The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-11-02

pay for them until compelled to by
law. need repairs and the men in office
have never made them or compelled
anyone else to make them. For about
two years they have been trying to
get the repairs done, and never sue.
ceeded. II they had any get-up-and-
get, as they call it, or regard for pub
lie good, about them, they would have
had it done months ago. Our cutters
reek with filth, the alleys smell to
high heaven, the streets are filled with
holes and powders, and no one seems
to care except those who can't help
themselves. The crowd in office is
utterly obiivious to public demand,
censure or disgust. 1t is there, and
neither abuse, argument, or persuasion
can move it, or avail the people
anything. .-.
There is not man of any intelli.
gence in Paducah, we believe, who
does not know that the present officials
have forced on us the two highest
tax rates ever heard of-$l.S5 and
&1.65, and that all the money collected
in the past two years, something near
$3.50, 900, has been gobbled up in sol.
aries and other CRAFTS. That there is
not single improvement to show for
il, and that the only improvement pro-
vided by the present administration is
several blocks of streets that took six
months or more Of their buugling
methods to let the contract for, and
which are not yet built, and half
of which the property owners pay
for. The public knows that out
side of the light plant and sewerage
system every public convenience
and utility in Paduoah was estab-
lished and hes been operated by
private capital The Democrats have
been In offioe constantly since Paducah
became . city of any size, with the
exception Of two years when the Bust.
ness Mems council was let in long
enough to construct sanitary sewer
sgs system. something the. people
would never have had without . Re-
publican council, and the Democrats are
for Psducah's lack Of i'm.
The present mayor ve-
toed the lowest tax rates the city ever
had. those made BY the Republican
council. Only few months ago some
Of our Democratic officials backed, it
10 alleged, BY the present mayor, at
tempted to force Paduoah back into
the third class in order that they could
enjoy two years more at the public
teat, and after being defeated at every
turn. they afterwards had the gall to
60 before the council and ask the city
to pay their lawyers bill Do not the
people, especially those on the south
side. remember when the present
mayor vetoed the ordinance to extend
water mains into Mechanicsburg, and
soon afterwards vetoed the sanitary
sewerage ordinance?
And further, is there any intelligent
voter in Paducah who does not fully |
that the gang in Office has
been spending most Of its time playing |
politics, and that men who play poll
les have no time 10 give the public
service?
1t seems to us that the people of Pa
iucah are thoroughly aware of the
conditions which prevail and of the
,vils that beset them. II they prefer
20 vote for the crowd in office-the
crowd that forced OF the two highest
TAX rates and squandered $3.50, 0c0 in
TWO years-they have that privilege.
They will be voting against their own
which is something the con-
,titution guarantees them the sight to
DO if they choose. They can look
around them and see what sort of a
city they have SO far rs modern con-
veniences and Improvements are con-
cerned, and they know we'll enough
who is responsible for it. If they
want to keep it up,-high taxes, money
squeezed from the tax payer and
wasted in salaries and other CRAFTS,
and connivance at lawlessness to gain
the support of certain elements in the
anproaching election, they will 90 to