The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-01-10
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A Few Points for Those Interested
In To-Day,s Election,

There are abundant reasons why you
should take sides with the LEADER in
favor of Joseph NJ. Carey for mayor on
to-day's election, reasons which appeal
strongly to every person who has any
interest in the welfare of the city and
its material prosperity.
During the past year Mr.. Carey has
been most thoroughly interested in
giving Cheyenne a system of water
works equal to its wants, and in doing
this he has succeeded finally in obtain
ing a contract which everyone admits
to be most economical for the city and
favorable in its terms; and which,
signed, will guarantee any citizen water
for irrigation, household uses and use
against fires the whole year round, and
at a cost much lower than the rent
paid for the present limited and uncer-
tain system.
1t is a fact which has proven too
great an inconvenience and a too alarm
ing state Of things to pass unnoticed,
that under the limits of the present
water supply, times have repeatedly
been when, If in an Inflated moment,
the inc~endiary's match or the luckless
spark had started a blaze, the whole
city would have gone for all the good
our fire department could have done
with empty hydrants and untitled hose.
Through the efforts of Mr.. Carey and
those members Of the council interested
with him, we are on the eve Of a
change in this unsatisfactory state of
things, unless the efforts of a few mall
contents and the non-progressiye por-
ton OF Il citizens linked with the GER
tain others whose selfish personal i'm
terests live and die with the old state
of things, shall succeed in striking a
blow ut the renewed life and business
activity Of our city, by the defeat of
our candidate, which IS well, means a
defeat of the measures of Improvement
he has instituted.
The fight resolved itself into a ques-
ton of ample water for all uses at low
rates, or no water for any use to
amount to anything at high rates,
Mr.. Carey during the past year, aud
in fact during his residence in Chey-
enne, has been most prominent in the
gO-a-head element of the city, that ele-
ment which rears public buildings,
erects business blocks and builds up the
prosperity of the city. To-day he is in
the var Of that party which through
these improvements and the confidence
inspired has enhanced the value of real
estate one-third and given work to
scores Of laborIng men.
Every laboring man who votes
against our candidate, Joseph NJ. Ca
rey in to-day's election nails a nail in
his own coffin. Whyp Because he is
voting into the shade the party which
gives him ample work to do, and is vot-
ing into power the element which does
not add to the material growth of the
city nor has any use for sricklayers,
carpenters, painters and other laborers.
To-day's election resolves itself into
the question of progress. building, in
creased demand for labor or stand-still
and utter lack of enterprise, with the
invariably slow demand for labor and
accompaniment of poor pay.
The merchant whose trade is increas-
ed or decreased by the prosperity or
decline of the city; the tradesman
the demand for whose handiwork Gibbs
and flows with the birth or life of trade;
the mechanic whose family depends
upon the demand or lack of demand for
comfort or rigid economy; the day
laborer whose hands supply his demands
as there is or is not demand for labor;
all these, If they are consistent men,
viii array themselves upon the side of
those who create increased prosperity,
lively demand for material, skill and
labor, through the Investment of their
capital in their midst, and, not with
those who as a class neither build manu-
facture nor support public enterprise.
Enterprise and push are elements of
prosperity while conservatism is the
excuse of seli5hness.
During all his public career, Mr..
Carey has shown himself to be united,
unfettered, but an independent man,
who has worked and does work for
the interests of the community ire
spective of the behest of cliques, fac
tions and selfish organizations. AS an
independent man working for the city
and its citizens irrespective of outside
interests, he has aided in placing tie
city In a position of independence and
incurred the displeasure of interests
which cannot warp him to serve their
purpose.
To day a political fight resolves itself
into a single question of whether the
city Of Cheyenne shall conduct its own
affairs in accordance with its own inter-
ests or whether 1t shall be conducted
according to the dictates of other inter-
ests.
The Shortest Cut to the Grave
Is taken by thousands who, with COM
mon prudence might live to enjoy a