The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-03-21
DANGER AHEAD!

payer to ask a few questions through
the columns Of the TELEGRAPH? In
! the first place it may be proper to men
! ton that there was q private meeting
of a few citizens and politicians last
Saturday evening the 10th, TO look up
! the estcandidates for the several city
offices for the Spring Election, as
iour amendment to the City Charter
gives Us the power to run the city gov
eminent with four Aldermen, Clerk
| and Mayor. Now it would seem that
the present existing city troubles ought
to call to these offices the very best
men tina can be found to fill those re-
sp0nsible positions, and that they
should be called out by the citizens
and not by eng one man, which GER
tainly was the case in the nomination
of the four aldermen whom it is pro
posed to elect at the next Charter Elec-
tion. Now the first question I would
ask is, Are these the right Or best men
to take the responsible positions of
Aldermen for the coming year? Let
us look into a little Of their past his
tory as recorded in the City Clerks
Office. This we have a perfect right to
do in the case OF any candidate for
office. The gentleman proposed from
the list Ward is all right on the City
interest generally.
The man from the Cd Ward we can
not say SO much for, as the Street ana
Alley account for the past year will
show. He was chairman Of the COM
mittee on Streets and Alleys, and has
drawn Gas / am told by the City Clerk
over $4,000 from the City Treasury
and there has been collected in poll tax
about $500 more, so that there has
been expended ON the streets and al
leys Of this little city in six months
from the first day Of May 1877 to the
first day Of November 1877 all Of Three
| Thousand Dollars. Now in the name
of ali thatis good and great, where has
this atiSunt gone to? Let him or any
one else answer. He is also saloon
keeper and not only voses and acts
| for the interest Of the saloons, but
| breaks the city ordinances every day
OF his life, but / cannot 60 into details
/ in each case.
! The Third Ward man is o GOOD
citizen, q strong republican, but
his record shows that he has acted
with and for the saloon men. He has
voted invariable for low license. and
not only that, but when saloon men
| have applied for and obtained license
and failed to make it pay he has work
ed hard to have the city purchase their
i license, or in other words to pay them
their money back, which the Council
| (haVlng no right or power to
| do) and did net do. He has
not payed his share into the City
Debt Association and declares that the
tax is illegal and can never be collec
ted, that the city would rise in arms
and burn and destroy their property
before they would pay those bonds.
The man(D Gas it takes seven tailors
to make a MANI from the 4th ward, as
he has been on the City Council we
can look into his record aud see what
he has or has not done. He utterly re-
fused to pledge himself to yote tax
on the city to pay back the money, pro-
yided any party or parties could be
found to loan the money, to buy up all
the outstanding bonds to clear up the
whole thing, and when there were some
parties who offered to buy them up for
Thity thousand dollars, he would not
do or promise to do anything about it.
He has always voted for the lowest
possible license, and to pay money
back to persons who gave up saloon
keeping because it would not pay. But
it is not worth while to spend any
more time over such arecord. Now
if these things and many more that
might be mentioned are true are these
the proper and best men for Aldermen
for the next year? To be sure it is
hard to get men to accept and qualify
as they are afraid of the City Debt sc.
And as there is always stir and stencil
about city debt and city bonds when
the present incumbent holds the Office
of City Mayor, should we not elect
| for City Mayor man who has an in