Show I CONCEHUING POLITICAL MACHINES I MA-CHINES I Difeojcisiur the relations of the mayor 1 a li the council the TieseretN wi says If the issue is to be joined between apolitical a-political machine on theone hand and the people through the man whom they elected mayor on the other snow s-now seems inevitable it is the ardent wish of the News that the machine be defeated at every point and that the form of rule be maintained in thIs city which Is provided by law l and lain I la-in harmony with American institutions i institu-tions j I j That is very rich indeed From this one would infer that the mayor alone j i was elected by the people while inem hers of the city council were not It i might also be inferred from what our j i evening contemporary says that all the i people voted for the mayor but he received re-ceived in reality a good deal less than half the votes was in fact elected by a minority of the people i I But the reference to the machine Is the richest of all The mayor was nominated nom-inated by a machine the same kind of a commercial machine in politics described f de-scribed in the February Atlantic Avery A-very prominent member of this machine ma-chine asked the mayor to make a certain nomination and the mayor did It wouldnt be machine politics if the mayor should try and make a dicker with members of the council for their votes in behalf of a certain gentlemans confirmation whose name the mayor is anxious to submit to the council For the mayor to suggest if members of the council wished him to make a certain appointment it would be understood under-stood that they were to vote for the confirmation of another nominee there would be no machine politics in this Members of the councilarehaving their eyes opened as to practical politics by the nonpartisan mayor In a way that makes them stand aghast If the onslaughts upon them for insisting upon a due regard for their legal rights are persisted in they may yet be goaded to opening their mouths as to certain matters up to this time known onv to themselves and the I mayor For dickers deals and deviltry commend com-mend us to nonpartisans every time < |