The Springdale news., 1915-05-14
CITY MARSHAL
 ALVIS TALKS
AS WILLIE SEES THINGS.

The following statement by City Marshal Avis was presented by him to The News for publication. The News is ready to join hands with Marshal Avis in a genuine clean up Springdale, and believing that the spotlight of publicity will have a great tendency toward stopping some of these practices, space is gratefully granted
 To the Good People of Springdale:
 want to say a few words just to me. You all say you are for law and order, well, 1 could have made bet ter clean up of some things in our good little town of Springdale, if 1 had known just who were my friends, and who were not. l have stood out on my own promise, for this reason, that 1 did not know where the good christian people of Springdale were afraid to show their colors, or wheth- CT they were to a point where they had given up all hope of good old cleanup.
 Now, brother and sister, l said no man, or set of men could buy me off for drink of liquor, or dish of ice cream, and when l went on the mo ,.eWa.a I ,aat fol. bowman, not the devil or his demons. Now, you, MT. Boot.egger, and you. MT. Pokerplayer, if you don't want to walk up to the law, you had bet ter quit gambling upstairs. Some of you already know you can't nudge up to your uncle and buy him off with drink of buckeye Whiskey.
 want to say that l have warm place in my heart for that hotel man who said No, you cant bring no girl to my place and put p.3And l want to say another thing; if that man had got a room at either one of the hotels on that night, that some one would Of had d door to be hinged the next morning.
 know some of you have whispered it on the streets of Springdalle that Avis was Socialist. Why was this passed around? l can tell you why. It is because you knew that l was net a toe-ksser. and l don't intend o cater to no rotten doctrine, demo- crat, republican or socialist. If you don't want the ordinances of this town enforced you take them off the books. And 1 mean what 1 say, it is from the heart and don't just come from the teeth.
 Mr Hardbatt, if you don t want me to come and get you, you had bet ter get in the collar, and keep out of your dirty work l have some work o complete as scon as get this done, and you shall know some things that have been going on in Spring dale. l haven't made 107 arrests up te date for nothing.
 am no criminal lawyer, and if I get out of the way, you go right Up and put the law 10 ne.
 For Gods sake. good people let Us put men in office that fear God Almighty We don't want officials that run around over the streets with their breaths smelling like they had been embalmed to ship to Cuba. do hope and pray to our Saviour that our Grand Jury will get every man that puts out whiskey. So good peo- pie. you think am plain.
 do my own dictating, and if live until we publish our reports again. I am going to have Guy Stafford to publish every man or woman $ name that has been arrested, and just what the crime was.
 Brother, I am going to close for this time I don't know whether on dear editor will give this space or not, but if not, hope in some other way to get this before the public, and get it out
 also hope that l may be able to prove to you that stand-patter is q good clean officer.
 Yours truly.
 J. E. Avis, City Marshal.
 Old Stand Platter. 
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