The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-08-10
+. COMMISSION GOVERNMENT.



al Government Discussed.
WaSatachle is now more than a
belt century old and. vet. % is not
clothed legally stlh very much more
power Than 81 WAS when 10 WIS Of but
bali that age.
it could have been the Dallas or
Fort Worth OF today had IL but
reached out after, and gotten the
Houston and Texas Central railroad
IA 1872.
But 1t did not; It was content Il
let things just rock and take care Of
themselves.
Now it has not paved street In
the town not even the square is
paved.
Dallas, Fort Worth, Corsicana, and
in fact all the county seats surround
ing it have paved streets and squares
except the little town OF Kaufman on
the east, and in a county that has
not more than one half the wealth o.
Ellis county.
In December when the period OF
shopping usually begins II is just
mud mud, mud The ladies of the
city can scarcely cross from one cor
ner TO another without very serious
injury TO their apparel; in summer
it is d. t, dust lust.
The question is; What will remove
the two above mentioned nuisances?
The answer Is paved streets, Many
citizens are now putting in gooa
sidewalks and curbs, and cannot the
town pave, at least, the square, and
some Of the streets starting from it?
Then the question is: How is this to
be done?
Well, in my judgment, get the
best form of municipal government
that is possible This is very evident
ly the commission form. which VIII
be given new special charter which
under the amended constitution, it
is possible to obtain at the coming
meeting OF the legislature Hereto
fore, it has only been possible to get
a special charter for a city where il
had over ten thousand inhabitants,
bat last year the people voted on and
adopted an amendment to the const1-
tuition under which the people of a
city Of five thousand inhabitants may
have granted to them a special char
ter and in it there may be provided
for about two commissioners and a
mayor TO compose the city govern
will give all their time to the city af-
fairs just as the managing officer
gives all his time to the affairs of
bank or other corporation, and in this
way the very best service will be OBJ
tained.
There has not a single city in Tex
as which adopted the commission
form of governments ever abandoned
it.
Indeed all the greater cities have
the commission form of government,
and their prosperity has been greater
than ever before.
If the city of Waxahachie will keep
up with the progressive cities around
her it is time for a committee to be
made up and it proceed to the prepar-
i'm ~ y,ba ~, he
ed to the legislature this coming
winter, and with it, and its new form
of government, the city will take on
such a degree of progress as it neve.
has before.
The square would be paved, and
Main street, Rogers to the Katy depot
and Central depot. and College to the
Central depot and the Brazos Valley
depot.
This will furnish labor to the la
boring man, and conveniences to all
men and their families, and, like the
handsome court house, it would soon
be paid for, and no one would hardly
miss the amount of money paid out.
Let me. however, before ! close,
pause and say, that l do not mean
this to be a reflection on any official
OF the city, but am merely suggest
ing what seems to ME would be COM
mensurate with the progressive city
that Waxahachie ought to be, ana
will be with Just little effort.
W. M. TIDWELL