| Show THE explanation the defense which the herald makes tor for mr air dale dal la Is a a auckly one when mr dale saya pays he be has no ATI RT levance evance or ill reeling feeling ho he raises a question ot of veracity between himself and another who quite as high in the estimation of f this ihli community as ai a i loss mr dale ind and in addition he without being aware of the fact evidently gives himself away alray nheu he declares that his ole gole object la Is to resolve a legal doubt as to w whether beth or not the office would bo be vacated at the expiration ot of the terms term 5 of the members of 0 the present city administration that if 1 there Is 1 any scheme on foot to permit the chief to hold over lie is 1 bound to frustrate it 11 not because of any pique or disappointment but beci because bf cause use lie he do doea not bellevo in holdover hold over oli off leers cera surely the memory of sir mr dale la Is most detective defective ills resolution of lai last tuesday d directly I 1 provides for the holding over of 0 the entire fire department and of tile alie entire police department except the chief that shows allows what that mr dale was really aiming at better ill cliftn a n a whole column of lame explanations could Is I 1 it any borso for or the police chief to hold over than tor for tile th fire chief does anyone believe that it if in lieu of 0 chief pratt tome home democratic friend of 0 I 1 air r dale was waa chief lie would suddenly feel such an antipathy for holdovers the idea li Is ridiculous and the conclusion Is irresistible that mr air dale vi as not honest in ills lame explanation through the democratic organ orean it II la is in keeping with the way lay lie he obtained the nomination for or mayor on that day when he ed his nomination democrats who hod had long been his fast friends declared that it was waa only I 1 through unparalleled treachery that hy he succeeded in this resolution which he be sprung upon the council last tuesday night his malice toward chief pratt Is madle made clear and his attempted explanation 0 of his motives in presenting that resolution taken in connection with the resolution itself would convict hirn him of double dealing before a jury of 0 ute indians that explanation moreover supplies the direct testimony that NA when hen he says hla his resolution carries no personal ill feeling toward chief pratt his assertion 15 but a contemptible equivocation utterly unworthy the m man an an and d the honors which this city has conferred upon him moreover we reassert anti and can prove the truth t 1 11 I 1 of 01 the statement that ho he has ha openly do declared his determination to down chief pratt and has ha given its as ft a reason that the tha chief opposed his election last autumn we know nothing of the purposes of the incoming administration or any of its branches but we assume that in 1 all I departments there Is 13 a thorough contempt of many of the methods that have pre prevailed during tho the past two years of which the resolution of sir mr I 1 dale Is it a vIc viciously lowly fair air sample the resolution le Is bad enough mr dales pretended explanation of it only the moro more clearly demonstrates the treacherous and cowardly motive behind it and emphasizes the truth of what wo we stated in a a former article that when hen he I 1 presented it he was using his official position and tho the power of a public I 1 onice office to gratify a personal onal spite and to wreak a dishonorable personal revenge upon a man tor for simply honorably exercising hla his american privilege of free speech finally we ret reiterate erato that the petty scheme will utterly tall fail |
