Show The health oftlie city nuiHt not bo on Iruslcd to lie ward politician worn made by the Republicu PledcoM I and iKelr gonoraf municipal exccutlvo that I Hip city in and thin department In purlieu r L should ho mumiged as a IniMliiutm propo sition rusnrdlcxs of politics It wow to ho xpoclod thai the Mavor would hrenk l thin pledge ho was put Into ofrtco I by professional poMtlulaiiB who make promfpo for tho sheer jlv o brBJiklng them and time Mayor has il ready Hhown that ho euros nothing l Lu anteelection ir lor obligations The above from the Herald In pure dirt except where It la pure Impudence The Herald kept up an Incessant war faro on every Republican In the city government before the present officers were elected kept Its warfare up with Chief Pratt for two years and dpclavod It was not personal Jt was simply poll tlcal aud If the i Democrats wereIn control con-trol of the city today it would Insist t t that every appointee down to janitors I should be Democratic As to pledges there was no pledge made except that the business should be run as a btiBl iicsa proposition There was no pledge I J In regard to politics at all and when It I snya it was expected that the Mayor would break this pledge that shows the pure dirt of the paper because the Mayor made no pledge Hence there i was none to break Again when It i says he was put Into office by profcs I slonal politicians thai ia another falsehood f false-hood There was not a professional j j j politician connected with his nomlnu ilion i-lion not une and If called upon to name tho people who make promises j I for the sheer Joy of breaking them I it would hove to admit that It was t simply lying Suppose Mr Barnes had been elected Mayor under the steering committee of which Mr Duubar was the head how many Republicans would have had anything That would not have been done by professional politicians politi-cians would If With the Heralds record for Justifying anything Demo j cratic no mailer what time understandIng understand-Ing was prior to election It Is in bad I lisLe for 11 lo criticise anything partisan par-tisan that may be done by the parly In J power And above all things when 11 I sloops to straightout falsehoods In order or-der In make Its criticisms it simply cams decent peoples contempt without humiliating in the least those whom It assails |