The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-03-26
| RINGING REVIEW
\ thp Issues Presented in
the City Campaign.
:. Laws That are Violated The Duty Of
Law and Order Voters.

To The NEWS IN lace Oh the
.;.taken attitude of certain of your
lilly contemporaries toward the
mining question of the suppression
a lswlessness in Waco, the persis.
,.ot and untiring efforts of The
,rvs in the cause of order and the
nforcement of the city ordinances,
md the uniform fairness and
nurtesy with which it has treated
,,uressions of opinion on this sub.
;,ct through its columns, entitle it
b be esteemed most highly az
nedium for the interchange of
IDEAS touching the question of our
t;,v government--what it is, and
,hst it should be.
In this spirit, the came which
minated my former communica.
lions in you valuable columns, and
Nib the special permission Of our
friends at the city hall, who hold
,Ece through the votes of the
people of Waco, and their consider
tie continuation of the polite and
purteous treatment and fair dis
elimination so emphatically and
seyously displayed in their former
Nlstion with your correspondent
shich he recalls with feelings of
ratitude and pleasure) l shouli
ike to say a word on subject
vhich, more or less intimately, con.
srns US all; the same which afore.
lime directed to your unworthy
onespondent the eyes-not OF the
gods on high Olympus, but the
aeilies of the city hall, and drew
down upon him from those reigning
potentates the overwhelming cour-
tesies and attention 40 winningly
sud irresistible vouchsafed; the
question which has been 80 eff &C.
tuslly covered by The News in it's
NNYed platform, expressing in the
words "E aforcement of the laws
I" they exist CT may be enacted"
Naturally, it is with fear and
trembling that | again approach the
subject of LAW and Order vs..
Rowdyism. " To have incurred the
displeasure of the gods and escaped
with no worse penalty than mud
bsth-.o have placed oneself with
IN reach of the dread arms of the
deadly &C opus and elude its clutch
should, perhaps, be suffi ,ient warn
ing not to tempt Fate by repeating
The indiscretion. Verify, their ire
ss terrible thing, and not to be
lightly evoked; and we're it not that
feel the sympathetic touch of pub.
lie sentiment l fear my courage
would perforce desert me at the
prospect of annihilation from the
crushing force of acute mentality
concentrated in the sacred precincts
The city hall
Since this question has evolved
',self from its original germlna|
character into fully developed and
natured platform, it may be con
csded to be subject of grave
moment and interest to the citizens
OF Waco. L, is now resolved into
,0e unequivocal question: IL the
AV'respecting portion of the com
@anlty to govern or be governed by
'aat portion which holds law anc
aecency in contempt? Dies Waco
aeslre to be reputed an educationa
'aa com mercisl center, an orderly
ald we'll administered city where
Tue restrictions which must bt
paced On criminality and license arr
sot prescribed merely as ridicule(
.Ofmalitles, and where the admins
ration of vigorous and impartia
justice upholds the mai esty of TIT
n sw and the dignity Of its officers
VI IS she contente0 with her presen
sporadic condition, which, to al
unbiased observer, exhibits itself q
wen q, beneath mediocrity?
;, mere is no doubt that much o
~, present rowdyism emanate
WI uvm certain i'll managed saloons
hmny are these saloons permitted t.
W conducted in a disorderly man
,,' .. This is the question whic
it:es at the root of the matter, au'
"M easily solved. Each salOo,