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TO THE PUBLIC: “*8 y= I am a candidate for Mayor Lima. I have lived in Lima for 25 years. During the last 23 years I have been an em ploye of five different railway, and traction com panies. I have been one of the ninety percent of our citizens who earn their living by working for a corporation or company. I have received a salary of $140 per month from the O. E. Ry. when I resigned recently. This was an increase of 12 per cent over what I was paid five years ago. I have never had jurisdiction over nor a dol lar invested in any Lima public utility. I always paid my electric light bills and street car fare of my family the same as other citizens and patrons. These are truths frankly, spoken. Now to the point. My election as Mayor is not sought, and to my knowledge, not desired by any public utility. Not a dollar shall be asked or accepted from any such utility in my campaign. I firmly and truthfully say that I am abs lutely free from entanglement with, or obliga tion to, any corporation, machine or clique. I solemnly declare that if I am honored with this public trust that I shall serve the people with heart, conscience and intelligence to the fullest measure of my ability. If elected, my experience will enable me to actively and exactingly secure available results from our public utilities; to this I pledge myself heartily and sincerely. Words must be supported by past records. More than 1,500 voters in Lima have known me personally for ten to forty years. Ask them. Get from them my record as to honesty, firmness, diligence, patriotism and public spiritedness. You will not have to go far to find out. I ask of you to do this rather than to accept deliberately devised propaganda that is intended only to keep in power, at all costs, the present boss-wielded machine. With your permission I will put a “monkey wrench” in this machine and provide a new broom for City Hall. ‘ Think it over. Wask it over. Use the ballot. Very sincerely yours, ¥ F. A. BURKHARDT.
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Lima Times Democrat
Lima, Ohio, US
Mon, Oct 06, 1919
Page 5
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