South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-05
EIGHTEEN MONTHS OF MAYOR KILLERS ADMINS
TRATION-AND WHO'S "NAGGING" NOW?


have been done better Many
streets have been cleaner than
under some preceding administra-
TONS and some have received in
frequent or no attention.
Most saloons have learned that
the mayor is in earnest and most
OF them obey the law.
more 0bservant police department
might discover violations
Revelations OF saloon licenses
received hearty approval
The QuilhOt fiasco is of too recent
occurrence TO need comment IL
Is a black mark on the admins
tration's judgment. The mayors
attitude at first gave
hone that prostitution
would al least be reduced TO
minimum. Developments. now
ever. indicate that that hope was
doomed to disappointment.
Now. we have criticised Mayor Kel-
ler's administration because of it's only
partially purged police force; because
the public market was not being as
vigorously encouraged as it ought to
be; because some streets were receiv-
ing only infrequent or no attention;
because more Observant police might
of the Quilhot affair. and because of
the failure to fully suppress prostitu-
ton, but if we ever RECALLED any such
an arraignment as above, we do not
recall il. OF course. with US, we were
"nagging." playing politics" and
things of that sort, but hold. the end
is not yet. What is this? We quote
again:
What effect Mayor Kellers
ideas may have
is predetermined What he
has failed TO do in his
eighteen months of service
the mayor has time TO make
up FOR We do not eX-
pect Mayor Keller to rise
to the great occasion, however.
and therefore suspect that the
1917 city election will be a battle
between the democratic and re-
publican parties
Well, WEI. we'll: Wish" we opine,
that is ia her of the thought" Back
to partisan city government. if you
please,-of course, no politics in that.
and here you have the republican
partys initial two-step for it, played
might guess TO have been inspired by
the president of the Lincoln Crepubli-
cam club.-South Bends prize utility
lawyer.
What have the utilities to do with
it? Well. now that the campaign is
already on. read this:
Public utility rates have been
taken before
commission as Mayor Keller
promised, but many believed he
was playing to the galleries in
this matter TO carry public favor.
Discrimination among
wire using companies with refer
ence to forcing them under
ground is another black mark
which may never be erased.
one company goes I'M
foreground and others play with
the administration. 1t is
TO be hoped Mayor Keller will
soon let it be known that the peo-
pie and not the wire companies
govern South Bend
Which may, or may not be uttered
by our contemporary in a sort of fit of
jealousy. The discrimination referred
20 is supposed to be in favor of the
long distance telegraph and telephone
companies which assert that to put
their wires UNDERGROUND means a par
tial destruction of efficiency. The
board of works is investigating. We
hold no brief for Mayor Keller, the
boards of works. nor for the COM
panies; nay. not even for the Indiana
x Michigan Electric y Co, against
Il v~nfah 1,a
The queer point seeps through the
hope" that Mayor Keller twill soon
let it be known that the people and
not the wire companies govern South
Bend the same people, we presume,
who believed he was playing TO the
galleries. . To carry public favor"
when, acting in their benalf, he sent
;he Indiana < Michigan and the Gas
! Co. rates down to the public service
commission for readjustment.
! But this is not all of the complaint
il behalf of the local utilities. our
contemporary says farther:
Mayor Keller's attitude
| his seeming willingness to jeop-
| ardiZe life and property by oppO-
sition 10 jitney regulation. appar-
] emily in order 10 squeeze the
street car company, is condemned
] by thousands of sensible. thinking
] people. and is a factor that is
initiating severely against his
| administration.
Condemned by whom, and by what
thousands. we would like TO know2
How does the Tribune get its fingers
or the public pulse of those thousands
SO as 10 be able 10 exactly enumerate
them?
Who believed the mayor was play
ing 10 the galleries 20 carry public ia
vor when he instituted the utility rate
cases
The answer is easy. The Tribune
feels its own pulse as II accepts the
glad hand OF the utility magnates. the
bond-holders. and the utility lawyers
and surrounded by their coterie OF
henchmen and friends. all imagining
that because they think thus and So
| for revenue thousands in fact al