Show The News last night urged the independent dependent position of the Councilmen pleaded that they are and ought to be free to act for the best Interests of the city and on their own convictions without any ono calling them to account count That is correct only so far as n 1 goes and will fit tho case As we said yesterday the late municipal election elec-tion In this city was a straight party tight IL was won bv the Republicans The Republican party is and will beheld be-held responsible for tho administration at f the affairs of this city for the current cur-rent term Eleven of the fifteen members mem-bers of the Council are Republicans In their places because the Republican party put them there For them now to renounce their party allegiance and act with the Democrats falsifies the wholes whole-s It makes It Impossible for the Republican party to do what It is lodged to do that party is defeated in Us own household and without power to remedy evils Is held accountable for those evils and at the next city eloc ion will have to account to the people for errors which Its own officials reused fused to remedy It Is idle to talk about the individual acting on his own csponslblllty In this matter The responsibility re-sponsibility is dual to the public ando and-o the party and for a few of the party to deny the partys authority while the partY responsibility Is plain and say that they have a greater Interest Inter-est In the citys welfare or are better able to promote that welfare by Joining with the Democracy Is i both trumpery egotism and party treason It Is Impossible Im-possible that n fragment of the party hould have a higher or more Intelligent Intelli-gent Interest In the welfare of the city than the majority of the party has while to plead that this welfare Is best to be advanced by a union with the Democratic officials of whom the people elected so few because they did not want them In control Is to say in effect that the city Is safer in Democratic than in 1 Republican hands But to say this iso is-o give the people a slap > in the face for the voters emphatically pronounced against that view at the polls last November |