The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-11-02
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES
Men of Sterling Worth anc
Should Receive the Votes of
our People.

| For the hrSt time in more than
a score of years the people have
a chance to vote for a whole tic
ket for councilmen and mayor,
composed of solid business men.
For many years business men
have refused the positions be-
cause they did not think they
could afford to take them.
When the Republicans met in
convention they decided that
business men must take the nom-
inations, that neither the city nor
its business could afford any
longer to have any but substan-
tial business men for mayor and
councilmen.
They selected a ticket which
is acknowledged by men of all
parties to be one of the best that
could have been made in the city.
Mr.. earn, the candidate for
mayor is level-headed, progress
Sive, substantial business man
who will be a power during the
next four years in bringing to
Plymouth the large manufac-
turing establishments it needs to
make it one of the foremost cities
in the state.
The Democratic organ thinks
Mr.. earn should not be elected
because he is not a lawyer, but
every citizen who will go back
in memory to the mayors under
whose administration Plymouth
prospered most and increased
most in wealth and population,
will find that those mayors were
not lawyers.
Take for instance the two
terms of Joseph Swindell and the
term of DIR. Wilson, one a Re-
publican the other a Democrat,
and you will find that there are
many reasons why the mayor of
Plymouth should not be a law
yer.
The mayor of Plymouth is not
a police magistrate, he does not
try cases in any court, and the
legal adviser of the city is the
city attorney proposed bv the
mayor and confirmed by the
council. If the mayor is a lawyer
and dominates the city council as
Mayor Logan dominates the
present council, he will select an
attorney whom he can control,
and then having the appointment
| of city marshal he becomes the
whole thing to very much
greater extent than Logan now
is.
Every good lawyer and sensi-
bic business man in the city
knows this. They know that the
present councilmen who are can
didates for reelection, are simp-
ly wax in the hands of Logan
and if he is reelected and they
are reelected Logan will be the
city government.
Some Democrats have said
Logan cannot control Adam
Wise. Suppose he can't, what
difference does it make when he
has four other councilmen and
all other city officers under his
control.
Adam Wise says he docs not
want the office of councilman at
large. He understands as we'll
as anybody else that with Logan
as mayor and a Democratic ma
jority in the council he would be
a nonentity.
But the Republicans have two
candidates for councilmen at
large who are among the best
men in the city. Lucius Tanner
and Frank H. Jacox are men of
sound judgment, men of intelli-
gence, men who will not be con-
trolled by the mayor or by rings
or cliques, but will carefully
weigh all matters presented. Ev-
cry voter regardless of party can
go to the polls and vote for them
feeling that he is voting for the
best interests of the city.
Republicans are proud of their
candidates in the three wards. In
the first ward we have Harry E.
Buck, a young energetic, busi-
ness man, who would be hard to
match for councilman; born in
Plymouth, he understands its
every need and would bend all
his energies to make it one of the
best cities in the state. He de-
serves the support of every yot-
er in his ward.
Our candidate in the second
ward is ]. D. Mccoy, proprietor
of the steam laundry, a genial,
approachable 5-oung business
man who has done much for
Plymouth and will do much
more if elected councilman.
Democrats say "Mac" is hard to
match. He ought to be elected
.by at least 100 majority.
/ Another young business man
| is our candidate in the third