South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-10-03
The Local Republican Retreat


D EPUDAroN of the Keller administration now
N past by very gave being interesting
Indictment administration ushered filled with promises from
these but bids fair be ushered howed with from much
the
asserted movements independent
utterly Mayor Keller that
sequence South Bend to partisan government
We republican republican hosts
joined forces with the four and with the aid of demo-
maContents accomplished dismal
failure almost criminal
Nearly four years have elapsed They have been
years disappointment administration
had opportunity o faith in the government
of the city by independent political parties
make control by political party at least for next
to impossible 1t did not grasp the opportunity 1t failed
appreciate properly what before it 1t did
to have complete realization of its debt or its duty TO
the people who placed it power"
"To the placed power yes people
The republicans and progree ditto democratic maconen and with
them the that their municipal
We take from this that Keers administration failed then
independent Cizenke
and independent
We know that this has had much do with the constantly growing repub
can dislike for quite appointments
the admission though, perhaps, inadvertently put. Read
result oft this failure has been to drive people
back to partisnshp and to make it certain that the
administration will be party one Citizens movements
received blow; they may
The hope gov
eminent under nonparisanship has received great
back and they that South Bend will revert par
tsan methods of government perhaps for all time"
question H. Loughmn the
republican mayoral years ago.
from Lewis Landon they
under nonparanshp" did they they
hope of victory under the petense expecting
government would be really repubico-pa
not lost from the memory everyone yet
republicans took the citizens determined placing dyed-n
hewoo republican the head of the citizens ticket forgotten
piqued they when the mantle fell to bull
Some the Keller supporters
government under nonparsanshp but they prominent among
whc pronouncng failure who demanding
usanship.
The citizens of them of
FORM not false and while accomplished all that
they hoped for has done well enough that they have deserted the idea
not by a long
This perhaps partisan the least
its contemporary will be this year. Mayor Keller nothing
Neither does Mayor Keller anything
merely republican prenders
those campaign days repeating the charges that
calculated recement the republicans and prOgves together
Failing that with preference republicans naturally
has failed from their viewpoint
The right kind the o
whole matter Good government in South Bend o any
other city cannot be expected without the right men
ecutive legislative and administrative positions.
While Directing the their spent they fail
themselves with the nominees of the parties
and therefore vote bindly instead of investigating to de-
termne in their minds which nominees will probably
give the best results
difference going to a
return to partisan government?
In partisan is the party that is held TO
breath republican seeking cOndne
tnsh municipal affairs and then here in the they throw
bait for independent voting
"t is the kind of office they that the the whole
matter and they the individual voter acqn himself with the
nominees, and the basis of independence anyhow
tip they Col Sullivan Saturday