The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-09-22
OUR CITY GOVERNMENT.
LEFT over from last week.

Heft over from last week.
Without specializing or dealing with
individuals, we wish to say that the
city government for which the tax
taxpayers annually pay large sum OF
money, is evidently neglecting its job.
With rank rag-weeds growing luxuriant-
Iy on some OF the principal avenues OF
the city, with dirty, unswept sidewalks
covered with decaying leaves, sticks
and other debris (not to mention that
other court day nuisance, the dropping
of cattle) the city is in a condition that
a blind man could tell that those charg-
ed with the administration of the laws,
are not discharging their duties. 1t
matters not who is at fault, it is our
intention to keep calling them down
until some one wakes up with resolu-
ton to do something, The favorite
stab of those against whom we inveigh,
is ooh, he is only a Crouch" This is
of course only a mild epithet to many
others that they use. But the people
know that what we write and say is
true and they also know that the limit
of tolerance has been reached.
Now is the time of typhoid and ma
larial fevers and the people can not be
too careful. Cleanliness will prevent
many outbreaks of this dreaded scourge.
But what is the use for Mr.. A. to OBJ
serve the laws of the city, as well as
the laws of health, when many others
are permitted to do as they please with
out let or hindrance?
Whose business is it to see that the
laws are enforced? Let the law answer
this querie. Section 3499 of the Ken
lucky Statutes reads as follows:
THE Mayor or chief executive
shall see that the laws and ordl-
nances of the city are duly enforc-
ed and observed, and are faithfully
executed. He may require infor-
nation in writing from all the Off
GERS of the city on any subject re-
lating to the duties of their respec-
tive offices.
1t will be thus seen that it is the
duty of the Mayor to see that the laws
are enforced and he cannot relieve
himself by saying that he gives or
ders and expects them to be executed.
He must see that they are executed.
I = hot
understand and misrepresent us, that
we have no personal feeling against the
honorable Mayor. individuals are moth
ing to us in dealing with public ques-
tions but we never draw any individual
into public print without we feel that
we have just cause for so doing. That
the Mayor has not discharged his duty,
s evident to any man in his normal
senses and who is able to see around
him. That there are others equally
delinquent is evident to all. But who
they are and of what their delinquencies
consist, is not known to all, but are
known to the Mayor or ought to be so
known to him in the proper exercise of
his duties. He is clothed with ample
authority to find out for himself and to
remedy the short comings of his official
family. 1t must be borne in mind that
the Mayor is the "Chief of Police"
though this title is enormously attach
ed to the Office of Policeman. The law
reads:
Sec. 1901 "The Mayor shall be at
the head of the police of the city
and may command them in the
Performance of their duty. -.
For the Mayor personally, we have
nothing but the kindest regards. We
wish him well. But the time has come
for action by the proper authorities. If
they will not act, then the time is near
at hand when an august body of gen.
tlemen coming from the great body of
the county, called in grandiloquent
Language, The Grand Jury, will be ask
ed to investigate and see if it can not
give a long neglected city, a much
needed relief.
And now for the sake of those good
people who give no attention to their