I for one am heartily sick of old underhand connection between city politics and the city papers.

If we can do anything to alter and elevate it, it will be a fine work, gentlemen, well worth whatever it costs us." * * * * * Thus after an hour or two of such discussion the Clean Government League found itself organized and equipped with a treasury and a programme and a platform.

The latter was very simple.

As Mr.Fyshe and Mr.Boulder said there was no need to drag in specific questions or try to define the action to be taken towards this or that particular detail, such as the hundred-and-fifty-year franchise, beforehand.

The platform was simply expressed as Honesty, Purity, Integrity.