The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-10
The Ardmoreite'S
HOME EFORUM
dior ArdmOrelte.
TIME TO AWAKEN.

TIME TO AWAKEN.
cat the request Of a large number
Of its readers The Ardmoreite re-
produces an article, from the pen of
Charles Won Weiss, which appeared
in Fridays Ardmoreite. and which
treats in a careful and dispassionate
manner of present conditions in this
cityD
II was with much interest that /
read the editorial in yesterdays Ard
moreite. and / feel that it is high
time that every citizen of Ardmore
should give expression 10 their views
on the great question before us, the
city's government.
For years we have lived IN a
FOOLS paradise dreaming dreams Of
city growing into greatness through
the force of its natural resources. We
have given little heed to the low
tumble that now and again has been
darted across the horizon filling the
air with warning fumes. We have only
mildly wondered al these things and
gone our way in fancied security We
| have given scant cognizance TO the
efforts Of those who. sensing as II
were the true dangers, have tried re-
peatedly to launch a new plan of city
| government. instead we have sat SUI
pinely, voting bond issue after bond
issue. and municipal ticket after mu-
nicipal ticket. complaining a bit now
and then when reports Of misappropri-
alton, mismanagement on kindred der
/ elections came to our notice. but that
has been the extent Of our effort to-
! ward a betterment OF our municipal
! affahs.
Now The shadow Of impending cslam'
uy hangs like a pail over our city,
its very lights seem dimmed thereby
while its citizenship stands awed-
appalled, their dream Of municipal
greatness shattered The warning
rumble has at last become a roar
the flashes of flame have turned
10 blazing furnace, While the
fumes have become deadly. We must
realize now that our fair city lies
PROSTATE, its streets unpaved and Ill
kept. its water dried up, It's treasury
all but empty its bonds sneered at
It's very heart eaten by the cancer
Of incompetency and mismanage
ment
The repeated denials of our ord
erly petitions for relief should con-
vince us beyond question that the
time has come for the employment
Of other means of redress-that We
must change our city hall from
grinning skull OF official affrontlye'
ness into an abode Of the servants
Of the people We must tear dowr
the red flag of contempt for The
city's well being which all TOO lone
has so brazenly been flung on the
wind and hoist in its stead the em
blem OF city well governed and ef
ficiently administered
There have lived tyrants and clog
gers of public progress before thi'
good day--they too denied the peti
ton of the people but their bone
now lie in forgotten graves or theii
living abode is an exile II George
the Third Kaiser William or Ca
Nicholas could not stand against In
will of an outraged people, how
then. can q mayor, commissioner
or even city attorney do so?
, Have we learned nothing by tn
lessons OF the past2 Are We agaii
. going TO vote for the bond issue jus
called before We rid ourselves o
those who. having heretofore failed
! give no promise OF future better
, ment? Should we not first Try out tn
one petition the validity Of whlcl
needs not the Interpretation OF
paragon ON municipal law-whlcl
may give US the relief We need. Tha
petition is the RECALL.
Yours truly.
CHAS. Won WEISS.
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