Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-19

W is'NO eile power to appoint all commissions, such as the police. fire school and charity boards, police jus tloes, eonstables and the like. As far as possible the commissioners sbouId be single headed, or if that be imnos- slble, the mayor should be ex-oficio q member of all these commissions. and have the deciding vote. This will aI,- ply especially to the board of estimate and apportionment. Over the police the mayor should have absolute control so as to prevent oppression or black mali. Under this scheme of govern. ment the public expenditures could be held to the lowest limit, and if they were not the mayor could be held di- reetly responsible to his constituents and be compelled to answer to them when he would again come up for their snffrages. He could in no way shirk or avoid the issue
 Personally I believe in the widest lib- erty being accorded to the citizen. but If there are laws in the statute book. no matter how obnoxoius, they should be enforced until relief can be afforded. The best way to repeal an arbitrary law is to enforce it.
 By liberty do not mean license. I believe, for example, that man should be privileged to enjoy Sunday, the only holiday go men out of 100 have in week, according to his own bent. He should be allowed to go to church or contrary, just as he pleases. He should be permitted to take himself or family to a picnic excursion, and take his beer or toddy the same as Warner Miller or Teddy Roosevelt do at their clubs. I believe that respectable sa. looms should be permitted to keep open on Sunday after church hours and stay open until one a. m. on Monday, the same as week days. A saloon keeper who would sell liquor to drunken man or a minor should have his license broken. IntoXieation should be checked on Sunday.
 I believe in giving honest sport full play. Boxing, with restrictions, should be permitted the same as football, golf tennis, rowing or horse racing. Two trained athletes should not be prevent ed from displaying their skill with big fiye-ounee gloves by the silly cry of people who know nothing about the game.
 I further believe that if speculation, of gambling. or call it what you will is legal in the country, or a certain part of a city. it is legal in every part of q city, with few exceptions, such as the proximity of schoolhouses or churches. For example, if man can bet at the raeetraels, l don't see whJ he can't bet on horse in hotel cafe or a pool room in the city. If man futures, in Wall street buys grain, say. for a fall in price, in other words bets that the present price will godown. I don't see why he can't bet in 2 pool room up town that Mckinley won | be election in November, or that our Eng fish friends won't whallop Yale at Henley in July.
 If speculation or gambling is toler- ated in one place it should be permitted ill another. With this restriction. however, no minor or man of small means and large family should be al lowed to place bet of any kind. If the pool room keeper or other gambler take their money he should be com peIled to give it back, whether they win or lose. That would be punishment enough for the first offense. If he re- peat it drive him out of the town.
 I believe in repressing vice in every possible form There are some evils. however, which cannot be entirely erad- icated, Dr. Parl1hurst to the contrary notwithstanding. Principal among these is the social evil.
 I spoke about extending to the citi- zen the widest liberty, I propose to exercise a freeman's right just now my self. I have been treated outrageously by so-called democratic convention in this state I am the mayor of Long Is- land City, and the recognized democrat ic leader in Queens county. Myself and lieutenants were refused seats in that convention, and a small lot of kickers given the seats which belonged to us, To show the leaders of that state con yention that freemen cannot be trodden upon I propose to run for governor of New York this fall and will nominate full state ticket Twill be nominated by petition All that is needed is 3,o60 sig natures to that petition, and I can get 5000 in Long Island City alone. l will be indorsed by the Shepherd democracy of Brooklyn, who elected William J. Gaynor, supreme court justice, and Charles A. sehieren, mayor of Brook lyn. Yet their seats were given in the state convention to Hugh Mclaughlin and his lieutenants whom they defeated at the polls the year previously. They feel just as bitter as do Besides these I will have the independent democracy of New York, who are opposed to Tam many methods, at my back All told l will have 25,000 or more names signed to my petition for nomination.
 If I was ever elected governor would run the state on the same principles as I would a city, the greatest good for the
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