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Show -243the group. the When the resolutions city officials had personally stockade and the saloons. the on read the benefitted implication by These resolutions reaffirmed record feeling as was clear that the existence of the of Americanism which had been original principles but the group went were to allegiance adopted 1904, in that certain elements and de- partments of the city government had abandoned these principles and not in accord with the adopted policies original tenets of the party. The group resolved: That gambling den, stockade, or other place of ill repute be, or become a financial asset to any party or adminis tration, or of officials elected or appointed by any party We declare ourselves unalterably opposed to that notorious den of infamy known as the stockade, and pledge ourselves to un ceasing effort to accomplish its abolition. no shall • Resolutions Bransford and the also were city adopted which directly • . . struck at Mayor administration: having no desire to evade our just share of the re sponsibility for the election of the present administration, we declare our unyielding opposition to some of the policies adopted, promulgated and carried out by the executive head of While the municipal government.18 Following ford this meeting the Herald-Republican wrote that Brans- the Jonah of the American was party ship. It would be necessary to heave him overboard before the troubled waters could be calmed and the whole party saved from foundering with all on board. Said the Re- publican: Two years ago John S. Bransford was popularly believed to be better than his party today John S. Bransford has fallen • so low, politically, reverence most •••• The becoming thing • • none so poor as to do him the of Bransford is repudiation the American Party has ever done. 9 that there is probybly |
