Daily Republican., 1881-06-18
The Next Clerk Of Council.

In short time there will he a Clerl,
OF Council to elect, for in all probabil-
ity the present clerk, Mr.. Frazer, will
he made Secretary of the City and State
Board of Health, when Of course he
cannot at the same time ill the office
of Clerk of the City Council. Amongst
the candidates to succeed Mr.. Frazer
rs Clerk of the City Council, is our old
friend Mr.. William H. Lee. Ii there
is such thing in politics, that to the
workers belong the spoilS, then is Mr..
Lee eminently entitled to almost any
Office in the gift Of his party in this
city. There is hot a man in it, not ex-
cepting that whole souled Democrat H
d. McIn ire, that has done more to
make the party successful than MI |
Lee. When he removed into the Fifth |
ward and took charge of the City Hos
pital, he found trom.l75 to 80 Republi-
Tan majority in the ward 1t was not
long however before this Republican
Gratis were sent to represent the ward
in the City Council. As to the means
taken to bring about this result it is no.
body's business. 1t is enough to know
that there We're said to be enough votes
an the ballot boxes to turn the scale. II
matters not that Gus" O'Donuell,
"Brockey" Tom, and number OF others
voted few times more aU that cleo
tion than the law allows, the great
thing was to get the votes in the ballot
box. This was done under IIr. Lee,
occupation of the Fifth ward, but OF :
course nobody suspects him of having
had any thing to do with setting up !
such a job. William Washington
Pritchett and Sergeant Dolan will stand y
sponsors for Mr.. Lee, and will establish
a character for him pure and white as
the spotleSs snow. The Democratic
party is also under greater obliga- !,
tions to MIR. Lee for experimenting the :.
Eleventh ward bill whereby it is ex- u
pected to make solid Democratic cor. y
her OF the city, including the First
Third, Tenth and Eleventh wards. =
There have been no elections held in II
those wards yet and the thing NAV not Il
pan out as well as Mr.. lee expects, un
less the .ate farce called school cleo
ton - tt De taken as evidence of the ~
future political standing of those wards. "
1t was no trouble for Mr.. Lee to seize ~
hold of the First Third and Tenth VI
wards, cut slice off Christiana Hun.
Cred, Jumble them up together, turn
the crank Of the political machine, and t,
h[ihg out four Democratic wards. And a
now that the First, Third and Tenth L
wards have been turned "eend about, " IL
and made TO run North and South in c
stead of east and west as formerly, il u
they do not all pan out strong healthy v
Democratic wards, it will nOS be Mr.. e;
Lees fault We would compliment St
Mr. Lee, by saying that if he could tt
only be ubiquitous and make himself a III
resident of every ward in the city at do
the same time, and be furnished with OF
What is known as ''the sinews of war"
every ward in the city would be made
Democratic, not even excepting the .,
Seventh. Such worker in the party ~
deserves recognition, and considering T.,
The services rendered he is modest in
asking for nothing more than to be G;
made Clerk Of the City Council. and ii 81
he Democratic members of the CITY ne
Council do not elect Mr.. Lee as their j.
Clerk, they will be guilty of the bascst r.
ngratitude TO the hardest worker in th
The party 1t