The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-22
THEY HAVE ALL
A CHANCE TO GO
THE VOICE OF THE EVENING
POST, AS EXEMPL1FIED
IN PROOF.

Under the caption "They Can All
Go to He'll the Louisville Post pass
es this out:
I'VE have already referred to the
appointment as mayor of Louisville,
Ky, of Mr. Robert w. Bingham, for
merly of North Carolina, after an
election in the city had been declared
a nullity by the supreme court for
fragrant and open frauds in the cleo
ton. Previously Mr.. Bingham, as
county attorney, had laid down the
law to the keepers of low-class dives
and saloons as to violation of the
Sunday laws and had not hesitated to
proceed boldly against the owners of
twenty of them who defied his warn
ing. The saloons and dives had the
sympathy of the city administration,
and the issue was drawn in the cleo
ton, which the supreme court set
aside. Later, when appointed mayor
Mr.. Bingham proceeded with charac-
teristic energy to enforce the law, to
| dismiss city officials out of sympathy
with the better element of law-abid
ing citizens. and, generally, to make
hard the path of the divekeeper, the
speak-easy, the gambler and the traf
| ticker in vice. Naturally, when an
other election is impending, it is
found that the issue between the two
| theories of the law-respecting and the
| 'wide-open' government is more
clearly drawn and the fight against
Mr.. Bingham is as bitter on the one
hand is it is enthusiastically in his
favor on the other.
In this situation the character of
the fight may be gagged by dispatch
sent out from Louisville to this eff
feet:
=. Six words, They can all go to
HI coming from a democratic
mayor, as applied to 500 democrats,
many of them prominent and leading
citizens of Louisville. have been ring
ing in the ears of thousands of regu
lar democrats of the Fifth congress
sional district today. Former Mayor
Charles F. Granger declares these
were the words uttered by Mayor Ro-
bert W. Bingham about the demo-
Gratis who met in mass convention on
Friday to discuss the best plan for
nominating a ticket of city and coun
ty officers
And the interesting part of the
story is that it does not appear that
Mayor Bingham denies using the ex-
preston attributed to him. The ex-
PLANTATION of his friends. however, is
one that will approve itself as the true
one to all who know Mayor Bingham,
cause the recording angel to drop a
tear and blot it out. They say, in
the first place, that there was no con-
vention and that the democrats
were three or four hundred barkeep-
ers. gamblers, their touts and friends,
who are enlisted in the fight against
the man who interfered with their IL
legal business. Former Mayor Grain
ger, referring to these men who had
met and Kissed Mayor Bingham, is
stated to have said to the latter:
These are the men that can elect
you. And it was to this that Mayor
b.nghm replied: Those men can go
to hell
without entering any admission
of record as to the propriety of the
expression itself, we feel sure that
the people of North Carolina gener-
ally will admire the spirit that
prompted it, and that, if anything
could do SO. the spirit so expressed
will add deeped tone to their hope
for Mayor Bingham success. Wheth-
err or not he really said that they
might all go to hell is. in the larg-
err way, immaterial. The point is
that, at the moment of suggested
compromise with vice and thuggery,
the mayor lost no time registering
his decision-and putting it strong.
THE convention evidently UNDER