Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-03-26 | Page 13 | [Illegible] to Govern a Great City

I IT CITY JfiavnorofXew York City fciisses Certain Munici- V pailproblems. BoTHlKGS WITHOUT V THE AID OF A BOSS Bf, "Business in Politics" Klti Always a Success; Royalty to Parties. Hy KL the time for an election BTifae same demand of a large Kf nsople is regularly hoard: Kjt eomo merchant or busi-Hi.cd busi-Hi.cd let him run the city gov-?,he gov-?,he runs his ownbusincss.'J i it innds! But this is one of isKhViODS concerning city.gov-K( city.gov-K( ftiU s true that the business isHf i city should be carried on Hviv, and that good busi-Uniciii busi-Uniciii mou should be put at R fiTflepartraents and details; iKtl; eoncral management and Wrol-a prime essential Rinot ho dispensed with is needed. The govern. Hifergc city is a highly com-Kii.) com-Kii.) r.oliticnl machine. It has, IJlrlaw. all sorts of necessary Jpl'liniitations upon official tts man may do just as he Kj'buinc3. but not as a mayor public office. There he is a Broineat to carry out the laws. Wof atiorncy is the law. liii obstacle to the nomination Ktioa of- fit men to city office is and state party prejudice fa carried into local politics. (i never be mentioned there. & of evcrr sensible man should litil politics and issues for na-igtlions, na-igtlions, state politics and issues kflKti'oriS, and local politics and ul, rone other, for local clec-ifrny clec-ifrny ti're this is said people Icort than thov think, inelud-itsjtvjpapcr inelud-itsjtvjpapcr editorial writers, Klvc.T out that it is visionary, iiifannot ho done awav with, Ipui necessary. Certainly they iar. and there :s no sugges- j away with then. f(alocal elections should cross EtUrcrtv line freely, being in-ijljlowl in-ijljlowl considerations only, tft.i voter who will vote for the l&ef a party in u local election liffiwe lie believes in a protee-ijlcrin protee-ijlcrin free trade, or in a tariff te:tcn!v. or in a single Stand feiilic lr.onev, which has nuth-fcarr nuth-fcarr io do with the case, is ney sti-rid if not degrading ;Si is rcsjonsible for local L'Jivattr prejudice plays right bris of the boss, fcibuld influence the voter in lislion oxfciH the local ones-I ones-I and measures which are up. pfaibon. And it is .1 mis- nomer to call officials nonpnrtism who are elected in thiB discriminating way. They are partisans, but only on local issues, and it is entirely seemly and proper for them to make their appointments appoint-ments to office or place from the local parly which elected them. An inevitable cause of corrupt local government is the control of the government gov-ernment or the conduct of officials by outside bosses or organizations: The long era of that condition is passing. When the writer of this article so stated in Tammany Hall during the last mayoralty may-oralty contest in the city of New York he received more ridicule than sober consideration for it. And yet wo arc on tho eve of being completely emancipated emanci-pated from such condition. Only an ignorant ig-norant or corrupt community could elect a mayor who would be such a tool. A public oflieial should act from a sense of official responsibilitj- only. This does not. mean that he should ignore politicians politi-cians or party leaders, or refuse to consult con-sult with thorn or listen to them, but. only that in the end he should follow his own .enlightened official .judgment in every official act. A mayor, governor or president may learn much in respect of what not to do, as well as of what fo do, by listening to tho advice of political loaders, or even political bosses, as thev are called. It is onlj- a weakling weak-ling who will declare after reaching some high office that he will have nothing noth-ing to do with 'politicians;" and it is always painful to see such an official so distrustful of his own fortitude or in-tegiitv, in-tegiitv, or else so confident that ho Knows everything, as to assure such an attitude. Jt is the sicn of a little man. William .1. Gaviior in the Century.