, 1880-04-04

democrats" thereby excluding the appoint
ment Of Intelligent and experienced men who
may not belong to that party. On the South
| Side THE Republican candidate for Assessor
| is the same who served so .acceptably last
year. On the West Side the Democrats have
! discarded the acceptable Assessor of 1S70,
and selected person wholly unit for the
! Office. -. :. ::
| The public have bad occasion within :tthe
last feW weeks ;tosWitness the irresponsible
and reelzlessfe1pr,aas pf; a*1afge faction Of the
present City Council totwastA tie public
money, TO increase the city expenditures
beyond all reasonable limit ands to-. appro-
| PIRATE and sQunnder even tbs sayingggo oE: The
last few years Of economy. These men were
uncomfortable; they were deaf to reason
| and to every sentiment Of public interest;
! they we're intent upon an increase of offices,
| an increase Of salaries, and an expenditure
of public money limited only by the greatest
| sum of money Oh hand, that could be raised
| by taxation, and that could be borrowed by
! the issue of scrip.
A large number of this spendtlrift and
irresponsible class will be found in the list
of candidates. In the First Ward Frank
Warren seeks the place now held by DR..
Wickersham. The greatest embarrassment
! that political party can labor under is tho
responsibility and disgrace of electing q man
! to Office who ought not to be elected, and
who is perpetual reproach. DR.. Wicker
! sham isa Democrat-an intense one,-but he
is an honest intelligent, and competent man,
and We believe that III the end the Repnb-
licans Of The First Ward and Of tho city have
more to gain and less to lose by his election
than they have by the election of Warren.
It is to be hoped the Democrats OF the
Second Ward, for like reasons, will unite with
the Republicans and elect Mr.. Billings over
Pat Sanders.
In the Third and Fourth Wards tllt candi-
dates who will be elected arc certain to be
reputable men.
In the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth
Wards there is numerous body of cand-
dates, and the best thing Republicans and all
other voters can do is to vote for the best
Democrats they can iind This is especially
true Of the Eighth Ward, where there should
be a general union OH Mr., Amterg to defeat
the pestfferous LaWler.
Mr.: Smyth will be elected, as he ought to
be, in the Ninth Ward.
In the Tenth Ward there should be such
union Of all voters as will elect Mr.. J. II.
Cruver.
Mr. Bond will, Of course, be elected in the
Eleventh Ward.
In the Twelfth Ward Col. Hubert, Of the
Sherman House, was nominated by the Re-
publican caucus without opposition. lie Is
i'll every respect worthy of the support of the
nf n, Far }ho{o p ,o+4,
office. Not Il word Of objection has been Or
can be uttered against his election, and OH
party grounds, if not personal, his friends
can claim that he is entitled to the support of
the Republicans. Mr. Williams, who is M
independent candidate; is also'a Republican,
and is highly commended by his friends.
Mr.. Brady should be, and will undoubtedly
be, elected in the Thirteenth Ward.
In the Fourteenth Ward the contest is mar
rowcd down to choice between Staubcr,
the Communist, and J. J. McGrath, and it is
to be hoped that the people Of that ward, |
acting in sympathy with those of the Fiji |
tcenth and Sixteenth Wards, will unite to |
relieve the Council Of the reproach OF Com |
munism. =
That Mr.. Young, in the Fifteenth, aid Mr. |
4iiAo143 At 1uC olAtCCAtA ~ Atus Nl44UE clCEucA
over their Communist opponents is heartily
wished for by the whole city.
The Seventeenth Ward has to choose be-
tween Mr.. :Tierney, Democrat, and Mr..
Murphy, Republican, and the latter is un-
Questionably the better of the two.
The contest iii the Eighteenth Ward hos
been adroitly complicated with tl1e bodle- /
ward question. MIR. Burley, the Republican
candidate lives on Dearborn avenue, and has
been charged with fayoring that street for
the boulevard. Alr. Burley, however. dis
claims any connection between his candidacy
and the boulevard. The present Council will
probably decide that question; but, even if it
do not, lie declares that lie will not, as
member of the Council, vote either way. Being
an interested person, he will not vote on the
question. as the only objection urged against
Mr.. Burley has been In connection with the
his disclaimers ought to be salts
factory and his election certain.
Voters cannot afford to neglect this cleo
ton. One year Of city government controlled
by hummer majority in tho City Coun-
Gil would cost directly and Indirectly many
millions Of dollars in the way of extra taxes.
All the results Of four years of wise economy
would be swept away, and the system of
hummer government, once restored, will cost
years of effort to overthrow it. Prevention
is better than cure, and prevention can only
be had by voting on electio,l-lay. l.
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