Show IIEA1RD OX THE STREET In commerce when a number of men unite to prevent the natural operation of the laws of trade for their own emolument emol-ument they are said to form a trust The position assumed by the six obstructionist ob-structionist members of the city council coun-cil is precisely the same except that in one case property and in the other case the rights guaranteed by the ballot are involved Is it not just as bad for a man to prevent a free ballot as it is to prevent a free execution of the decree of that ballot Cs As the city council was organized last year is had a working majority of Democrats Dem-ocrats Nevertheless those memberfa showed the fair mindedness of the members on at least two occasions They confirmed the mayors appointments appoint-ments without once resorting to the mean device of low ward politicians Again a Republican member of the council died It was then in their power pow-er to elect another member from their own party They had a good precedent for such action furnished them by their own Republican colleagues for when Shirjn resigned the Republicans east their votes for James Cassin a Republican Repub-lican although Shinn was a Democrat Nevertheless the Democratic members when Mr Farrell died promptly elected elect-ed a Republican H C Wadleigh to fill the unexplred term Now this same man H C Wadleigh president of this council is doing all in his power to make the administration of Mr Spencer Spen-cer a failure and Mr Spencer was president pres-ident of the very council which furnished fur-nished him this example of nonpartisanship nonparti-sanship Republicans are ungrateful The government of a city is a business busi-ness and should be conducted on strictly strict-ly busines methods It is just as un businesslike to let the circumstance of a man being a Democrat or a Republican Republi-can debar him from working for the city as it would be to let such a circumstance cir-cumstance debar him from working for a corporation |