| Show LET THE LAW STAND Probably It is useless to urge the matter mat-ter but tho bill fixing the next term of city officers at three t I years In order to bring tho city I nnd State and Presidential elections to 1 I gethof should be killed That matter was considered with great care In the I I Constitutional convention the uvll 1 of bringing the excitements and partisanship f partisan-ship of general elections to bear upon the city election tho chance for Jobs and 5 trades were all carefully discussed and weighed and the convention at last almost al-most unanimously agreed that the elections elec-tions should be separated It Is possible that the present Legislature Is more able to grasp that question than was the Constitutional convention but so far the members who favor the change have advanced no arguments that were not fully considered and condemned In the convention Tlie conditions governing the one do not or ought not to correspond with theother One IB for State and Ifa tlonal < 1 Government and all the people peo-ple of the State are Interested the i other Is exclusively local and It often becomes a question simply of men and I their fitness for the ofilce they aspire to I I Then when the elections are brought together the natural thing Is to blend the two in a way to work Injustice upon the people Two men work together to-gether the one for Governor the other for Mayor and the labor is to bring together the friends of each to work for both when one may be fit for the place and the other totally unfit for the I other place The reasons can be greatly multiplied multi-plied why the law should stand as It Is thero la not one substantial reason why it should be changed Finally no I three years term of city officers should Indulged in even for once II I j I |
