Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-04-04
VOL. W. NO. 35
THE weekly ALERT.
J, &, WARNQCK. EDITOR

While we freely grant that there are
respectable and good citizens among the
supporters of MIR. Flint we believe 1t IS
safe to assume that this support comes
more from personal feeling of friendship
for the man than from admiration or en-
dorsement OF his policy as an officer.
There is also class in town, recognized
and known as the worser class, composed
Of gamblers and patrons Of houses of
prostitution, who care nothing for any
one only so far rs they can use him in
their own interests, and the unanimity
with which this class is supporting Mr..
Flint IS not only apparent to any OBJ
server of city politics but it is the subject
OF frequent remark. There must be a
reason for this support also, and as it
cannot be accounted for on the grounds
OF personal friendship 1t ls not unreason-
able to conclude that it 10 from self in
terest. This element always and very
naturally supports the candidate for an
executive office from whom it expects to
receive the most favors or at least the
most indulgence. 1t is just as natural
and reasonable for that element to do
this as 1t is for the better element to
gravltatc towards and support an execu-
tive who will use his authority in putting
down and stamping out evils that arise
in our midst and defy the laws Of the
city. 1t is-a notorious and humlliating
fact that gambling and prostitution have
increased during Mayor Flint's admins
tration, and that disgraceful nocturnal
orgies and dark deeds of violence have
not been as unfrequent as good govern
ment demands. The interests, prosperl-
ty, name and fame Of our city demand
that these growing evils he checked and
suppressed and the logic of past events
point to change Of the head of our city
administration as the remedy. Mayor
Flint cannot plead ignorance OF these
things without at the same time admit.
ting an indifference to and negligence Of
the moral condition of his constituents
which would be much more reprehensi-
BILE. As the head of the police force,
which is at all times subject to his order,
he cannot shift the responsibility upon
his subordinates and appolntees.
Mr.. Flint ls before the people of this
city as candidate for reelection upon
the merits Of his past administration and
by them he must either stand or fall. He
seeks an endorsement Of his past admin
istration by a re- election and that would
he taken as warrant froc: the people to
pursue the same policy in the future. Do
the people endorse the gambling hells
and houses of prostitution, with all their
concomitant evils and corruptlng and
.lemoraliz,ng influences, that have grown
up ana flourshed during Mayor Flint's
administration?
MI. Flint has been vaclllat,ng where
stability and decision OF character should
have asserted themselves and has been
obstinate in the matter of appointments
where concession to the wishes OF the
council should have modified the exer-
else or his p,erogatives. In the early part
Of his administration, when, in accord
ance with the wishes OF the great mass
nf the people, the council passed an or
,l,nauce increasing the saloon license 10
$500 year he vetoed and defeated it.
Later in the year the council passed an
ordinance raising the license to $500 a
year which lie neither vetoed nor tried to
defeat hut allowed 10 become law with
out his sanction or objection. lie was
very decided in the opinion that the $500
license ordinance was too high but 80 un-
decided upon that point with reference
TO the $500 ordinance that he was neutral,
and the result of his vacillation on the
liquor license question is that the saloons
are now paying 1900 more year for
license than if the mayor had approved
the 1900 ordinance with which the pub
lie would have been satisfied. His record
On this question is both low and high
license, the first by declaration in his
veto and the latter by implication in his
silence.
All know Thos. b. Lloyd to be man
Of stability and decision Of character.
They know just where to find him He
is not politician nor an Office seeker.
lie Is not double-dealing nor one thing to
one party and another thing to another
party. lie IS not radical upon anything,
In. conservative and level-headed in all
things. All the business interests If the
city will be protected in their legal rights
without tear or favor, and gam bling dens
!. and houses Of H. fame will be suppressed
and the fair name and fame OF James.
town will he redeemed from the blighta
that have come upon it the past year
Every person who owns properly in the
CITY has financial interest in good city
government. Every man who hss fam.
tly Of children has AL interest in driving
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