Show THE NEW MAYORS HARD TASK An committee of Amer has J named VT V S J Halloran to succeed Ezra as mayor maor of Salt Lake and handed the nomination In to the majority of the party In Iii the council with an urgent don that he be elected by that bod body Of the nomination Itself nothing but good can b be said mUd Is clean and He probably would rather es escape ape the of flee than accept it and It Is an evidence of his devotion to the city that he Is willing to make the acceptance Although The Herald be feves his party Is an unnecessary and amI InjurIous political factor a flat fiat failure In office it regards the selection as fortunate for the city so long Ions as Mme is certain to be chosen hosen At this writing It Is by no means tah that the coUncil leaders of whom Black Dlack and Crabtree are the th most con conspicuous conspicuous will accept the recommendation lion tion of the executive committee Black himself lf has hail had an unaccountable no notion nolion lion tion that he was wa to the place rd mJ Black Crabtree Davis and Martin Mar Martin tin have had a little syndicate of their that would be handicapped in its operations by the election of an an honest independent and discriminating mayor maor If the pressure brou brought ht upon them IS strong enough to whip them into line fr Halloran it will be a distinct gain for decent honest ell city government and anda a marked contrast to the kind of ad administration administration ministration the city has ben getting Even Een if they are compelled unwillingly to ol elect ct Mr Ir Halloran the Black syndicate with the allies they can corn com command mand in the council may be depended upon to the lew mayor maor at Every turn of the road If he Interferes with their same game His first business will be the of the police pollee d department Sheets is gone Raleigh has retired but Mulvey ulvey still remains in the council as evidence that the malodorous memory of the old police pollee regime has not been disinfected entirely The acting chief John Burbidge is a good man and r but he has not been In favor r with the Americans and It is unlikely he be either promoted or left In ae ac Uc live charge of the department rn er the circumstances the police pollee free cannot be efficient or well or organized organized until some one Is chosen to sue suc CeNI Sheets who will reorganize the whole department The selection of this man will be the first real toof of the new mayors political al acumen as aswell well velI as of the support he may expect from the councilmen who have hereto fre controlled the city administration and would hike Uke to continue In control A knowledge of the conditions that have haye p prevailed prom lees trouble for the WW mayor maor at the outset and on his solution of the will depena much of the success or failure of the new mayors administration for the few months that remain to this term While this police pollee matter Is the chief political problem the finances a more serious and important questIon Mr Halloran will ivill be con confronted confronted fronted in ca case of his election with the of a deficIt at the close chose of the year unless ho he has courage enough and strength enough to compel a drastic immediate reform In the management of tIle the finances Hf H is too conservative a business businessman man to the to continue its pr prent ent extravagant and wasteful ox It If he be recognizes the real reah of the PolitIcal exigency may impel him to let Jet the council so go ahead spending money with without without out regard to the Income and re but If he has the r rd of the credit which ho he maybe may be supposed t tI have lie ho will cut off the unnecessary veto every proposal l to waste on extravagances and brin bring the business affairs of the city down to bed rock The best of Salt Lake Lalta would find it difficult to handle such problems lems as mayor inherits even If ho he had competent honest support in inthe inthe the council wIth a majority dominated by Black Back and Mulvey and and MartIn any mayors task is going to tobe tobe be doubly difficult It not Impossible of r accomplIshment H If Mr Ml Halloran as assumes assUmeS the ilie 13 irden he will be entitled to the support of every every good citizen regardless of party And 1 If he falls as asis asis is not improbable the people will wUl know that the American party Is responsible sible that under Its control good gov government government Ic fi impossible In the future as asit asit it has been impossible under Thompson and Sheets and the and tIle BUlCk syndicate In iii Ute the nast |