The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-04-19
PEOPLES TICKET PLATFORM

The citizens of Wallace in convention assembled,
having selected candidate for Mayor candidate for
City Clerk and eight candidates for Councilmen from
the various wards of the City, irrespective of their
party affiliations, to be voted upon at the next City
Election on the oath day of April, 1917, under the
name of the PEOPLES TICKET, do hereby pledge
such candidates to the following principles in case of
their election:
|. That we favor good, clean City Govern
ment free from the domination of any individual or
clique
2. We favor the paving of the City of Wallace
without further litigation or dilatory tactics.
;. We favor City Police Force that will sup
press crime; that is efficient, alert and fully dspos
ed to protect the interests of the people of the City
a. We favor all needed public improvements
sistent with the revenues of the City We call the
enton of the the fact that many of the candi
dates presented for their consideration have served on
the Council heretofore and have been instrumental in
permanently improving the City, in the way of paving
and of building concrete wall along the bank of the
river and Placer creek, at a minimum cost and
favor the further building of such walls along private
property where needed as fast the of the
City will permit: but oppose the expenditure of the
peoples money for the purpose of building concrete
walls along the railroad property, but pledge our can
ddates to their best endeavors to have the railroad
company build at its own cost, such walls along its
property.
s. We further call the voters attention to the
fact that several of the candidates nominated have
served the City during the last years when the new
concrete bridge built the South Fork of the
Occur dAene river, on Sixth street. and we pledge our
candidates, If elected, to the replacing of the wooden
bridges across the streams within the city limits, as
fast as worn out, with permanent concrete bridges
O. We are opposed, at the present time, to the ex-
pendure of the peoples money needessy in the cree
ton of municipal building for the reason that such
building could not be built without bond issue and
would impose needless burden upon the taxpayers
I. We favor the keeping of the Fire Department
in its present high state of efficiency and point with
approval to the purchase of motor hose and chemical
truck by the present Council in order that the people
of the City may be better served
g. We call the attention of the voters to the fact
that the present City Council many of whom are re-
nominated on this ticket, caused the present garbage
ordinance to be enacted whereby the City of Wallace
has taken over the collection and removal of the gar
bage of the City at very much less cost to its nhabit
ants than under the old method and to the benefit of
the City Notwithstanding the cost has been much less
to the citizens, the garbage department has produced
surplus to the City, and pledge our candidates to
further improvements in the matter of the disposition
OF garbage without undue expense to the CITY,
g We pledge the PEOPLES TICKET to act
in harmony with our State and National government
Turing the present crisis.