| Show A TIMELY PROCEDURE The proceeding In IUO warranto tot to-t st the title to the office of Chief of Police of this city now held by Mr Sheets are timely mid proper It is Intolerable In-tolerable that a situation such as exists here now should be permitted to continue con-tinue for any length of time Applications Applica-tions for license as well as payrolls atc held up through the obstinacy Of eight members of the Council and the city Is Itall nllt In 11 f11 1 > nnClltlnn A 1111m u uu her businesses that require a license for their pursuit arc now being conducted con-ducted Without license because the president of the Council backed by seven sev-en other members refuses to consider them his refusal being based on the contention that Sheets not being properly prop-erly Chief of Police his name on the application as indorscr of the fitness of the applicant vitiates the report of the committee in I recommendation that the licenses be granted That this Is an injustice to all concerned and damaging damag-ing to the interests of the city seems to be a matter of indifference to the stubborn stub-born Councilmen To enforce their contention con-tention they seem willing to tic UI the affairs to the city to an Indefinite extent ex-tent Their course In this matter is a sad commentary on the beauty of popular pop-ular government It causes one to Wish that there might be some way of ousting plibllc offiCIals Instantly when their incompetence or malevolence be comes manifest I It Is therefore eminently desirable that the qiio wairanto proceedings should be pushed with all vigor and that the question be determined at the earliest possible day It Is high time also that the claim that the Council Is a law unto Itself and can do any and everything it takes the notion to t do whether it lacks or contravenes statutory statu-tory authority or not were utterly demolished de-molished |
