The daily sentinel., 1909-11-01
WE Do NOT WANT A LOP-
SIDED MAYOR, FOR OUR CITY
Interesting Thoughtful
Junction Should Mayor
and Moral Prosperity of the Community Not Standing for
o OF the
THAT FACTIONS BE FORGOT TEN IN THE VOTING TOMORROW
Editor Sentinel

Editor Sentinel:
Now that the noise and clamor of
battle must give place to thoughtful
consideration of the city's real inter-
est in the selection of mayor for
four years, 1t behooves us. as a sensi-
BILE. rather than riotous people. TO
take council together in all serious
ness.
Come let us reason together-no-
as partisans bent upon the scheme of
rule or ruin" not as factions will
Ing to sacrifice the public good sim
ply to crafty our personal vanity,
but as loyal citizens willing to sacri-
flee some of our personal likes and
dislikes' that the general good may
be advanced as far as possible under
existing conditions, no matter wheth-
er we consider the conditions happy
or unhappy.
We cannot build a city withou.
taking into consideration it's moral
surroundings: its citizenship must
have respect for law. We cannot
build city without reckoning with
its material growth. Morals alone
no matter whose code OF ethics we
adopted, will not bring the desired
result money alone is like "brick
without straw"-its structures will
topple over unless good citizenship
stands behind IL.
This proposition we need to con
slider and weigh in the selection of
our city administration. and in the
proper weighing we can find the
solving of the problem Whom shall
we vote for for mayor?
WE DO NOT WANT A LOP-SIDED
MAYOR.-A man who will sacrifice
the moral interest for the material:
nor do we want man who will sac
rifice the material that his particu-
lar code OF morals may shine We
need man who will give due weight
to both.
If We are to send a man on an i'm
portant business mission. we do not
ask if he is a member of this or that
church; but we do want to know
that he is honest, capable and ener-
getic, and that he will be faithful to
our city. In selecting man for may
or-the man to manage the affairs
not of any individual but of the en-
tire eity-the same rule should apply
Is he honest? Is he capable? VIII
he be faithful to the laws?
WE HAVE THAT MAN IN ED M
SLOCOMB.
He is an original charter man, and
should meet every demand of the
most ardent charterist, yet he is so
well balanced that he will not make
the charter and its theories a hobby
to the neglect of weightier matters
should they arise.
He is an original prohibitionist,
and Is respected by all factions as
such, and his temperance convictions
are not of modern growth to fit, de-
mands that promised office.
His convictions and his actions, on
the two points of charter and prohi-
bition ought to satisfy this faction:
and yet we all know that he will not
take his orders from the daddy of
the charter" or wait for instructions
from preachers" in prohibition en-
forcement. He wears no mans col
lar. and this fact alone should make
him. in measure, satisfactory to the
so-called anti-church element He
will "hew to the line. let the chips
fall where they may" in these two
matters, and because of these ster-
ling qualities of the man he would
have the respect o: both.
He has the confidence of the busi-
ness men of the city, and is not SO