The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-09-12
Connolly "Will Enforce
The Laws" The Times Will
Support Him for Mayor!

think this condition ought TO be changed.
stand for a clean city | stand for conception
Of government based upon respect for pubic law
and obedience 10 public law on the part or DOM
officials and citizens alike. | am against any
compact or agreement whereby any portion OF
the community secures the right 10 violate the
law In exchange for political support OF any
administration Law-breaking Is bad enough,
the constituted authorities and the law breaker
fs infinitely worse. IN that IL strikes al the very
foundations OF government
The foregoing are the words of Judge
William F. Connolly in his declaration to
the people of Detroit as candidate for
the mayoralty.
We know Judge Connolly to be poll
tician.
We know him to be a successful poll
tician.
He has been so successful that he has
been placed in the leadership of his party
In Michigan, and stands high in the coun-
sells of the national party.
The successful politician knows that
first of all promise made MUST BE
3 KEPT.
He knows of the political graves that
have been dug with broken promises.
Judge Connolly promises us that if
elected mayor he viii enforce the law.
The Times believes that when Judge
Connolly makes that statement he means
it--that when he makes the people of
Detroit that promise. he makes it as a
promise to be kept.
Judge Connolly went further in his
declaration and sealed his promise to the
people of Detroit in the following SEN
fences:
Before the mayor assumes the prerogatives Of
his once he takes this oath Il do soemnly
swear that will support the constitution and
laws OF the United States, the constitution and
laws OF the state OF Michigan, and faithfully
perform all the duties OF the office OF mayor. so
help me God"
II am elected mayor shall be called upon
to take this oath, and | trust that no one will
do me The injustice of believing that will take
II, ms they say on the street, with my fingers
crossed" The public press has done the
honor OF saying that my word is good when
given. I have enough self-respect, | trust, and
enough reverence to strive TO make good my
sworn word before the world | am confident
that every rightthnking man who has the vel
fare OF this community at heart indorses this
view.
Judge Connolly has done what The
Times has waited for him to do before
It would support him for the mayor
atty.
The Times wants TO see Detroit cleaned
up.
The Times wants to see the law taken
out of the dirt and mire into which it
has been cast and trod upon, while the
town has been thrown wide open in the
upbuilding Of a political machine as per-
nicious as it is powerful, and set up again,
as thing to be feared and respected,
through its ENFORCEMENT.
Judge Connolly can do this.
He can do it alone-he is big enough
for the job, familiar enough with condi
tons for the job and courageous enough
for the job.
He can do it EASILY, because he vii
have the backing of the best citizenship
which The Times has always contends
10 be the real power and the real force il
this city, once il is awakened.
Judge Connolly can turn the trick be
cause he will awaken the people.
The Marx administration is to blam
for the intolerable conditions existing il
( this city today.