Show SUCH UNSELFISH SOLICITUDEI I The Herald to gratify n contemptible partisanship kept the police and lire departments in a state of chaos for two I or three years at least It J did its I part There were somo people outsiders out-siders that hIped i but they got their Inspiration from tho Herald Finally a Democratic Legislature took both departments out of their independent inde-pendent places and made them a part of the political machine of this region The object was If it was possible to carry an election to lire every Republican can that had any kind of a position in cither department There are some Republicans In the Council who think that Inasmuch as the Democracy insisted in-sisted upon making both departments part of a political machine Inasmuch as they know thoroughly well that If the Democrats were In power the Republicans Re-publicans In both those departments would not Jast a day i would be right II should the medicine which tho Democrats Demo-crats fixed to prescribe to Republicans be administered in moderate doses to the Democrats l The Herald Is furious I aces nothing but disaster ahead If such partisan methods arc tobe complied com-plied with The only wonderful thing I about it Is I that even the Herald has the cheek the unmitigated gal and the j superhuman cussedness to find fault I with an arrangement of that kind considering what I has done in the past For Instance four years ago I this fall the Republicans gave the Democrats the State by an overwhelming overwhelm-ing majority In an unexpected moment mo-ment of unnatural for IO gratitude it once intimated that the Democrats should remember the Republicans that i had helped them to the gigantic victory r vic-tory But in n few weeks the only 1 Republicans left in the entire array I of county and city officers was a clerk I that the superior in the office could i not get along without and one stenographer steno-grapher n young lady who wa a little i uncertain about her politics as she was not quite sure whether she was going to marry a Democrat or Republican Repub-lican That was the reward which the Republicans got for giving the Democrats I I crats full control of Utah And now this skulking Journal is horrified at the prospect of having a few Democrats I I I turned out of the police and fire departments 1 I partments and having their places sup f j I plied with Republicans I affects to believe that the city wuuld be In I I danger that those departments would be entirely demoralized those departments depart-ments that the Herald tried Its xit most for years to demoralize I Is only another proof that there Is no such thing as principle In the outfit I is simply a blind partisan Teady to support sup-port anything that Is called Democratic Demo-cratic ready to crush out anything that Is not |