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Show THE APPOINTMENTS Mayor Thompson has made an excellent excel-lent list of appointments thus far, and the Council did well in confirming them. They are all In (very way worthy; but n special word should be said for Mr. sheets, the new head of the police department. There Is n peculiar fitness and propriety in Ills appointment, ap-pointment, because during the campaign cam-paign the opposition singled him om for abuse ami held him tip to public opprobrium, culling upon tin people to vote agalnsl Thompson the argument being that if Thompson were elected, he would be sure to name Mr, Sheets for the head of the police department. The voters evidently liked this prospect, for they rlid not fail to elect Thompson. Thomp-son. I h.- appointment of Sheets was therefor there-for th logical outcome of the situation, and that he will be an admirable OfH( lal there ran be no doubt Major Thompson to be emphnti-.ally emphnti-.ally congratulated on his goorl work in thesi appointments, all of them, not one but Is a strong man w II fit for the position In which he Is placed. It Is a good work well begun. A similar purification and strengthening of the municipal admlnstration In other directions direc-tions will no doubt come in due time, and when the work of renovation Is complete, the city will stand forth glorious, free disenthralled, with a splendid advam e made in the direction direc-tion of efficiency and respect for order and for law. |