The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-08-11
EYES OPENED TO
THE REAL TRUTH
Promise of Erasure of All
Party Lines Not TO Be
Carried Out.
DEMOCRACY HOLDS SWAY
LOCAL REPUBLICAN WHO WAS
LURED INTO THE SCHEME SAYS
VACCINATED.

Editor Palladium-TO begin with, |
wish to open my heart and say that
was numbered among the many Re
publicans who jumped the track and
assisted in the overthrow of the Re
publican administration and the con-
sequent election of DR.. Richard Schil-
linger as mayor of Richmond | was
lured into the jumping business by
persuasive arguments to the effect
that in municipal affairs there should
be no line drawn between the partiesj
that every citizen, Democrat or Re
publican, should stand for good gov
eminent and let parties appeal in
State and National campaigns, but not
to permit their influence to have
weight in little city campaign" 1t
was held out to me, and doubtless to
hundreds Of other Republicans, that
though the DemOcratic' candidate was
a party man, he would be elected by
the voters irrespective Of party and
that in consequence he would be given
a city administration free from parti-
san bias. 1t sounded good. | look
ed over my right shoulder and found
my neighbor there thinking the same
way. On the left such feeling
again was in evidence.
| voted for DR.. Schillinger. My
vote and those of hundreds of other
Republicans elected him mayor. |
expected. and so did others who did
the same thing that | did, that when
the new mayor assumed control we
would have an example of modern re-
form gOvernment-that there would
be no party lines drawn and that Re
publicans as we'll as Democrats
would be chosen indiscriminately, in
so far as their political Creeds count
ed.
If any man can point out to me
wherein the incoming administration
is to be anything but premeditated,
simOn-pure, rock-ribbed, dyed-in-the-
wool Democracy. | wish he would do
it right now. Every board is domi-
mated by Democrats, the one Republic
can on each being named because
the law requires it. Two other Re
publicans were selected to fill offices
ocrat in Richmond who has fitted him
I'self for Il career as a civil engineer?
Never heard of one did you? That's
the reason that Fred Charles, a Re-
publican is retained. There was
nothing else to be done. Then there
has been a Republican physician Sc
Nectcd for health officer as a worthy
| successor to DR.. Davis. Well and
good. But is there Democratic
praCticing physician in Richmond
! No. Well then that accounts for
this appointment. If the mayor elect
/ had desired to show he was deeply APP
preciative of the Republican votes
/ that elected him and desired to fulfill
/ the promises of some of the men who
worked for his victory, he might have
alternated the offices between the
two parties, However, I have no
complaint TO make. have learned
the lesson that despite the theories
hat are beautiful to listen to, that
party feeling exists even in municipal
affairs, When you elect 4 Democrat
with Republican votes, the victor pays
his debt To the members of his own
party. Its natural. But no more re
form on such lines for me. I've
been vaccinated politically and De
moCracy will never take" on me
again. | believe. also, that there are
others. \ PERFORMER"