Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-07-15
MIR. YENNEY SEES BRIGHTER DAYS

Now that the election is over 1 hope
Wildwood will settle down to business.
With new men with a clean slate we
certainly can look for better days for
with charity to all and malice toward
none," we can stand back of the new
Commissioners and help make their
administration all that can be hoped
for.
With all due respect to the men
turned out, it raj impossible for them
to serve the best interests of Wild
wood as long as they continued their
personal quarrel. With added law
suits and injunctions which wrought
injury to our city, and finally brought
about the recall, each side or faction
hoped to down the other and put back
their own men. But both were swept
down with the tide of public disap-
proval, but in the onrush we should
not lose sight of the fact that ex-
Mayor Smith has done a great deal
for the island resort in the way of
public improvement. Let us give
credit where it is due, but the time has
come when he must step aside which
vas so emphatically demonstrated at
the polls on election day; but no
doubt his judgment will be good and
valuable in helping to>solve some of
the difficult problems which confront
Wildwood. Many a ship has struck
the rock or shoals because the captain
failed to consult the old pilot. The
new incumbent in Office has no easy
task before him, but we all can help
a little by striking the right attitude
toward his efforts. One thing, l hope
the new municipal pier will go out
on the site selected Just as quick as
possible; it will mean thousands to
Wildwood in the way of new building
and increased values to real estate.
And again, what is the use to talk
conventions until we have a suitable
building in which to hold them, and
attractice hotels at which they can
put up?
Let us not lose sight of the fact
IAQI WIN OOQ Aoo q SlCoI luIulO ILL
with a good business administration
this is the time and place to invest
in real estate. Get in on the ground
floor and watch the marvellous growth
| of Wildwood.
Now a word in closing. l entered
the contest upon the urgent request
of many of my friends, but when I
| saw the drift of sentiment l told my
friends to vote as they pleased, and
they went with the tide, not because
they thought less of me, but it was
evident l did not have a chance. And
again, had they brought out the new
candidate in time, l would have lined
up with the rest of them. l appre-
Fciate the fact that a few of my friends
stood by me, with the statement that
they would go down with me on their
word of honor due to the promise
made. Now if I am allowed the COM
mon expression, l do not feel sore,
but I do not think 1 really merit some
of the malicious slurs that have been
cast at me. However, we will let
them rest now and through the end
less ages. But they must admit that
I did my part in bringing about the
change.
The change started when 1 called
the mass meeting and has been going
on ever since. When my ability as a
man is assaulted 1 consider the source
and still hold my faith and will work
for a Greater Wildwood; so, friends,
do not weep over my political demise.
l admit it was short and strenuous,
but not crooked.
Respectfully,
E. YENNEY.