Amador ledger., 1910-10-07
POLITICAL HOUSE-CLEANING.

time the people of Amador did political ouseceanng
Election days provided for this purpose At the expra
on every four the power back to the voters
of elecng officials take charge Of public business for the
ensuing four years The opportunity thus afforded re-
wardug such who have proved faithful to the trust
reposed them and of schagg chose who have proved
unsatisfactory in looking after the veal 1t is net
merely question of whether republicans democrats shall
fill the Offices for the next term. With most OF the voters
that is matter Of little compared with the over
shadowng issue whether small clique of designing pol
clans and officials shall be permitted dominate in county
affairs and continue abuses which have become wenigh
ntoerable to every rght-thinkng citizen. Down with
by seseeng BOSSES grown arrogant by long
continuance in power is the battecry that should appeal
with peculiar force every honest when he prepares
his ballot in the solitude of the election booth the Sth OF
November From local standpoint every other question
paes into nsgn6cance by the side Of this The square
dea is the proposition that up the citizens of Amador
county today and upon its solution at the baotbox will
largely depend whether this county favored by wealth
of natural sha enjoy reasonable measure of
prosperity in the years to
The readers of the Ledger will recall number of
of graft exposed by this paper at different times during the
past 1t party matter with us for the devel-
opmens have when political campaign in sight
But the carnival Of graft has survived all assaults Stemmed
form it has reappeared in another and things are
constituted there apparently break in the endless chain
In face of all that has been said single inquiry has
been started ascertain the facts There has been
for vndicaton by full investigation at the hands of
partial tribunal. few months ago grand jury report de-
caied that conditions the county hospital deporaby
bad 1t the duty of that body report such things and
for the comfort of the inmates and the credit of the county,
it was up the supervisors to investigate the com plant
Instead of this they slammed the grand jury by moving that
the report be signed framed and draped in heavy mourning
is found to be doing business without license and
owing $500 for back dues He we'll able pay for the
protection of government But he has political pull in the
fact that there number of in the family Now, if
Ratio had owed either of the officers like of money he
would have been notified Please remit No pee dixt pov
ery peatumped up for the occasonwould have passed
in lieu of coin But the money owing to the
people generally composed mainly of individuals who have
hard time in meeting the yearly exactons of the tax gaheer
but who collectively deemed be rich and few hundred
dollars less of pluckng for the benefit OF the pa
pered Individual with the pull would make little difference
There was not scrap of writing before them for relief
legal testimony akeu opportunity given for outside re
monstrance The district attorney suggested blanket mo-
ton for qucam the part of the county was gee-
l jumped proper outcome and protest against thls
plan greeted with storm OF abuse free license was
also given for the future Next the collector made app
cation to relieve W. H. Glenn from payment of overdue
wavsde uor license and free permit for the future.
was so ordered by accommodating board Notwithstanding
there was nothing file show that the benecare himself
was seeking exemption Probably the relief intended to
shield else rather than the principal has come
to pretty pass when officers charged with the collection of
county revenue take the initiative in scheme OF collec
to And when appealed the officials refuse to take any
action criminaly or civy, to stop this business
sup to the voters stay the further development of
this shameless policy