The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-12

lne state OF asnlngton, was al oA,,
~er In the Spanlsn-Amerlcan war an
was the canolla.e onereu ny the orll.
ocracy of the PACING coast Tor la
wee presidency In 1870. Subsequent.
~ Colonel Lewis moved to Chicago ~
practice his profession OF the law.
was in the story being printed in pa
pers opposing municipal ownership 10
he effect tLat Mayor Dunno na4
abandoned mis- original scheme OF
municipal ownership for some plan OF
granting a qualified franchise to a
private company. He said:
Il have seen those charges floating
about, but for anyone to say tina,
Dunno has in any wise abandoned the
issue upon which he was elected may
or of Chicago is hardly less than a
SANDER. From some sources this false
charge is made igporantly, from OH
ers deliberately.
1T can truthfully be said that if a
man could have been more intense
han was Judge Dunno in the cam
paign, he is that now. His plan OF
action does not in the slightest de-
gree modify or surrender any of the
professions or promises he made upon
the stump. He is only taking sucn
methods to accomplish the purpose
as the conditions around him make
necessary, and the efforts of the op-
position compel.
Il make bold to prophesy that be-
fore the end of the year he will nave
in operation the only completely mu-
nicipalized street railway in the Unit
ed States of America. Thus Chicago
will, as in many other things, set the
advance pace for the nation to fol-
low
What is there in the rumor that
the judge would like a presidential
nomination."
Il am quite sure that this talk of
presidential nomination, however sim
cere, on the part of the friends of the
mayor, does not meet the approval Of
Judge Dunno He has started upon a
great work for the sake of the prin-
ciple involved, and it is not agreeable
o him to have the impression created
hat he is being stimulated by the
nope of political preferment, or that
ne is leading a reform movement in
government with the selfish object in
view of elevation to higher office as
lis reward. This narrows the con-
ception of the patriotic duty ne has
undertaken in behalf of the national
citizenship of America and good mu-
licipal government in the United
States"
What kind of men are his chief Of
police and commissioner of public
works? We hear a good deal about
hem over here"
The new chief of police is a man
'emarkably endowed with the quail
lies of discipline and organization.
He is more rapidly Kidding the city
ing quiet and peace to all it's sur
roundings tnan was even hoped
Oy his strongest adherents. AS to the
commissioner of public works, who
mas in hand much of the public work
and improvement conducted along the
reform ideas of the city, he is Joseph
Medill Patterson, grandson and son
Of the editor and owner respective
y of the Chicago Tribune He has
been a member Of the legislature, nav
ing distinguished himself as an in
dependent advocate of beneficial
measures to the state. 1 think it is
no exaggeration to say that for orig
inality, courage and prudent sagacity
Mr.. Patterson is not excelled by any
man of his years in the United
States.
The whole administration of May
Or Dunno, if l may be permitted to
say it, is, in my opinion being sustain
ID in all it's departments by mos;
conscientious and respectable order of
nigh ability"
Colonel Lewis is now at Newport
where he will take a little recreation
1t the cottage Of friends, returning
% Chicago in about a week or ten
lays.