suspicion that
he men who furnished the proprietors with
he means to purchase the Commercial, and
some ofihem are men who to-day are rob-
':ng the city and county, are the real parties
Who dictate what shall be said in the
CbAmaciol We do know that the editor is
mere tool, who writes what he is told to
vrite for the sum of fifteen dollars per week.
The Commercial stands in the same position
oward the frauds at home that the Ne~
York World stands With the Tamm,ny Ring.
I did all in its power to prevent an inves,i-
alton, to conceal and to protect the swim
len, until the thieves and robbers were
and then it "whopped' over and
ras the loudest monthed in denunciation of
he robbers ring.
Thank God, the people are aroused, and
hey are no longer terrified at the cry
d. r. Anthony. The people know that
}. r. Anthony is thoroughly posted upon (:
Ne question Of the finances of the city and 4,
'unty. They know that he ia honest, and Z
~ know he riu do his duty fearlesly and I
ell They know that his all is invested Q
ere, and that he will unmssk the thieves; G
ID the people will aid and sustain him in his '
5orss, until the Leavenworth ring will be 4
,rsed - heartily - the New York ring of e
'ievs and plnnderen.
The end o; the robben' ring jraweth nigh. d
VINO N? i
The Record thinks Clarke il omniposent nj
'ashinston, and the Onge Journal says
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