Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-04-02
d Democratic Aldermen Have so Far Failed
" Forfeit Money Was Returned to the Firms
We're Sixty-one Thousand Dollars Less Than
lCceSSfuI Contractors.
/. MADE TO
KEEP CAMPAIGN PLEDGES
ter Turning VitaIIy important Public Work
ssue, Calmly Proceeds to Ignore Pre- Election
That NeiII B. Fields Reputation
! the Cheap Sewer Proposition.

could depend. That this sewer would
be built for Sl33,0OO.
They know now that this pledge
was not made in good faith They
know that it was made for election
purposes only They know that no
! effort has been made to meet the
! pledge That it has been as utterly
and as rccklessly disrcgarded as have
IAN other democratic campaign prom
I ises made at that time.
The people know that 100000 Of
! public money has been contracted to
/ eXpend
The people do not know what they
are going to get for that expenditure
Of near third of million dollars.
/ They do not know how many miles
! Of sewer they are 10 get whether 1t
is 70 cover the whole city or not;
whether John smith. who PAYS the
same taNcs Ass ,totn Jones. Is going to
be permitted to use thc old uwer. 4
cess pool ana breeding place FOR dis
ease or whether hc viii get on the
new sewer which runs past Jones
place.
we are told Chat we should leave
Mayor Lester and his administration
in chargc until This system is COM
pleted. That having gotten into Of
ice on promises made i'm bad faith
they should bc allowed to remain in
office to carry to its end the deliber-
alto plot Go fool the people.
What are we getting for this $306-
900 expenditure How much sewer
viii lc butte What Kind of sewer is
it, When win IL be completed? How
mach is il going 10 cost if IL ever is
completed How much is it going TO
cost 10 keen IL going il it eyer is COM
nletcd9
Does the administration know2
II fl does what kind Of an admins
tratiou is it that fails to take the /
people. whose money is being spent
into it's confidence II the adj
ministration does not know, here in .
the name Of administrative ncompe-
tence viii we wind up?
These questions remain answered
This administration, without ex-
PLANTATION. without apology, goes braz-
emily before YOU and says we tricked .
YOU into voting for US two years ago
by promising YOU things we knew we
could not do,
1T is true, we have spent q great
dead more of your money than we
promised you we would, il is true, Won
do not know how or for what results
we have spent it-but trust MS again"
Had this administration, when It
came into office, taken the people in
to their confidence, or at least pre-
tended to do so had they said plain
y We made promises To YOU which
va cannot fulfill. we find that the re-
oublicans were right and that we were
wrong. we have made a mistake and
vill do the best we can to remedy it.
rhen perhaps the people would have
orgivcn the bad faith of the ante
Election promises or overlooked the
ignorance and Incompetence which {
prompted them.
This administration has done moth
ng OF the kind IL found aus soon as
9 got into office. what il already Q
knew, chat even the sanitary sewer. to .
,e at an adequate. would cost just {
bout what the republicans had esti- !
mated IL would or S325O00. Thcy }
ound. what the republicans knew. I
hat storm water sewer was neces-
airy.
What did they do2 Did they come /
ut like men. honest but mistaken. i
nd tell the people the factsf
Not for % minute Having fooled {
he people once they began immedi- {
telY program. the chief object of
hich was To- fool the people again.
his time into believing that they had
arried out their campaign pledges.
The storm water sewer was elm-
mated the mileage necessary to z
ls4ke the sewer adequate and eom- G
lete. was cut down.
Findine that 90 cost little more 9
loney 90 install the gravity system 6
iil cost So much more for pump =
lg tllat in two years this cost c
umpine system. regardless OF the :
ict that this hft cor pumping system 3
il cost so much more for main z
nance that in two Years this cost \
ia have consumed the difference in .
obstruction. while the pcople will 2
ave g." eo on paving this operating =
lar-e eternmn 3
IL mHs 30 plain. deliberate effort ta <
'nrnus rho f"uliug of the people hv q