The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-29
MAYOR SHOWS HIS
HAND IN HIGH ABUSE
Takes Issue BY Hurting Insults at The
Newspaper Men Who Stand for
DGCency and Morality.

SO by the yentriloquist from the hole
in the ground. 1t is to be hoped
that it has gone far enough, but
there will be no promises along
any such line, at least not until
there is an effort in some degree to
bring about a higher civic decency.
History is being made in Wa
tertown. Things have transpired
within the past few months show
ing the trend of public opinion,
They are a harbinger Of better
things. They may not come with
the election on Tuesday next. They
may not come within two years,
four years, or even six years. But
they are coming slowly.
Here we must, from necessity,
become a little personal. The may
or at the special meeting of the
council took occasion, not to take
to task, but to roaSt-delIberately
roast-the two papers in this city
which are endeavoring to bring
about moral up-lift, which be evil
IDENTIFY does not favor Judging from
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with the mayor is, he has become
so pompous that be is positive Of
! tense in his manner and Indifferent
to the demands Of the better class,
which constitutes at least eighty
per cent. of the people Of Water
town. Under his high moral and
benefcent CD administration, nei-
ther he nor the city council have
evinced any disposition to curb
vice and when he says that the two
papers to which he refers, have in
timated that every other door was
a resort and the wives and daugh-
tiers common property" he lied de-
F., liberately and Intentionally.
The Leader is being lied about
and misrepresented in a manner
shameful. At that, the paper has
the best element of the saloonkeep-
ers with it in its crusade for de-
cency. The best attestation of
this is the fact that within the past
| two weeks, five more saloon keep
ers have become permanent SUBJ
scribers of the Leader. Mind you,
they are saloonkeepers-not dive
keepers. We have in Watertown
saloonkeepers the Leader would a
thousand times rather see in the
executive chair of our city than the
present mis-f1t, who has had it in
] MS power to make a reputation for
himself to which in years to come
he might point with pride. On
election day, the protest he will re-
ceive at the polls may possibly
take some of the conceit out of him
and reduce his abnormal egotism.
According to his views, every man
who signs petition asking for po-
litical rights, is an Anarchist.
How do you like it fellow citi-
zens, 1920 of you, who signed the
petition asking for the privilege to
vote for city attorney, street COM
missioner and city engineer?
Remember the Petition!
Remember it on election day and
scratch his name off your ballot as
a protest against this Insult
Now as to 'foater." The Lea
der bunch" have been residents
of this city for the past seven years
endeavoring to be good citizens.
One of them was hoater' il
1861 and continued floating in de-
tense of his country till 1865. He
was in Watertown just before his
] enlistment, which was from Jeffer-
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son county. He was a hoater
. when that kind of hoaters were
/, needed. He fought for principle
then and is still fighting for prin
: ciples whenever opportunities pre-
sent themselves. But he does no
anticipate or ask any credit of May
or CRUDE.
The fight of the present day i
to save our young men, youni
women, boys and girls. What ha