Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-04-23
WI NEED THE MEDICINE, BuT
VINO is no MIN IIP


Editor World: Apparently Mayor
Martin does not share In the conf
dencc which II might be expected he
would have In the lineal successor Z.
! his administration. lie rs quoted ~
not only having said that all the big
| business for the city has been con
| tractcd two years In advance, but
advocates the creation Of o munich
| pal League to look aftor the admins.
trh ion ana keep II from scealng
what Is left
But what ! would Ike to know 49,
| how can we believe the mayor when
/ he gays he is against the present city
Ch0rtcr2 He was one Of the daddios
Of It and was instructed to make IT
non partisan and non-poliucal, ana
declared he had succeeded IN making
! It that way ana yet he was the first
man 10 head "A partisan ticket 10 de-
feat his so-callcd non political char
ter. II looks TO me as though the
mayor was going to wind up his po-
lucnl career as he begun It, by trying
TO fool the public,
II the mayor is sincere in his state
mcnts in the Sunday morning Mud
DUuhcr," why did he work so hard to
elect the democratic ticket and per
pctuato unbridlod msrule? In view
Of an the circumstances | believe that
in the rebuilding Of the city charter
we had better leave the mayor off the
job. II he misses the mark again as
badly as he missed II the first time
in his efforts to MALE It ngnpartisan,
he Is liable to write it go that it will
be not only partisan, but one party,
or a fraction of a party would per-
haps suit him better.
The mayor says taxes in Tulsa are
not high. and then turns over in his
stall and "wollers" around by saying
that the democratic state officials are
responsible for the taxes that are too
high. Poor devils, they ran all over
the state TO help control little city
elections and played the political game
like a drunken sheep herder bucking
faro bank after six months session
in the lonely hills with no company
except band of sheep, and then to
be called thieves by their own party
is rubbing it in just about right.
The mayor should be asked why ha
did not take his darling political
babies, Wooden, Smiley, Yeager and
Nheatley before the state board of
equalization and fight for the interest
Of Tulsa taxpayers. He says valua-
tions in Tulsa are too high, which Is
admitted by all, and II would not have
taken much to have paid The expenses
Of the mayor and his entire COM
mission to have made the trip to the
state capital and protected the inter-
ests of the people Of Tulsa.
If they did not feel able to foot the
bill out Of their own pockets they
could have put 1t in with the other
sundries or added it on the 1895 for
cab hire for the police department,
or included it in the items comprising
the SIS, 600 Of miscellaneous expenses
of the city 1t would not have made
either very much larger,
! am not agin' the municipal league
N
formed to look after the incoming
democratic administration. but ! am
agin' the mayor running the league,
for ] believe he has fooled himself
II he has not fooled the rest of MS for
the last time If he insists on working
on the charter again. ! am going to
vote right now to have him sent out
to the municipal pest house and quar-
antincd until the new charter is in
proper working condition.
do not mean 10 insnuate that the
MAYOR personally is not to be trusted,
but politically ] think he is too durnei
uncertain, If not slippery, TO try and
make any more political medicine for
Tulsa. / agree that we need the medi-
cine, but | am opposed to the mayor
preparing the dose / think we have
had enough
JUST A REPUBLICAN.