| Show HARD JOl CHIEF DEVIN Mayor MaJor o of f a Nos For Assistant J Chief HE MUST BE A REPUBLICA ONLY OXLY o THE lOB JO JOt to t MAYOR Yest an effectual quitt J h of Se Secretary Ch t Wood Wd of tile the IN fire to chief to which was waa apP Couple of by bJ Chief Devise and hl conf city j t council as to Chief ss McCarthy r A to the law the mayors cut CUI In 10 the refusal i tIon nullifies the chiefs and run I and th the ell clis action the POint I o or o vetoing TIle The rea on by t le for ia his hia he be deemed the Ua position to r Proposed to advance Wood wd tOt to at ant to be by a whose hose f leal Ical belief is DOt io in ID a aci rord held by the t apPOinting and I J head of tile the In 1 t atlon atio Mayor Thom Thompson n eta Wood had bad admitted to him not DOt a that be i claiming to t i independent The ii exe ti stated that several J of t le m mea Il F the council committee to appointment vh J i had bad been n not have Ie wr had they not DOt considered W coni na publican iI r ClaW and Sorry Chief Devise said eald he was to overcome with mu e arid and r gr give to his ns V the subject or to Indicate eh next move will be He cO ever to be no quoted as laying I Is the first time any of hio ap oj menta or promotions have been t down and that he be could not it r a man in the department who give him Ute the Wood 1 able of giving as aa his bis principal a ant Politicians In the city It dl cued the Incident of yet freely and not DOt a few of them that they knee the tIte real r reason asin a I lag B the mayor In declining art after r t consenting to concur n proposition to malts make a chief They lay it to tb fear Or part of the executive that hf r L might resign soon and m in that eler ev r would be hard bard to prevent on r becoming Devines n successor iut the mayor IS not Invite the it IC itman man who is not in tI the Republican machine in lin line s O chieftaincy of the tire fire Woods Wood ne Record In Woods behalf it is that tha r L LIs jg Is representative of the C civil yil s the fire department where p consIderatIons are supposed t ti 10 secondary importance to th t of and faithful service Ht H U L worked I his way up from the rL after a period of eight par yar W n not claiming to be a la assured the mayor it is him ip 18 both of o hi 01 a ThoSe w know hm him da 1 that they the would ne never er hit hIE i alty to Mends and I Wood Is Ia still stin acting assistant rh c cof of the fire department ar el ill Ii bI bly remain so for an P |
