The Mayor Is Discouraged

Wouldn't Be Re-elected for a Big Salary

THE PEOPLE UNGRATEFUL

Apparently He Does Not Like Public Reception of His Bonding Scheme

The mayor is getting more emphatic in his statements regarding the mayoralty campaign. Tuesday he said to the Argus: "If the office of mayor paid a big salary and I knew that I would have a long and honorable career in that office I would not longer put up with the petty annoyances and the necessary sacrifice of the time and energy." The mayor believes that he who holds the office of chief executive of this city must needs to sacrifice a good deal and that the people are very ungrateful. He says that the matter of bonding the city is or should be non-partisan and that it is the only way he sees out of the difficulty. He says that it is not a new debt that the city must pay off, but an old one. In truth the past administration and the present has been satisfactory to the mayor and he does not see why there should be any opposition to this little plan of his to get the city out of debt. Anyway, he says that is the bill is passed in the legislature it provides that no more money can be borrowed on it than the city actually requires. This is the position that Mayor Copeland takes now.