The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-05
SMALL MAYOR WEAVER

MAYOR WEAVER of Philadelphia
IVA is great disappointment to
many of his constituents. Though he
was nominated by the unspeakably
corrupt Republican machine and elect
ed through the efforts of Senator's
Quay and Penrose. Mayor Weaver at
the beginning Of his official career
manifested some symptoms of indie
pendcuce. He declared, for instance.
that he would do everything I'm his
power to put an end 10 the fraudulent
voting openly practiced at every Phil
sdelphia election, and he promised
other reforms. Not only has he failed
to accomplish anything along these
lines, but he is proving himself q
mighty small man.
A few days ago the mayor had oc-
casion to use one of the nickeI-in-the-
slot telephones i'm The city hall He
had no nickel, and he says he dropped
i'm a dime. The telephone operator
failed to hear him drop any coin what
ever and, i'm obedience TO the COM
pauy's regulations she refused TO con-
meet him with the number he de-
sired. This Notwithstanding the fact
that he announced to her in loud and
I boisterous tones that he was the may
on of Philadelphia The following day
the mayor ordered the telephone COM
pany 10 remove ali its phones from the
city hall
/ Later however, he changed his mind
OH this point and demanded the dis
( charge of the operator who had re-.
I fused to be awed. The operator was
discharged. Now that may be i'm keep
/ ing with the dignity of the office of
mayor of Philadelphia. but we don't
believe great many citizens of Phil
adelphia on of the country think so.
( Mayor Weaver was i'm mighty small
/ business when he insisted on the dis
charge of that young woman but his
/ act shows that the Philadelphia gang
/ was not mapping when ii selected him
as it's mayoralty candidate.
/ And. after ALL Mayor Weaver has
/ most illUstrious precedent. Did not
/ President Roosevelt bring about the
/ discharge of che society editor of a
/ washington newspaper because she
I did not describe the society. events at
+ the White House i'm accordance with
+ the Roosevelt uotion2 With such am
/ example as that staring him ia the
( face, as it were. we don't know that
/ Weaver is SO much to be blamed for
/ making trouble for a telephone girl
/ However we had little sunshine
/ yesterday. Let US hope for the best.
/ Il begins to- look as if the local base
/ BAN management might have 10 stretch
canvas over the Walker pasture.
Japanese bonds are going up. Rus
( sian bonds are going down. The same
may DE said of the prospects of the re-
1 spective countries for winning the war.
/ General Zassalitch, we are informed.
/ had orders to avoid d general engage
meut with the japanese. II this is true
/ he probably wishes now he had obeyed
/ orders.
/ If the tramp who was shut up in
/ carload of lemons for seven days gets
/ well. anybody can make him sick again
/ by suggesting that a lemonade would
/ bee a so0d thing for him
/ If there isn't q chicken famine around
/ Los Angeles just nov lot of joke
/ Smiths never did know what they were
i talking about Los Angeles is jammed
! fun Of Methodist ministers.
/ Keutucky's delegation TO the Repub-
I ucau national convention includes a
+ negro. 40 wonder The good people
+ down there WON'T let their children play
\ with the children Of Republicans.
/ The credit of the city of New York
/ does not seem 10 have been impaired
/ by the Democratic victory there last
faH Its bond issue of S37,000.000 was
I oversubscribed seven times
The Young Mems Republication
/ c. Fremont Republican, Young Mems
Republican club seems 10 be on the
rocks. Probably ms members have at
/ last realized that there won't be
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