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City Executive The Men by whom our city affairs are directed The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, December 9, 1888 pg. 1 R.S. LEGATE - ASSESSOR AND COLLECTOR R.S. Legate, city assessor and collector, is one of the few men whom nature has constituted with a special fitness for this complex work. He has a strong and healthy organism, an evenly poised temper, accurate judgement, is an untiring walker, and is not afraid of dogs. Added to these essential qualities he has a mathematical mind, a genius for system, and, to use the language of one of his admirers, is a veritable walking ready-reckoner. With all these qualities and virtues one might consider him sufficiently perfect, but to them he adds others that (his position considered) are infinitely more deserving of remark. He is honest, is content with what he eanrs, does not gaze upon the wine when it is red, and keeps a set of books which any intelligent man can understand, and whose equal for clearness and comprehensiveness of detail are not to be found in any other assessor and collector's office in the State. Mr. Legate was appointed in 1886 to fil the unexpired term of Phil M. Smith, the absconded city secretary, and his herculean work in straightening out the entanglements left by the doughty official is well remembered. At the city election of 1887 he was elected to the same office by acclamation, since which time Denison has felt a security in the possession of her revenue and the accuracy of her tax books to which she had long been a stranger. Mr. Legate has made no announcement of his intentions concerning another candidacy, but he will no doubt be strongly urged to accept renomination, which, should he do, there will be but little hope for his opponent. W.T. CUTLER - CITY MARSHAL W.T. Cutler, Denison's present city marshal, is an old timer, and a prominent figure-head in local politics. His first assumption of public office in this community was after the election of 1882, when he was elected Constable of Precinct No. 2. In this capacity he served with such eminent satisfaction that his friends believing in his fitness for a more important office placed his name in nomination for the Denison city marshalship at the municipal election of April 1885. To this office he was elected by a handsome majority, and again returned over a strong opponent - Mr. Ed. James - at the city election of 1887. In his official capacity he has displayed that ambitious promptitude of action, vigilance and fearless impartiality which the duties of the office so largely require, and it is no unmerited compliment to say that the peace of the city was never more perfect than under his rule. Mr. Cutler announces that he will be again a candidate for re-election at the coming election in April, when his claims for a third term in office should receive the attention to which his past record entitle them. T.E. KENNEDY - CITY SECRETARY Mr. T.E. Kennedy, city secretary, like his co-contemporary in the assessor and colletor's chari, was first placed in the office as the appointee to fill out the unexpired term of an absconding predecessor. Secretary Radcliff, previous to his nocturnal departure for Mexico, had place his accounts in the usual "queer" condition and to Mr. Kennedy was given the task of straightening them. In this he was so successful that, upon his offering for office at the April election of 1887, he was returned by a large majority over a number of strong candidates. His term in office has been once marked by exceptional accuracy and clearness in the city's records and accounts, and it is safe to say that of a number of able men who, in the past, have filled this office, none have been more satisfactory. Mr. Kennedy has distinguished himself as an able accountant and painstaking official and should he decided to ask a second term in office the people will do well to consider his record, and the chances for improvement, before they cast their ballot against him. Personally, Mr. Kennedy is an affable and courteous gentleman, and is universally esteemed by all who know him. 
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