Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1904-04-21
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, APRIL 81. 1903
The Candidates for the Council.

Both parties have made creditable
nominations for the council. which is
a comforting thought for the Phoenix
taxpayer. This comfort is modified
however, in the case of the democratic
nominees, by the fact that no matter
how upright personally democratic
councilman may be, he must be man
of extraordinary stamina to withstand
- the demands of the local democratic
machine. And what this machine has
done to the people who pay the taxes
of this city will not be forgotten right
away.
Phoenix is republican by safe ma
tority when the voters are divided on
political issues and as it seems impos-
sible to avoid making municipal
campaign on party lines. it is the man
tfest duty of republicans to vote for
the republican candidates when the re-
publican party has nominated good
tnen. This year the nominations are
exceptionally good. Mr.. R. H. Greene,
the republican candidate in the second
ward. and Mr.. Clinton Lauver, the re-
publican candidate in the Fourth ward,
are representative citizens in every
way Each of them is broad minded
and intelligent, and each of them has
had a wide business experience. The
uHe members of the city council are
the business managers for the city,
. nO1l q nd
disbursement of eighty thousand dol
lara a year. Mr.. Greene and Mr.. Lau-
yer are such men as a private corpor-
alton would employ for the duties of
this character, and that is the best
test of their qualifications.
It is necessary for the welfare of the
city that these men be elected 1t is
necessary for the city to remain under
republican control. If any citizen of
short memory doubts the correctness
of this dictum, he has only to compare
present conditions with the conditions
which existed under democratic al.
ministrations. We have had but
year of republican rule after a period
of misrule and extravaganza under de-
mocratic control, and the improvement
is so great that no citizen free from
bias would desire 10 take q backward
step. There is no more graft. There
is no more deficit in city funds. Ex-
penditures do not exceed the income.
A steadily increasing floating debt is
not one of the features of the present
administration. Neither is a stuffed
payroll to be found under the present
city government. Taxpayers do not see
great gangs of men, hoboes bossed by
city officials, going through a pretense
of working on the streets while await
ing for election day in order to vote
for city ring. For this reason ficti-
tious and fraudulent street work" is
not costing the city several thousand
dollars; it is not costing the city a
cent. There is nothing of the kind.
u would not be tolerated by the Off
etsls now in control.
Nor will anything of the kind be seen
between now and election day. There
b no fraudulent republican registra-
ttOa going on for the benefit of the
city government. There is no repub-
IicsR colonization of fraudulent voters
In the wards which are to elect coun-
eilmen. Were these things necessary
to the election of Greene and Lauver,
they would not be elected. There was
an uprising of the people last spring
to suppress graft, and the reform
movement then started has lost none
Of its force. There is still deter
mination to protect the city treasury
from padded payrolls. There is still
a determination to protect the city
treasury from loOting at the hands
Of a rapacious political organization.
There is still a determination to keep
politics out of the fire department
There is still Il determination to pro-
tect all city employees from monthly as
sessments for the benefit of a political
organization or for anything else.
There is still a determination to make
the city's income equal to it's outgo
And the republicans will insist upon
making their campaign on these lines.