The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-01-27
five HUNDRED
DESIRE CHANGE
IN GOVERNMENT
Ten Petitions Saturday Evening Con-
tainei That Many Sigma.
lures Of Voters.
DEFER FILING TO WEDNESDAY
Places Where Petitions Can be Found
Many Individual Petitions
Said to Be Out.

The petitions asking for a special
election at which viii be submitted
for ratification or rejection by the
voters Of Cairo the proposal of the
adoption of the commission form Of
municipal government, it was said
yesterday evening, would not be
filed in the Alexander county court
until Wednesday.
What few petitions representa-
tive OF The Bulletin saw Saturday
afternoon contained 487 signatures,
a great many more than required by
law. but there were as many more
petitions upon which the names
were not counted.
In deferring the fl ling of the petit
,Iens until Wednesday, it is thought
that several hundred more sigma
sures can be obtained.
Many persons have expressed a
vii lngDcss to endorse the. move
'ncnt by attaching their names to
the petitions II presented them or
knowledge whore they can be found
As far as The Bulletin could ascer-
tain last evening there are IL petit
tions, some single others OF two and
three pages, among which. are those
at the office of A. Comings 7t2h
Commercial avenue, G. Crabtree,
T08 cominercial avenue, w L. Bris-
toI, 1913 Walnut street, J. w. Cor
nell, 225 Nineteenth street, Zion
Bishop, 220s Sycamore street. NJ.
Easterday, Buder Block, T. A. Full
Ter, Ais Twenty-fourth street, G.. NJ.
Perrault. 800 Twenty-eighth street,
J. I. Rennie. 3601-3 Sycamore
street and Herman c. Schuh, sol
Washington avenue,
The publication of this list of
where petitions have been placed
will no doubt result in the securing
Of a larger number of the signatures
of voters, so that when the petitions
are filed Wednesday they will carry
great weight on account of the pres
tige accorded any request of the pub
lie and its influence thereon.
Altogether 1t is expected, the petit
tions win be signed by 1900 or 1900
at al events the advocates OF the
commission form of government are
sanguine Of obtaining this number
notwithstanding that the campaign
has been one of spontaneity of pur-
pose and not deep laid plan and
concerted movement. during which a
store-to-store. office-to-office, house
to-office, factory-to-factory visit
would have been made with petitions
in hand asking each voter to sign
whether or not his real sentiment
limpelled him in that direction. only
| to experience a change of heart and
mind on election day and vote
against 1t.
With the idea of avoiding this un-
| pleasant and oft recurring one. in
the arena of politics. the petitions
have been placed within the reach
of all where they can be signed
without coercion.
The results of this method have
been entirely satisfactory.
The special election granted, q
campaign of education viii be fol.
lowed, greatly increasing the mum.
Der of advocates favoring this form
of an admirable, business-like gov.
ernment and the marshalling of at
army of militant units in a splendid
organization.
The Bulletin has already outlined
the plan Of education and how
speakers have volunteered their ser.
vices from other cities, where thi.
form of government has been ad
vantageously adopted, in exp aiming
the law, its operations and its ap.
lplication.
| Condensed, the commission form
of municipal government Is placing
all the machinery in the hands
of Ave men, four commission.
ers and a mayor, these FIVE men te
be each at the head of particular de.
|partment subject to the will of ths
voters.
| This form Of concentration d
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