The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-04-06
A Few Election Lessons.
Every election has its lessons

l. The people have sa d, in no
unmstakable voice, Owe are tired |
OF and disapprove of the way our
free schools are managed we de-
msnd a change" Do the school
committee and the superinter Il mt
"get the idea ~
2. The city marshall has been
told, In his small aiority, that he
has been too lax in the enforcement
of the laws. Whether tho mayor
fines man or not, he should be
promptly arrested each time he
violates the law. No use to arres,
a m an for a lose, pnhitched team,
when houses are run by the known
breakers of all laws and traducel. Of
society. The people demand the
laws Ell forced without fear or favor
Let the marshal get the i lea.
3. Tne aldermen defeated in the
Third ward denied the right of a
citizen and tax payer to be heard.
The people said, we "got the idea"
This city is for the people.
q. the city attorney goes into
tli1e "by election with MA iority
vote. The lesson we hope the cit,
attorney will prcfit by-that while
he was holding his office by cap
pointmen, he hardly executed the
laws "without fear or favor" He
is not the attorney for any city OIL
Ger, but the CITY ATTORNEY for the
defense of laws broken by violation,
which must he upheld for the in.
terest of the people. Please re
member the IN VS. are ma lie for the
people. All violators are against
the people, whether up stairs or
down stairs.
5. BY the election and re election
of aldermen in the First, Second,
and Third sud Fifth wards, the peo
/ 9 have said: owe want intelli-
gent clean men men we can locate
before as as we'll as after election,
in the streets rs well as in the city
council. Men into whose hands we
could place our business. y
6. The alderman defeated in the
Fourth ward has ma lie a fearless,
efficient officer. Yet he is the agent
of the most powerful, most tyrani-
cal and most oppressive monopoly
in Waco, and while in no way to
blame )r his connection with tt ut
monopoly, yet while the Intelligent
people Of Waco a lmire and approve
an outspoken man, like this alder
man, yet the people are down on
monopolies. Get the idea?
7. While the defeated assistan,
secreia y was not responsible for it,
yet the people believe and know
that { flee has been so managed as
to cost the people too much for the
amount of labor pei formed. The
lesson is plainly taught that the
people expect wo,k done for tn,
public for the same prices as done
for a private individual no more
There are plenty of book keepers
in Waco WHO do much more worl
for less pay than is done in TIT
{ flee of city secretary. We hop
the city council and the newly
elected city secretary will "get thu
idea
s. The city tax collector ego
the idea") very early in the canv ASS
by hearing certain matters in tim'
to explain without "aflisvits.
The apologies aud explanation wer'
accepted by the people, and ont
more term was given "to do better
in," showing great heart of liberia
charity as taught by the people.
9. The city treasurer reelected
, and the lessons taught. ga frien
, in need is a friend indeed Tn
present city treasurer was a frier,
to Waco when Sin need" Will,
the defeated candidate might has'
done the same things, yet he die
not. The competency or incom
potency or honesty or reliability @
either candidate, was not q1ef
ton before the people. Whe'
r Observer" wrote his insinuatin,
article and Il know not nor car
4 not who it wss) 80 far as it re
Elected upon the credit of eithe
candidate, like all anonymou
writings in our newspapers, wa
out of taste and the people said sc