The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-09
Wherein higgins Lays Down his Platform
for the Mayor Of Waco.

l. All lave shall be diligently en-.
forced without fear or favor, rich
or poor, sporting character, or any
other character.
9. All business for Waco shall be
done in a businesslike and legal
way; business for the public like
business for the individual.
8. District Waco and compel
wide.walks, such as each district
requires, beginning with the better
and more important business part
of town, and growing cheaper as
we 60 into the residence and rural
part of town; but a sidewalk should
be built in front of every lot in the
city of Waco. People who live in
town expect some advantages above
the couutry.
A. Police judge, chief.of police
and city attorney should be ap
pointed by the city council, leav.
ing these men as officers nothing to
do but to enforce the laws, instead
of hunting votes from one term to
the next. How many city attorneys
has Waco had who have not been
supplemented by outside lawyers at a
big expense to the city.
5. 1t is a sin and a shame to
license crime, but it is too iniquit-
Gus for expression for city to put
its seal of approval by the author
ity of the health officer of Waco TO
cave the inmates of the houses of
shame, advertising to the men of
Waco: You can break the laws of
decency and not be hurt; we prom
Use you this by authority of law
no danger here. Shame. Shame.
This law is too low down for decent
citizenship. There is said to be
only one other city in America so
low down in her laws, and that will
so far prostitute her authority as to
protect and encourage such shame
by the seal of approval, as is done
in Waco. We condemn the law and
the practice, and would forever
Danish them from out the city.
s. We should spend less money
and have fewer teachers in the
Central school, and more teachers
and more room in our ward schools,
which are the schools for the COM
mon people--the people for whom
free schools are intended.
7. Secure city park, a place
where the wage Garner and all peo-
pie may 60 to breathe the fresh air
away from their crowded, unshaded
homes. This is an imperative ne
cessity for the health and comfort
of our people.
S. Encourage and promote, by
rewards, the planting of 10000
shade trees along the streets of
Waco.
0. Sprinkle the streets as pub.
lie health and comfort measure.
10, Have as speedily as possible
a perfect sewerage system, that the
city can be clean as we'll as healthy;
besides the great convenience.
Health, comfort and protection
should be the first elements demand
ed by legislation.
IL. Have permanent eystem of
street paving, not boomerang, or
spasmodic, bat on clearly defined
policy such a. will give work to
our home laborers and wage earners.
II. Cut down the salary of that
city hall gang, who stay by the fire
in winter, and sit in the shade in
the summer time, and like the ILL
les of the field, toll not neither
do they spin, yet there is not tax
payer in all Waco arrayed like
these.
l3. Know all wants and needs OF
the city by personal visitation.
IA. Neither wink at crime nor
find fault with contractors, tax pay
ers or any other citizen; nor wink
at crime because it may secure q
vote; nor pet the reservation be-
cause of the same; but treat all in
a manly, legal, cold, business.like
way, such as business man who
succeeds would do business in his
hnaiuaos life