Show A MISDIRECTED APPROPRIATION Mayor Bransford with wit a a spirit that thatis that thatis is most commendable commendable will leave leo the latter part of at the week for tor a tour of ot otome some ome of at the Important cities of at the te east cast with a view to studying municipal Im Ira Improvements 1 I This indicates s that tat the mayor expects expect to t be nominated by the te American city convention and ad elect elected elected elected ed by the people The Te voters voter are a more moretha than tha likely to decide otherwise but the fact act In no way lessens the mayors mayor I good god Intent Intent If I he is defeated at the te tj polls he will wi be all al tho the bitter better citizen I lor tor or knowing kowing something about how a n aI I city should be governed Accompanying Mayor Bransford wl will willbe willbe be Councilmen Councilman Mulvey and ad Tuddenham Tuddenham Tuddenham ham The mayor may r pays his own ex expenses expenses the te council has ha appropriated towards the expenses of ot Tuddenham it ham ha and Mulvey In view of ot the fact I that neither Mulvey ulvey nor Tuddenham Is even to be b a candidate for tion this appropriation seems to be badly baly misdirected There Ther can be no value to the city officially speaking from sending Mulvey and Tuddenham whose terms tens will wl expire exire early In Jan January January a auar uary on a tour of ot the east east We know of course coure that the tho 20 ap appropriated appropriated will vill lack a good god deal of pay payIng Ing all aU of their perfectly legitimate ex expenses expenses expenses k Railroad and Pullman fares fars 1 alone will wi require practically the entire 14 amount And It is not so much the money as the principle of ot aiding ading two councilmen to enjoy a junket that can cannot cn cannot not be of value to the city to which we object There Ther could have been little reasonable objection to sending Coun Councilman cilman Holley Holey and Ferry or any other holdover councilmen on the trip In their cases it i would be perfectly reasonable to say sa that that the information they would acquire would be of ot sum sufficient t dent value during the Ule more mora than two years they the are to serve sere to Justify the gift gif from the city towards their ex cx expenses e No private Individual would 1 send a man about to be discharged on ona ona ona a trip to secure information of ot value to the individual or corporation and of ot value only because It could be used during a future period of service Such Sucha 1 I a private citizen or corporation would be laughed laughe at atThe atThe a aThe The Herald Herld has always contended that the tha business of a municipality should be b as administered by bythe the tiie servants sn ants of the people as is the business of ot an individual or corpora corporation coror corporation tion ton by those most Interested And It Itis ItIs itis is an absolute certainty that the information information mation to be acquired by Mulvey ulvey and d Tuddenham partly party at the expense of ot the city dt can never be of or value to the city except in the more or less remote con contingency contingency contingency of their being elected to of office office fice again in the distant future |