The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-03-21
kEN0sHA, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1873

has often saiy q mean the present
Mayor on the board and elsewhere
that he has very little interest in the
CITY, that he could take what little he
has and get outside the city limits in
tWenty.four hours, and if his lenity
with the saloon men and the general
interest Of the city police regulations is
any recommendation, then he is highly
qualified for the honorable but unen-
viable position of Mayor Of the City
Of Kenosha. It would seem also that
he is extremely careless about giving
orders on the City Clerk to issue orders
on the City Treasurer, as he did a
short time ago give q party an order
on the Clerk to issue an order On the
Treasurer to pay draft drawn on the
City in 1875, for the sum Of $4,000
The draft had bsen paid as the Treas
urer (Schoffen) has all the vouchers
and can show the whole circumstance
Now it does seem that q man interes-
tee to any amount in paying taxes
would have looked up that mat
ter most thoroughly before he gave al
order on the City Treasurer for drafts
drawn four or five years ago. He has
no right or power to issue or cause to
be issued an order for $1.0o On the
City Treasurer, yet he gave an order
for the above mentioned large amount
Thank fortune! our Clerk had sense
to utterly refuse to draw any such or
der.
Finally there is no doubt that this
whole thing has been concocted in the
brain Of q Saloon man or Brea0er in
the interest of the saloons, and not the
City, and against the temperance
cause which is doing SO much good at
the present time and so much against
| the saloon business. The citizens who
were roped in were innocent, they had
| the wool completely pulled over their
eyes. But it is not too late yet to get
up a straight Republican Or Temper
ance ticket and elect every man on
that ticket.
A Tcra24raee Man and Many Others.
MR. EDITOR If the meeting of
citizens and politicians Saturday eve
ming last, was called for the purpose
Of selecting the very best men for city
officers for the ensuing year; Then
why was the wire pulled and the trap
sprung, nominal ne four candidates fo1
aldermen for the four wards at one
time, Without any expression of opin-
ion from any one in either Of the four
wards? Was not the whole thing
concOcted in the brain of Beer Man
and Druggist, and covered up by that
terrible thing, the city debt? Why
were the very men selected to act as
aldermen next year who positively re-
fused to resign last year to save the
city from ruin? Why select men to
act as aldermen who go in for stop
ping the schools by refusing to levy
the school tax? Why select men to
| fill the, office Of aldermen, who have not
paid one dollar into the City Debt AS
sociation, and declare that they never
will pay a cent on those bonds? Why
select men to run the city finances
next year who have squandsred 49,
100000 on the streets Of this city the
last year and have nothing to show for
it? And why select men to till those
offices that Invariably vote for low
license and decoy night police into the
Hell Holes to learn them to play six
ty-six, and keep them there until after
II o'clock at night? And why are the
leading Democrats SO anxious to hug
the leading Repu blicans at this time,
and are now trying to have every bus
mess man pledge himself to support
this ticket conceived in Beer, and
brought forth with Docts. and Drugs
And will some one of the cunning
ours answer, Why such a man for
City Mayor, who has little or no in
terest in the city, but perhaps has an
indirect interest in the bonds.
A TAXPAYER.