Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-04
WAYS THAT ARE DARK


The Taxpayer politicians certainly endeavoring
to take full advantage of their experience school
political methods The safety of the public must lie IN the
fact that these methods have been demonstrated to have
outlved their usefulness and to be no longer effective
among enlightened and thinking people.
To follow around the trail of the reactionares is
constant reminder of Tammany methods Every concev,
able appeal being made to and ignorance ana
promise is withheld which might deceive and influence
vote through Misrepresentation.
To make these generaiites more defnlte-an attempt
being made to frghten property owners by the state
ment that the Citizens candidates propose program OF
paving with the attendant bonds against real estate
There truth whatever in this statement No program
of paving has been proposed by anyone and everyone knows
that the paving question entirely In the control OF the
property themselves. No paving can be
put through without the consent of majority of the
frontage.
The lowest and most unworthy species of political in
trgue is the appeal to prejudice The reactionary poll
tcans work constantly influence voters against
George Anderson and Will Fawce because they have been
successful to than ordinary degree If the Citizens
candidates have proved capacity for business questions
certainly something which the people ought to capitalize
and employ their advantage Municipal affairs Ger
tany constitute great business least they ought to
do and will be organized under the Citizens party
ideals AS much cannot be said for city affairs under the
administration of Boss Buckin But city affairs
great business and the natural thing and the common
thing is to employ our highest talent IN their man
field they been to be right all moral
and civic questions and have behind them record which
demonstrates their capacity for affairs
Still another example of the Tammany arts of the re-
dictionaries bull stories which being cir
culaed among the colored population of the city The most
absurd promises being made and the sest misrepre
sentations work upon the preudces and Influence the
of the coored people Fortunately all OF this beng
proved to be of little The colored people know Their
friends prove themselves day by day in their attitude to-
coored people they have opportunity to serve them
and help them They don't prove anything by the circula
ton good deal of Justification just before election The
friends the colored people those who them en-
poyment as they opportunity and lend helping hand
in the working out of their problems The coored people
can easily check and discover how much employment
thev have ever received from Bucin Simmons and Erwin
They would long have starved to death for any subsa
ta help that they have had from that source On the
other hand of them in the constant employ OF
members of the Citizens party who help them ALL the
time and that the thing which counts with the thinking
colored man.
attempt the Citizens candidates with everything
to which any exception be taken in city ADMINISTRATIONS
of past This is most absurd of all Anyone VINO mas
any acquaintance with Lavayea Fawcett and Anderson
know that their decisions made the merits of
case as it presents itself OF all the who could be
chosen these three would be less influenced by any
one or anything other than their highest understanding
and judgment of the problem in hand Fawcet Anderson
and Lavayea anybody candidates They are free
and and liberty and disposed to decide every
question upon merits. They have more to do with
any other administration than Simmons and Buckin ana
are no more committed policies other than what
they are themselves known to stand for.
Another misrepresentation is that Mr. tawcett TO re-
sign and give place the council to ese This is
without foundation. Mr. Fawcett is stieker emeritus and
the reactonares will have concern hereafter because Mr.
gives place to someone s but rather because ne
is very much on the Job ...
There every reason to believe that the Citizens can
ddaes will put policy of economy and efficiency
They will give the public double results because they know
how The record of the administration OF Boss Buckn
was that fortunes were thrown away through narrow
mined stupidity and inefficiency Buckin made mess OF
cy affairs because did not know how to them on
business basis This is the thing which we have got to get
through with. For the situation which confronts the city
we must have an enlightened practical efficient, pro-
gressve and economical administration Buckln-Sim-
mons administration with its narrow radlcalsm parsmony
and preudices impractical treatment OF business
questions would unthnkabe calamity and must not be-
One thing sure, Imperial Valley is not going wait
for the Colorado Improvement The people here are not
going around and wait for something to turn up hey
are aone to pursue the projected improvement with gor
and meantime spit their hands and turn things up Ihey
will be able to produce many millions more every year
than they now doing
San Francisco has daily newspaper, the Journal that
conservative in physical appearance and in ed
toral tone bidding for favor on that basis 1t is beng