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Show co;;.".!ssio;i rain O F m m is PRAISED BY BADGER Sute Senator Jells What He Expects to Follow Re. form In Utah Cities. Carl A. Badgar, slste aanator from Salt Lake county, declared for tha om-mlaaton om-mlaaton form of govrnmnt yaatardar that It would taka tha municipal govern-mant govern-mant oat of tha aon wbara It. la controlled con-trolled by "tha yardatlck of national noll-tlca"; noll-tlca"; that It would do away with tha Ida that a eouneltmaa'a duty la to (at what ha can for hla own ward, and will maka tha administration of t-lvU affair. In tha eltlaa of tha A rat and aacond claaaaa In Utah economical, efficient and clean. Hi. Bedrer waa talking to tha naranta' claaa of tha aacond ward Sunday achool yesterday moraine Ha rafarrad to tha prellmlnarlea of the coming election and to the resulta to be expected from the fact that commissioners roust publish their campaign expenses. Hi believed, he aald, that tha expenditure! should have been restricted. Inasmuch aa the lack of ouch reetiietlon leada to corruption and to giving the man of wealth an unfair advantage. Detaila of the tow were explained, ex-plained, after wh'ch the advantagoe of tha commission form war elucidated aa f oil owe: "Tha advantages claimed by Ita support sup-port .rs for the commissioner plan of government ara that tha machinery of government la greatly elmpllfled and the responsibility of offlclale thereby mads certain and anforoable. Aa It la today the tendency la for the executive to Insist In-sist that the council should ect, the council transfers tha responsibility to the board of public worka, tha latter to the city engineer, and ha peases on tha duty to a committee of the council coun-cil Under tha commissioner plan tha rommlaelon has complete responsibility. By a division of duties Into five depart-menta depart-menta the primary responsibility Is fixed . lulmiuf ErfelSVWtV hSS marked the service of the commission whenever It has been tried. Economy has always followed efficiency. Des Moines was plucked from extravagant Inefficiency In municipal affaire and enabled en-abled success fully and economically to commence an extensive system of public Improvements solely because of the Increased In-creased efficiency and economy of har comm lesion. The restoration of municipal government govern-ment to tha confidence and loyal support sup-port of the cltlsena la also an Immense benefit of the new plan. The doing away with the ward system and the compelling of each commissioner to face his whole constituency makes lea poaalbla the election elec-tion of an Incapable or corrupt official from a email and more easily controlled district Tha whole city la equally affected af-fected by and Is therefore equally Interested Inter-ested In the vote of each commissioner, and err altlsen should have an oppor- tunlty to express his choice for each rommlasloner. Tha preeent plan cultivates culti-vates th. habit of each councilman sacrificing sac-rificing tha Interest of tha whole city, other than his district. If ha can only thereby get what hla die triet wan ta. The evil of deriding local problems, largely thoaa Involving ordinary business considerations, con-siderations, light, cleanllneee, sanitation, seweas. water and good order, by the rard atlrk of national politics Is absurd. It enable the men who care nothing about good government and who march under any banner to secure their corrupt ends to turn the tide of battle their way. - CMIsens who require clean, efficient, effi-cient, law-enforcing government divide on national party Hnea and fight each other, while thoaa who ara oppoeed to the Interest of both and are the common enemy of all carry the day. Economical, efficient, clean government should he the result of the astahllshmant of tha new plan. It deervae the loyal support of all rltlsene d selling a betterment of municipal munici-pal affaire." |