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We haw hw-n askml so many times during the last tivo wwksnlmn! “our next mayor.n that the NEWS Venturw a suggestion. as u starter. wry much on the principal of the young fvllow down in Vermont. who lwgun show- ing attentions to Miss Jum- Blank. His father noticed itmudrenionstrur ml with his son. "she in not suitable for you. John. Jane is a nice girl and all of that, ’hut her social posi- tion. lu-r Hlucntion. MC, are: far lw» “Yes, l know. it fatlwr; but you know l alnll never marry n low yours: her. I only thought she Wuulll do to begin on. So the mntlidnh- we nanu- may not lw elvctml: in fact thv lust 'tinw we heard him speak (7n tlw Hulijo-ct. lw Huitl tlw position was a (logn‘ life. and he: (lid not want it. The candidate, we suggest is the “Green Mountain Boy.” He, might not run very well. uni he. is old enough to know better, but then he in “good enough to begin on." One thing can he, most assuredly said in lllH favor, he would he better than a worse (-mnlidute. and when it is a choice hetween evils, we go in for taking' the. lesser evil. This "Boy" has owned a home and lived here in the Park long enough to know the condition and needs of the city : he was here when the agitation for sew. ens lmgan and helped it along all he could: opposed the macadmnizing of Prospect and Laurel avenues in the expensive and imperfect manner proposed and done; 4 helped, to the extent of his ability. to get in the system of water worksr and sundry other impronnenta. H0 is not an rich as to by tln- poor. nor an ‘umr nhjvct of public chzuity. VOL V. OUR NEXT HAYOR. hp despised as N) ho 2m w-t. HP HIGHLAND PARK, ILL, DECEMBER 16, 1898. NO 3. wan reared un a farm and is neither afraid nnr a-hained of wurk; in faet he believers in the dignity 0f manual labur. with a shovel and a lunawhen» ever neeeanary. He alw believes in allowing the pruperty mvnere alung certain streets to improve the same in neenrdanee with the general plan (if the city when they wish to do 50, as in the caae of Vine avenue a few years ago. when one alderman 0p- puaed' it on the ground that it would establish a “bad prevalent." He fur» ther believes it was a great miatakie- in the city cunncil nut t4) allow" the Elm-tric street railway company to pave St Johns avenue, this last fall as they wanted to do, instead of com- pelling them to pave between their traeks‘ as the old ordinance provides, because. this would have given the city at once a good paved thorough- {are from the Sheridan road south. to Vine avenuv on the north: would have: satiqfied the abutting property owners as” to actual or possible Main); for damages; not, cost the city one dollar; would have puttheuion» ey where it would do the moi-it good [or all the public at, large. instead of pravtically wasting it on a paving lwtwven thv tracks which would do the company no good and render but little actual service to‘the public. This “Green Mounmiu Boy"; also lx-l‘vves that the city should go slow in running up taxes on the many for the benefit of the few: of making one man pay mom for! .300 gallons of water than anotlwr pays for 70” or 101M gallons: that the city should look out for its own working men, that it. should give the prefereuce in coutractn for labor to honest ‘uu-u who pa): tlmir hills. over humnwrs who dead heat all lhvy can: that (ramps and druukunls etv. should he made tu work. Such are some of the notions and qualifications of this “Boy." He is not mentioned because we expect you will elect him. but bonnething had to he said by the News to relieve the tension of the puhlic thought on this important subject. and he will make a good target for the critics to tire at. as it won't hurt him to he “killed off," and he “don’t know when he is licked." 1’. S. ~He has one other qualification. which HUIIIP people deem highly important, - he is et home all day, six and seven days in the week: not one of the Chicago fellows who just sleep in Highland Park. Now fire away, critica. and bring on your real candidates} the News will mention them one ani’l all at ”three dollars a head"! Don't read Dale Sweetland's full page “ad", if you do you will learn how and where to spend your money to the best advantage. and get just the things you want. Don’t forget the place. in Opera House block. “Dale" in a Park boy. by the way, and knows what in what. It may internal our peopleto know that Lord Roseberrynvho will he the new leader of the Liberal party, in England reacmhlea our Mr Merserealr very much in personal appearance. or you may put it the other way if you like. But Rosahorry'a picture strongly suggests our neighbor. Tho awoet sixtvvna in the parlor or the kitchvn who have swvet heart»: in the Fourth Infantry \Vllllif“, interest- ed in Ivarning thatthe regiment has been (mlerml to be ready to atarl at, an varly (lay fur Manila aml nthM [mints in the l’hillipinvq. [mints