Weekly journal-miner., 1909-01-06
FOR LIVE GOVERNMENT.

Tnere are many ways of governing a city but two are most conspicuous, one to let 1t run itself of it's own in. ertia as a community and the other to have an efficient, energetic corps of officers driving 1t along to prosperity.
 Of the first method of city govern. ment Prescott knows everything. In fact, not within the recollection of the eldest inhabitsnt has it known any. thing else. it has suffered the third degree of slothful, careless municipal government. The officers who have directed its affairs have seldom put one ounce of effort into the administration beyond what the impinge of circum. stances forced from them.
 The citizens of Prescott need no academic arguments to bring them to this belief. A large group of them al ready have it. The birth of the Re. publican municipal ticket sprang from tho very belief of these citizens. Bu. others not actively allied with this new movement are of the same thought and they have the conviction arisen from scores of incidents and examples of our present city government. or lack of government. None of You need SEQ far to discover material arguments against our present regime, if anything co inactive can be called a regime. You Ind them at your stseet crossing, in the streets; they are thrown hagrantly sn your face if you have occasion to do business with the city. In short, the city of Prescott is like a saip with crew serving no other purpose than ballast.
 What has the present administra. ton from the minute of its inception done to move Prescott along to it's proper position among the municipali ties of Arizonai What has if done 10 advance Prescott in any directioni Echo of Yavapai's hills answers vo. ciferous "Nothing." So far as the administration of this city is concern. ed, Prescott today would not be on the map. Where other Arizona cities have shown municipal spirit and reached out 10 bring part of the world to it, the men who have had the destiny of this city in charge have only indifer. ently looked after the most crying needs of the city. Tn short, we had | never had in Prescott corps of of l heers that has given any thought | (much less action) to the welfare of | the city 1t has never moved the com munity one inch forward.
 Is 1t not time to break loose from this slotbful aggregation and place men at the head of our musicipal af. fairs who do things' Prescott has come to point where to wallow along in idle antiquity is fatal. The pro- gressivc element of this town is sick of having the town stagger drowsily along beneath corps of officers that begrudgc the minutes they spend in the present meagcr management of city af fairs.
 We must have live corps of munic. ipal officers. The life of the city dc. mands it. We must have men man aging our affairs who to begin have proper ideas of progress and next the energy to put them in practice.
 Can we hope for this from the SO. called "Citizen' Tieketl" The one excuse it offers for existence is if is non partisan. While we have n mat ter'of'faet doubt of the genuineness of this claim, nevertheless we will grant its -partisanship for what ir is worth. But what further does it offer Prescott as a cityl Nothing but tho continuance in office of the same old of "do.nothings.n -
 Your so-called "Citizcn's Ticketn has no platform. It stands for noth. ra. It is pledged to notning. It n Rht very well print huge cipher at , he head of it's ticket and ask the z Prescott voter to stamp it in the cen or. 1
 fired of this zero administration hc progressive element of this city 1 as pat into the field group of men , 'ho will put dynamic force into the - $