Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1912-06-27
MAYOR TRIESTE ESCAPE
But The Evidence is Against Him and He
Stands Convicted on His Own
Argument.

A person reading the article in the
Advocate of last Thursday with refer
ence to The Republican, cannot help
but come to the conclusion that the
Mayor of Audubon is one of those self
constituted individuals who knows no
sin wouldn't know it if he stumbled
over it, However apparent this may
seem, yet it is erroneous
He makes the emphatic statement
that he did not know or see any evil
dences of gambling and asks The
Republican editor to produce evil
dence. He certainly must have seen
some evidence of gambling or his city
marshall would not have caused the
arrest of one of the parties conducting
one of the games of chance.
The Republican editor was not alone
in the discovery of gambling games and
graft which was carried on at the Carni-
val. Some of the very best citizens of
Audubon, including number ofwomen,
could detect the very thing to which
the eyes of the Audubon Mayor were
closed. In support of The Republicans
contention that there was lawlessness
at the Carnival, we submit the follow
ing parapragh clipped from the Girls
void American. Thiscarnival company
is the same company that was in
Audubon: AZ
"A goodly number of young people took in the
great 90 carnival at Griswold last Saturday
night and most of them report it to be the
greatest aggregation of fraud and humbug. to
say nothing of the rottenness of It. that 1t was
ever their misfortune to witness We can't for
the life of US see why such a dirty. nauseating
bunch of singing grafters are left to run at
large. Two-thirds should be sent to the pen
and the balance be put TO pounding rock. An
expert could drill for weeks into the craniums
of most of them and not find any trace of brains.
We understand that one gentleman who visited
the show tried his luck at mugging the dirty
Niger on exhibition with eggs and being IN.
lucky in the attempt handed the African a
brickbat In no gentle manner Bravol II he
only would have stretched him out for a while
It would have saved some chaps some hard
earned money Lyman News Budget in Girls.
void American"
Does the foregoing paragraph indicate
that the Republican was wrongs 1t
was on these same grounds that The
Republican stated last week that
the Mayor ought to be critized for per-
hitting or at least allowing, such an
aggregation of crooks to carry ON their
games of chance. We insist that the
Mayor of town is the proper official
to look after these matters. True, he
is not required to personally look after
such matters, but he should have given
his marshall strict injunction to arrest
the first violator of the law. mas.
much as this was not done, the Mayor
rightfully comes in for criticism for
failure to do his whole duty.s
He attempts to exhonorate himself by
saying that the county attorney did not
prohibit the exhibition. How could
the county attorney do such a thing
when he was in Burlington all week.
Mr.. Spencer knew when he wrote his
article last week, that the county attor-
ney was not in the city and could not have
prohibited the carnival from exhibiting.
The Mayor of Audubon must be a
disappointment to his closest friends.
He was elected at the recent city cleo.
tion because the majority of the people
of the town thought he would see to it
that vice and corruption was stamped
out and that the perpetrators would be
punished according to law. He is evil
IDENTIFY not living up to that expectation
for here are two self convicting state.
ments from his own pen and published
in his own newspaper.
l. THE Mayor did not permit or pro-
hibit the show from coming to Audi.
bon."
2. There was a law violation the
week Of the carnival which was over.
looked.
In the first instance the Mayor says
he did not have the evidence altho he
was there and saw what others saw.
Amy map with particle of sense and the
slightest knowledge Of the ways Of the
world coyaa have seen what was going