The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-02-27
FAT IS
OOz|Nc OUT OF
A PORK Barrel
Ten Thousand Dollars Will Be Spent,
'Tis Said, to Defeat Com
mission Form. ~
CASH AND FINE RAIMEHr
To Every Individual voter-Com
and See Us First at the
National Palace"

The PORK BARREL" has been
opened and the order OF FRYING
FAT" pervades Cairo atmosphere.
TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS is 10
| be spent to defeat the Commission
Foorm of Municipal Government. tbs
said
| "A suit OF clothes and ten and
| twenty dollars in cash to every ward
heeler, running snitch'' and dice
blookum" In Cairo is the price for
each individual vote and influence,
said a prominent commission advo-
cate to a representative Of The Bnl-
letin last night.
"The 'Phat Candidate for Police
Magistrate is making himself very
conspicuous In this affair. He had
best look to his own candidacy, even
though he Ii on certain slate 70 De
Icarrietl through at the other fel-
lows expense continued this astute
gentleman thoroughly convsrsant
with political underground methods
| in Cairo
| Il don't blame the boys for get
ltlng all they can as It's starvation
with them for twenty-three months
out of every twenty-four. hope
!that the "pork barrel" will bo
emptied this time as freely as y was
sIssnring certain congressional race
l Il know 81 offers Of nifty cents and np
TO two dollars being made, but the
'hoys' are game and won't stand Tor
Isome one else getting the suits ct
clothes and the tens and twenties.
An equal division for all with no
lfavorites
"Why is ii. continued the speak
ar. "that there is such vast sum
of money to be spent to- defeat the
Commission Form Of Government2
",rEN THOUSAND DOLLARS In
cash Ii whole lot of money to
spend to attain such an object. There
must be something doing that the
public isn't onto
'.Fear of an exposure In the pad
ding Of the $4,000 pay roll incurred
/, in the repair Of the Commercial
avenue Panama Canal is not suf-
fcient justification, neither does the
desire for perpetuation in office FUR
nish reason.
"I am up a. tree, but the expendi-
| ture OF this immense amount am
sure The Gray Wolves know u as
they have been told, COME AND
SEE US FIRST and they are
fiocking to the PALACE" in droves
Il know that only very few
years ago $3.50. was given two can
didates, one white and one black 10
withdraw from an aldermanic race
lin the upper ward. In the interest OF
a candidate, now said to be strongly
against the Commission Form OF
Government. | didn't know that
lob in the council justified the eS-
lpendture of such an amount
thought IT, paid approximately six
1 dollars a month, exclusive OF one
dollar for an occasional extra meet
ling You can draw your own In
ference.
TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS is
some money. believe me, and can
hardly conceive of anybody being so
patriotically inclined toward Cairo
as to expend this amount Of money.
un ess 1T is with a selfish motive
with the public paying the bin in
the end
The advocates of the Commission
Form OF Government have the best
of the argument so far. They have
heard all kinds of arguments oppos-
ling 1t. They have listened to the
bluster and bluff of the swash-
buekler element. but they have gone
on steadily with stout hearts and
clean hands and consciences. labor
| ing for this progressive form of
business government. knowing that
with ii Cairo will make material ad-
yances, finally occupying the posi-
tion in these two valleys to which
she is rightfully entitled. First she
must rid herself of the little old men
OF the sea and settle down to a gov
lernment. whercih every person will