Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-03-31
1EOPLE'SPROGRES-
SIVE TICKET
|tands for a Clean City Gov
eminent.

registration books in the city wards
wall close. and any one who has failed
to register by that time will not be
permitted to vote at the election
which is held on April 6, and every
citizen and business man should see
to 1t that he not only registers, but
that his friends are registered before
that time, and then cast his own vote
on election day, and see to it that his
friends cast theirs. Every citizen and
business man should register, and
then cast his vote, because probably
never before in the history of the
city has there been a more important
election-never an election in which
more Is Involved for the city as
whole. The issues are important be.
cause they involve the growth and
prosperity Of the town-its future
welfare In general, and in casting
your ballot you will determine whe-
Their Occur d'Alene is to remain in a
state Of stagnation or grow and pro-
gress until 1t is surpassed by no
other city in the whole state.
Progress or Stagnation.
There are two tickets in the field,
and one of them represents progress
One was nominated In a convention
dominated and ruled by a political
machine that has controlled the past
administration, and is styled as the
Citizens ticket, but better known as
the Dollar-White ticket. The ticket
was launched for the purpose of de-
feating the Hamilton ticket-the
ticket nominated by the people and
which is knwOn as the Peoples Pro-
gressive / improve m n ticket
launched for the purpose of giving
the same old ring control of city af-
fairs and keeping the treasury where
It Is at present. The ticket is headed
by H. H. Hubbard, and through their
platform promise much-in fact ev-
erything under the sun whether pos
sible or not. Those promises, If the
past can serve as any guide to the fu-
ture, will be easily broken. The same
ring that Is back of this ticket con-
trolled the present administration,
and in the campaign at which it was
elected the candidates promised the
people everything, and they gave
them an administration of general
stagnation, and lavish and extrava-
CANT expenditures of the peoples
money-gave them no improvements
nothing that built up the city, but
instead high taxes and an empty
treasury. That is what the men now
back of the so-styled Citizens ticket
have done for the people of Occur d..
Alene in the past, and though they
promise much now-more than ever
before the people have little or nc
reason to expect that any of these
promises will be kept. but every resa.
on to believe that, as In the past, they
will be broken, and the peoples
rights trampled upon, and their voice
ignored.
Slogan OF Peoples Ticket.
i General Improvement and progress
siveness is the slogan of the Peoples
Progressive Improvement ticket. Ii
candidates come before the people
unfettered to any political ring Of
clique, but free to discharge the du
ties OF their offiees II elected-to la
Dor for the general good, bettermen'
and advancement OF Occur d'Alen'
and its people. The candidates OF
that ticket say to the people, we be
lieve in the municipal ownership o.
an adequate water system-believ'
in It's installation In a business-lik'
and systematic manner; they say Il
the people-We believe In the impair
tial and judicious improvement of tn
streets and sidewalks. not partial ant
injudicious as has been the cas-
where any improvements whateve
have been made under the past ad
mintstration; a suitable maintenance,
: OF the public library. and they ar
its friends, every one Of them; be
lieve in the protection and legal AM
: careful expenditure of the publ
/ funds; believe in the appointment o
: competent and faithful officers, ant
: prOmptness and efficiency in publ
: once; believe in the publication o
I omcial reports IS required by law
and in the enforcement Of law an
order. with ample police protection