Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-07
Communicated
OUR CITY GOVERNMENT
Is THE BEST IN ALL THE LAND.

4 Opn9
burg In the Past Few Years.
The Republican party of the city of Pitts
burg comes before its people for their sup
port in the present triennial municipal
Mayoralty contest more proudly and conf
| IDENTIFY than it has in many years. The
pride is justifable as the reasons therefor
will demonstrate.
Within the past three years the methods
of governing the city and conducting its
municipal affairs have been so radically
changed as TO almost amount to revolution.
| The departmental system has regulated the
| desultory regimes that antedated it. and
what has been the result? Intelligent ex-
penditure has supplanted aimless and un-
profitable waste of the peoples money and
there has been steady and systematic reform
in every detail of every department OF the
| city government.
In the Department of Public Safety the
Iowliest citizen and taxpayer vies with his
millionaire neighbor in attesting his ad-
miration OF the measures that have been de-
vised and made practicable for their mutual
protection. The fire department is one of
| the best equipped, best disciplined and most
effective on the continent and as a result the
percentage of loss by fire in this city is
smaller than that of any other city of its size
and exposure to danger in the country. The
Police Bureau has been organized on prIn-
ciples that leave nothing for even the COM
mon carper to grumble at Gambling in
all of its forms, policy playing, dives, dens
and sinks of iniquity have been abolished
and broken up, and not single haunt of
the gambler is known to any citizen of
Pittsburg. The temptations to which the
youth of the city were formerly exposed
have been permanently removed, and the
grateful thanks of parents come hourly and
daily to the head of this department therefor.
BlackmaiIing and venal Aldermen and
constables have been hunted down, exposed
and imprisoned. The morals of the city in
every one of its wards have been improved
and the sources of crime banished from our
municipal limits. The Judges of the Grim
inal Courts take every occasion to compli-
ment not only the system of repression and
suppression, but go farther and distinguish
those whose intelligence and vigorous action
made those reforms practicable. The i'm
provement in the streets in the matter of
grading, curbing, paving and street exten-
sion, as the direct result of the organization
OF the Department of Public Works is an
other source of popular pride and gratiica-
tion. Miles and miles of old streets have
been repaired in a manner that makes the
improvement permanent, and this year the
projected Improvements are of such nature
Under the enterprising efforts of the head of
this department Mrs. Schenley has given
absolutely to the city of PIttsburg ground
sufficient to make one of the most mag
nihcent and picturesque parks In the
Union. Under the operation of the same
influence steps have been taken, and the
movement is well under way, looking to the
acquisition of the grounds composing the
United States arsenal, in the Seventeenth
ward, for park purposes, and within year
it will be added to the breathing spots" of
the city.
The Department of Charities has filed
the measure of its projectors as fully as
that of both of its successful followers. Ten
years ago it cost so per cent more under the
loose system OF conducting affairs in vogue
among the poor boards when there were only
an average of Al lunatics to take care OF at
the City Farm, than it now does with sew
eraI hundred. The city poor, as well as
those taken care of at the City Farm, are
better cared for and more cheaply provided
for than at any time in our municipal his
tory.
These are ineontestable facts and no DEM
ocrat can gainsay one of them. There can
not a charge of Encouragement, frittering
away the public money or official malfeas-
ance lie against the smallest officer under
the new regime. Not a breath of scandal
has 1oated toward the Office of a single de-
partment. Not q suspicion of incompeteney
has attached to the name of any OF the off
cials or any one of the heads OF one of the
departments.
Can the Democratic party say as much?
simultaneously with the nomination of their
candidate for the mayoralty come the credi-
tors of the great iron firm of Graft Bennett
& Co. and circumstantially show the
frln InY Tnn rNnfa aF Tnh Das1
and prove it from the court records. These
records show that in single business trans
action Mr.. Bailey was either ignorant Of the
smallest elements Of business principles or
else ignored the interests of those whose sf-
fairs he was appointed to look after solely
and absolutely.
Here are the respective records of the
parties and their respective heads. Each
comes before the people with their respective
credentials properly prepared and attested
to. 1t is for the people to choose between
them. On the one hand they have the fruits
of system that is improving the city,
broadening and prospering their municipal
ity on principles that are undermining and
giving the maximum of benefits, while they
are coming at the minimum of expenditure
derived from taxation. On the other, they
are asked to support a man whose business
knowledge is problematical, the practice
of which has been to demolish and devas-
tate, rather than to hold up and strengthen.
Mr.. Bailey. in his speech of acceptance,
frankly confessed his absolute ignorance of
municipal affairs, and acknowledged that
his attack on the Republican party was
predicated upon information received from
those who are his political groomers, and
whose names he declined to give.
BARGAINS in leather pOods-center conn.,