The Sentinel=record., 1913-03-16
ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY ON THE PLATFORM OF LAW ENFORCE
 MENT AND ANTLDRuMMlNo.
lSCANDIDATE 0F, THE PEOPLE
Says Influence of City Administration Is Necessary to Eiination of the Is Necessary to Elimination of the
 the New Law.

To the Voters of Hot Springs
 Realizing that crisis has been reached in Hot Springs,sa turning Of the tide, a period at hand when every influence, official and otherwise will be needed to support healthy senti- ment for a municipality that VIII DC conducted as guarantee of safety and security for citizen and visitor alike. and in answer to innumeTable requests from substantial citizens of Hot Springs, l announce myself as a candidate for mayor, submitting my candidacy to the whole of the voting citizenship.
 Municipalities of all classes haye long since discarded the theory that party submission is more wholesome than good government Party lines are discarded everywhere when exi- geneies arise that offer a betterment of conditions through other avenues
 Ny candidacy is not a selfish one. its 6siii is to overthrow an admins tration that has stood gagged. bound and tied. indifferent and obstructing when the people entitled to it's help ful. influences are interested in q Slight for the betterment of the com munity.
 My affiliations and my alliances oG the past when public issues were in the balance have won for me that public confidence which urged me to assume leadership in a fight for q more progressive and more advanced Hot Springs. Confidence in the present city administration was cor tainly not strengthened when the mayor assumed a stand where l al- ways stood attitude at a time when exposures of thieyery and corruption in local affairs em ohasized a demand for prompt and effective action.
 With the enactment of legislative bill making the exhibiting Of gamb- ling devices in Hot Sprngs or in t1e state a felony. one deep rooted evil was elim4nated-~but it requires more than the writing of q law to alter the conditions. There was a law before but it's application was so lhindered, and violators so protected, that worse i.lan gambling was operated through the tolerance of the city administra. ton.
 Therefore. regardless of the enact. ment of gambling felony bill. if the city Is to be kept free from swindlers, confidence men, crooks and thieves the city administration cooperation must be necessary. and instead oi iIhis being merely a cooperation, the city. with it's police power supported by the people, should be in the van guard when the rights of the people are trampled
 The city administration lending the silent aeauiescence of it's power to the agencies of crooks, has proven an Obstrncton to the advancement oi Hot Spxings The administration was not deceived 1 shall be able to es tablish before the voters of Hoi Springs that The mayor was thor. oughly advised of the necessity oi prompt action when this seasons pa tronage was about to be turned away through fear Of coming here, and the mayor stood pat
 Hot Springs is about to urge before congress appropriations for the de yelopment and upbuilding of Bof Springs. We all realize that ours re quests for government aid heretofore nave been answered with the state ment that we must clean up and meril recognition before we shall receive 1t
 Puhiic sentiment. men in the hnmn Ter walks of life, not clothed with of ficial power. have undertaken tc change Hot Springs about, to make ii municipality deserving of all il might receive Part of the chang, mas been worked The foundation fol a cleaner city has been laid The building is in progress
 But to permit the election, al thl' crucial time, of a city executive who has had chailse of the city affaif through it's darkest history to D' again ushered into power would DC taken by the government and by thu outside world as an endorsement witl in our municipality of the "esand pat policy that caused our city to he helt up to seovn and ridicule throughout the whole of the country not mor' taan two months ago. The outslu' werld will not so soon forget
 Cooperation is necessary to the up huilding of any city The stand at policy of the present mayor | in opposition to the demand of th' aeople There is friction, and ther' will continue friction The influenee of mon anxious to upbuild Sle eit' will be counteraeted by official n fluenceN There is certainly a pun lie demand for a city administrator hat will cooperate with the count administration to the end of the en forcement of the laws. and the count administration. regardless of the III