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Show REPUBLICAN C0UNCILMEN, BE TRUE! The Republican members of the City Council owe It to themselves, as well as to their constituents, to stand firm In the contest which Mayor Morris and his aggressive partisan Democratic advisers have forced upon them. They owe It to their party to stop the raid which the "heelers" have begun to capture the municipal mu-nicipal offices. It Is well known that the Democrats have no reason for their clamor to get In, and to ousj. Republican? and good officials to give them place. The people chose nine of the fifteen members of the Council from the Republican nominees. These successful candidates were as bitterly bit-terly fought by the hungry gang which Is now clamoring for office as were the defeated candidates. If this crowd which is now demanding concessions from the Republican Councllmen could have had their way, the Republican candidates can-didates In the wards would all have been defeated. It comes with an 111 grace, therefore, for these clamorous ones to now approach ap-proach these Republican Councllmen with the demand for their consent that Mayor Morris shall pack the offices with men who supported) him, regardless of the public Interests, and to the weakening weaken-ing of their own party by the Republican Republi-can Councllmen, should they yield to the Impudent clamor. It is not to be thought of for a moment. mo-ment. The law does rot allow It, the principle Is wrong, unjuet. Republican r?01innflmon llnvn' plirhtc no -...OI .... T-i .... . ..q.hu lieu no ocratlc Mayors, and one of those rights Is that they shall have the unrestricted and free exercise of the power confided to them by the law; and this right must be respected. The character of some" of the Mayor's would-be appointments Is such, too, as to destroy all respect for his judgment of men. We suppose that In a great city It Is inevitable that there shall be clamorous, clam-orous, vile, and noisy perrons for whom It Is Impossible t6 have any sort of respect; re-spect; for whom no reputable citizen could possibly entertain anything but unspeakable contempt. It is bad enough to have such persons among us; but to pick them up and attempt to put them Into public office Is scandalous. Wo notice that the Democratic organ and Its evening ally in this attempt to bulldoze the Council Into yielding to the Mayor the control of the appointive offices, of-fices, are trying to scare tho members with threats of what Mayor Morris will do that the payroll will be held up; that ho will make vacancies In all the appointive offices, and then fill them, and all that sort of rot. But he cannot make vacancies; the Incumbents In-cumbents will hold until their successors are confirmed by the Council, as the law requires. If the Mayor's appointees think they can get Into office In defiance of the Council, let them try It in the courts. That matter has been pretty thoroughly thrashed out at different times, and the chance of such bob-tailed appointments succeeding is not In the least encouraging. By the way. how does It happen that one great backer of Morris In his personal, per-sonal, selfish, and partisan raid on the offices, is the same which last year was so tearfully pathetic in support of the rights of the Council against the Mayor? That maintained the right of the Council Coun-cil to have and exercise the restraining hand, as the direct reprpsentatlves of the people? This, too, while all the while sustaining the present system of municipal government as the right and proper one, which should not be changed. To allow the Mayor to carry through his contemplated partisan office-packing would be a disgrace to the city. It is incumbent in-cumbent upon the Republican Council-men Council-men to save the city from the reproach which Mayor Morris would bring upon It, and to stand firm on their rights, privileges, and duties, which are clearly defined In the law. |