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 FOR MAYOR, 
 
 SAMUEL A. GREEN, 
 
 City Election, December 12, 1882. 
 
 Polls Open at 7, A. M. 
 Polls Close at 4, P- M. 
 
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 STATEMENT OF FACTS. 
 
 Every honest citizen is aware of the impor- 
 tance of keeping Municipal affairs separate from 
 political influences. It was on a platform which 
 had this principle as a basis that Dr. Green was 
 nominated a year ago, and it must be evident to 
 all who have watched the course of City affairs 
 that he has been, eminently faithful to the trust. 
 Never has the public business been conducted 
 with a greater freedom from partisan action. 
 The Mayor has been straight-forward, inde- 
 pendent, and governed solely by the wish to do 
 what was best for the welfare of the community. 
 He has never acted in deference to the schemes 
 of any faction. He has been neither a Demo- 
 crat nor a Republican. He has not hampered 
 the heads of departments by requests to find 
 places for favorites of his own, but has allowed 
 them to perform their duties without executive 
 
interference. In his appointments, he has not 
 removed officials except for adequate cause, and, 
 to our knowledge, no instance can be shown 
 where the successor and the superseded have 
 belonged to different parties. The Corridors of 
 City Hall have ceased to be a lounging place for 
 politicians, and the Municipal affairs have been 
 managed soundly, quietly, and honestly. What 
 more do our citizens desire? And is it not of 
 vital importance that such a man should remain 
 in office? What is the alternative? 
 
 The alternative is an avowed party administra- 
 tion of municipal affairs. It is the professed 
 desire of a particular faction to obtain possession 
 of the City Government, as a means of political 
 capital. They want to use the public offices as 
 rewards for the services of their friends. So 
 shrewd an observer as Mr. Hugh J. Toland (who 
 was recently defeated in his partisan movement 
 to oust from office our present Register of Deeds) 
 remarks : " The Democratic party are in a 
 majority in this City, and ought to have the 
 patronage; and they are bound to have it, too !" 
 There is the whole situation in a nut-shell. They 
 want to turn out a man who has been honest, and 
 
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capable, and acceptable to the community, from 
 his very indifference to party politics, in order 
 that they may have a Mayor and Board of Alder- 
 men who will see to it that only citizens of a 
 certain stripe have any rights that need redress- 
 ing. Do the inhabitants of Boston wish this? 
 Do they wish to see the management of our 
 finances, and taxes, and most vital interests, pass 
 out of the control of experienced and faithful 
 officials into that of persons who will be expected 
 to use the positions for all they are worth politi- 
 cally? If so, let them vote in favor of a partisan 
 City Government, for the motto of this political 
 movement is "a clean sweep of offices." 
 
 No one in either party can point to an instance 
 of partisan behavior on the part of Dr. Green. 
 He has pursued the course of making no dis- 
 tinctions of any kind. All classes of citizens, 
 all nationalities, have been alike to him. "Show 
 me a first-class man, that's what I want," has 
 been his unfailing comment. Such names as 
 Michael Carney, Registrar of Voters, John E. 
 Fitzgerald, of the Fire Commission, Dexter 
 A. Tompkins, Sealer of Weights and Measures, 
 Dr. Jenks and Mr. Burley, of the Police 
 
Commission, testify to the fact that he has been 
 scrupulously regardless of party affiliations in 
 his appointments. 
 
 The act of primary importance on the part 
 of his administration has been the removal of 
 Police Commissioners, a proceeding which gave 
 great satisfaction to almost all citizens. The 
 Mayor illustrated thereby his complete indepen- 
 dence, and disappointed the expectation of some 
 who desired to find in him an amiable figure- 
 head. The blow fell none too soon, for it is an 
 open secret that the bill introduced in the State 
 Legislature, to establish a Metropolitan Police, 
 would certainly have been pushed to a passage, 
 but for this prompt action. Owing to a preva- 
 lent feeling of dissatisfaction regarding the police 
 administration of the Cit}^ a special Committee 
 of the City Council had been appointed to 
 investigate the subject. This Committee had 
 submitted a majority report recommending the 
 removal of the Commissioners, and this report 
 was referred by the Council to the Mayor for 
 action. After a careful reading of the evidence, 
 and a thorough further inquiry on his part, 
 he decided to remove the Commissioners. In 
 
answer to the objections of some, that the 
 Mayor should have given the officials thus 
 dismissed an opportunity for personal explana- 
 tion, it may be said that, at their examination 
 before the Committee, every facility was offered 
 them for so doing, and Dr. Green was satisfied 
 after reading the evidence that to give currency 
 to the same would be injurious to the public 
 morals. 
 
 The conduct of affairs by the new board of 
 Police Commissioners has given general satis- 
 faction. After the looseness of the previous 
 reghiie it is but natural that complaints of strin- 
 gency should be heard in certain quarters ; but 
 those most interested testify to the unfailing 
 justice and honesty of the Commission. The 
 laws as they exist have been carried out without 
 favoritism, and is not that what our citizens 
 desire from those who control the police regula- 
 tions of the City ? It is a significant fact that 
 the receipts from liquor licenses for 1882-83 
 show, up to date, an excess of $22,034 over 
 the same period the preceding year. The num- 
 ber of licenses issued by the present board has 
 been about the same, but those of a more expen- 
 
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 sive class (innholders'), show a marked diminu- 
 tion. This item of Finance is more eloquent 
 than words. 
 
 But apart from considerations of his use- 
 fulness and independence in public affairs, who 
 does not know the warm sympathy and broad 
 Catholic kindness of our Mayor in private fields? 
 For ten years City Physician, he has probably 
 a more intimate knowledge of the poor, and 
 a firmer hold upon their heart-strings, than any 
 man in the community. His home is, and has 
 been for a long period, in Kneeland Street, and 
 there, in the very midst of the suffering classes, 
 he has ever been ready to listen to any tale of 
 sorrow or discouragement, answer any request 
 for counsel or comfort from the lips of the needy. 
 He is widely known and respected as a physi- 
 cian of high standing and experience, and a 
 critical scholar in various lines of research. In 
 the War of the Rebellion, he served as a Surgeon 
 with distinction, and his name is to-day a syn- 
 onym with his army comrades for all that is 
 most endearing. Many an old soldier counts 
 Dr. Green among his most precious friends. 
 He most worthily represents that integrity, 
 
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chanty, and patriotism typical of our best New 
 England life. 
 
 Boston is one of the few cities that has remained 
 free from the evils of "boss" government. The 
 " spoils system " has thus far always been rebuked 
 by our votes. We are this year threatened with 
 an avowed attempt to introduce partisan rule in 
 this municipality, which, once established, it will 
 be difficult to eradicate. All good citizens 
 should rally at the Polls upon Election Day, 
 and, by voting for Dr. Samuel A. Green, save 
 our City from this menaced misfortune. Every 
 ballot is of value, for defeat means the overthrow 
 of pure government in Boston. 
 
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 The undersigned, feeling a deep interest in 
 the preservation of the good name of the City 
 of Boston, and in a clean and reputable adminis- 
 tration of Municipal affairs, appeal to all their 
 fellow-citizens, regardless of party, to rally to 
 the support of our present efficient Mayor, Dr. 
 Samuel A. Green, at the Polls on Tuesday, 
 December 12th. 
 
 CHARLES A. WELCH. 
 WM. ENDICOTT, Jr. 
 ^HENRY L. HIGGINSON. 
 JAMES STURGIS. 
 BERNARD JENNY. 
 NELSON BARTLETT. 
 THOS. J. WHIDDEN. 
 ROGER WOLCOTT. 
 FRED. PEASE. 
 JONA. A. LANE. 
 CLINTON VILES. 
 HAMILTON A. HILL. 
 GEO. WM. BOND. 
 GEO. L. THORNDIKE. 
 WM. H. BALDWIN. 
 CHAS. H. ALLEN. 
 E. E. PARKER. 
 GEO. BATY BLAKE. 
 HUTCHINS & WHEELER. 
 
 HENRY P. KIDDER. 
 
 GEO. C. RICHARDSON. 
 
 HENRY L. PIERCE. 
 
 HENRY W. DANIELL. 
 
 JACOB A. DRESSER. 
 
 ALEX. WADSWORTH. 
 
 URIEL CROCKER. 
 
 JOEL GOLDTHWAIT & CO. 
 
 A. L. HASKELL & SON. 
 
 S. T. SNOW. 
 
 PHINEAS PIERCE. 
 
 SOLOMON CARTER. 
 
 J. W. BALCH. 
 
 W. H. FORBES. 
 
 M. R. WENDELL. 
 
 GEO. WIGGLESWORTH. 
 
 HENRY LEE. 
 
 HUGH COCHRANE. 
 
 HENRY WHITMAN. 
 
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 RICE, KENDALL & CO. 
 JAMES L. LITTLE. 
 S. P. DEXTER. 
 SAMUEL C. COBB. 
 GEO. HIGGINSON. 
 JOHN JEFFRIES. 
 N. P. HAMLIN. 
 J. B. THOMAS. 
 EDWARD S. TOBEY. 
 O. W. PEABODY. 
 JOHN C. PHILLIPS. 
 S. W. RICHARDSON. 
 HENRY B. ROGERS. 
 THOMAS MACK. 
 E. FARNSWORTH. 
 ISAAC SWEETSER. 
 JOHN C. ROPES. 
 JOHNSON, MOODY & CO. 
 FREDERICK D. ALLEN. 
 GEORGE N. BLISS, Jk. 
 CHAS. A. SPAULDING. 
 J. B. POTTER. 
 EMERY SOUTHER. 
 E. G. KNIGHT. 
 CLAFLIN & BROl^N. 
 GEO. W. CHAPIN. 
 GEORGE DUNBAR. 
 GEO. D. EDMANDS. 
 WARREN SAWYER. 
 BENJ. F. STEVENS. 
 WM. GRAY. 
 
 NASH, SPAULDING & CO. 
 WILLIAM PERKINS. 
 THOS. B. HARRIS. 
 LEE, HIGGINSON & CO. 
 CHARLES FAIRCHILD. 
 H. C. WAINWRIGHT. 
 WILLIAM P. KUHN. 
 GEORGE THACHER. 
 F. L. RICHARDSON. 
 E. L. TEAD. 
 
 B. W. NICHOLS. 
 
 C. 0. BILLINGS. 
 CHARLES B. CUMINGS. 
 GEORGE A. KETTELL. 
 JOHN C. HOWE. 
 ALBERT MORSE. 
 
 E. DALE. 
 
 R. GARDNER CHASE. 
 JAMES DANA. 
 W. G. RUSSELL. 
 NORTH, FISKE & CO. 
 J. R. BROWNELL. 
 PAUL F. FOLSOM. 
 PIERCE, HARDY & CO. 
 CHAS. H. HOOPER. 
 ALBERT METCALF. 
 JOS. M. GIBBENS. 
 JOHN HOMANS. 
 
 F. C. LORING. 
 
 E. LAWRENCE, Jr. 
 DWIGHT FOSTER. 
 
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 For Mayor, ™^^^^^^ 065 578 8< 
 
 SAMUEL A. GR^^x^. 
 
 For Aldermen, 
 
 DANIEL D. KELLY. ANDREW J. HALL. 
 
 JOSEPH CALDWELL. JESSE HOLBROOK. 
 
 WILLIAM J. WELCH. PAUL H. KENDRICKEN. 
 
 LUCIUS SLADE. NATHAN G. SMITH. 
 
 THOMAS N. HART. SOLOMON B. STEBBINS. 
 
 CHARLES H. HERSEY. LABAN PRATT. 
 
 For Street Commissioner, 
 
 NEWTON TALBOT. 
 
 For School Committee, 
 
 Three Years. 
 F. LYMAN WINSHIP. LIBERTY D. PACKARD. 
 JAMES A. FLEMING. E. F. SPAULDING. 
 
 GEORGE M. HOBBS. DAN S. SMALLEY. 
 
 GEORGE B. HYDE. WILLIAM C. WILLIAMSON. 
 
 Two Years. 
 Mrs. EMILY A. FIFIELD. 
 
 Election, Tuesday, Decemter 12, 1882. 
 
 Polls open at 7, A. M. 
 Polls close at 4, P. M, 
 
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