News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-07-19

which netted him about $4,000, per
year, and 10 the duties of which office,
be has never given even one tenth of
his time. The Mayor, Hon. John
Weaver has gained full mastery of
the situat ton. He has appointed
an advisory board, of which Hon.
John q. Converse, head of the great
Baldwin Locomotive Works, and a
native of Vermont, is the head. Poll
tics are, so far, eliminated from the
problem of reform and reconstruc-
ton. The garg and gang power is
absolutely undone. The police and
fire depart are taken out of
politics. Investigations are going
steadily forward as to padded cleo
ton lists, with the astounding result
In many divisions, showing fully half
of the names entered to be fraudulent.
New department heads have been ap-
pointed; hundreds OF super fious, use
less place holders have been turned
out. The Mayor has resolutely re-
fused all compromise or place making
patch ups, and goes steadily on. Ar
rests have been made and more will
follow in connection with vast frauds
in city contracts, in whichit is already
shown that the leaders of the old Or
ganizatlon, including it's head front,
Durham, were directly interested.
The police force and City Hall
guards, etc., are being purged and sew
eral men with pretty dark criminal
records are welded out. All work on
special contracts, like alteration
plants, boulevards, etc, has been
halted, pending investigation now
going on. Several have been sent to
prison for election frauds and many
more will follow.
In the wreck that las come TO the
old order of things and thesupposed-
ly impregnable com bination of spoils-
men, there is no more conspicuous fig.
ure in the drift wood left high and
exceedingly dry, than .. s. Senator
Boies Penrose. It is a generally ac-
cepted fact that the gong has sound.
ed and the curtain will soon fall on
bis questionable career 1t is equal.
~ true that all the ubiquitous plan
ming for all the gas deal and fran
chise grab acts and all the question
able political methods here and at
the State Capital as well, would, il |
truthfulIy recorded, give as their |
birthplace the headquarters of Israel |
W. Durham or BOies Penrose.
1t will be very easy to pass per-
sonal registration bill, which was de-
feated by the gang. This bill would
bring out every qualified voter to
personally register in his voting pre-.
cinct, and be big damper on the
bogus enrolment.
Weaver has taken the helm and
has the confidence OF the people,
Some of the blue. bloods regret to
see the elimination of their "organi-
zation," which masqueraded, as the
regular Republican party in order to
it's unholy ends, and are
now crying aloud for, and promising
much in the line of reform within
the party" and the future must work
over the political status ofthe reform
alton. But this aspect OF the case
is not bothering Weaver or the COM
mon people very much at present.
The Mayor, replying to all propost-
tons as to fix up, declares he does
not and will not recognize any politi-
cal leader or boss, that the people
shall name their leaders and that no
trade or promises, as to place or can
didate, in which the people are left
out, will go, from now on, and all the
people say, bully for Weaver" But
the popularity that is his, will not
take him off his feet, or will not make
him President, for he is of foreign
birth, and probably there aren'ttools
enough to chip in and buy him
house.
All the same, through his efforts
by the people-the death |
knell has been sounded for "boss
rule" and graft in this, one OF the
ohOsf aiH;o~ @f h. Ron