Show pAYING PARTY DEBTS Mayor Thompsons police appoint appointments nets ments by George Ge rge Sheets the new chief of police talk for themselves Ostensibly Ostensibly Ostensibly bly the men removed were dismissed for the good of the service in reality re lity they were forced out of the department to make way for American party workers and place the police depart department department ment nent in i line Une with the other departments of or the city as part of the political ma machine m chine being built up for the personal befit b of the American party lead leaders leaders ers As Mayor Thompsons personal organ c gan puts it not altogether truthfully but very naively The UThe fact is they were not removed because they are arem members m of the dominant dom nant church but be because ause thy they th y were not in sympathy with the American party perty Hitherto the Salt Lake police and fire departments have been kept free of partisan politics in a large degree Tle The only marked exception has been Sheets who is now made chief as a reward for partisan and personal services ics ices ic Entirely disregarding merit or long and and faithful services Sheets has hast t begun his old policy in using the force forcer r as a political machine and his ap appointees appointees appointees may be expected to t follow his system to the utmost limit Some of the appointees are fairly decent one or two of ot them are a stench In the nos nostrils nostrils nostrils of decent people all them are given position not because of fitness or capacity but because the Amen Ameri American can party is indebted to them for po political political political goods delivered that must mut be paid for forThe forThe forThe The appointment of Vail VaU as chief of oft the t e fire department is as good as might Wave 11 ve been expected from Thompson There was no question as to the ability or effectiveness of Bywater the incumbent incumbent Incumbent bent every insurance man in the city recognized him as the best fire chief Salt Lake has ever had and the busi business business ness flees men of the community wished him retained solely because of of the rec record ord he had made in the department dep Vails Installation as Bywaters sue suc successor cessor is notice to the men of the de department department department that faithfulness SS efficiency and discipline have nothing to do with tenure of office that to be retained in inthe inthe inthe the department it is only necessary to tobe tobe I Ibe be an American The sort of de department i such a 8 rule will ill produce can c n nhe be he foreseen without any special l pro prophetic prophetic prophetic vision Taken as a whole the policy of the reform party Is pretty well wen outlined now and arid the people of Sat Salt Lake who ho hov voted v ted for f r Thompson and reform reforms know what hat tv e ty y may expect under his administration for tor the next two years A partisan partie pa pUce police force forca a fire depart department department ment filled tilled with heelers and ruled by bya a political pull the street treet department utilized for the payment of campaign c debts d and every eVly other lep dep ad administered administer administered ministered minister for political purposes In view v ew of the disorganization of the city d and the obvious pur purpose purpose purpose pose of k r isn t it about time tinte the e J f merica mer 4 t machine aban abandoned abandoned abandoned lis pretense of reform and yawed avowed openly what everybody ev knows that it means to run the city for the benefit of the machine without any re regard regard regard gard to business principles G |