Show GOING OUT ASO AND COMING IN the present city council thill expire on or before the first day of the new year its demise w will ill not be extensively mourned ax ar though it has done almost as little to condemn as it has to commend it it is regarded as a slight improvement pro upon the one before but there is a vast opportunity for improvement pro yet the present city council found the city in a hopeless filancia fin ancia tangle and appreciated the necessity sity for economical action but there is a difference between economy and parsimony which the council has bar not always been able to see when it fixed the salaries of the new officers a desire for cheapness regardless of efficiency was war certainly shown the present city council has exhibited an eccentricity in its deportment port mert towards other city officials it has been over anxious to defend some and apparently unmindful of others it has arrogated t D itself the right to forbid criticism ind has set itself up as a body of censors on the utterances of the public press it is to lie be hoped that the new council coming in next wednesday will avoid the errors of the past r and joir the new mayor in all kepf gaii that there will la be DO more executive sessions with closed doors no more use of the public records for defending members of the administration tr tra tion no more condemnation of public newspapers for partisan purposes As THE JOURNAL has said before in the distribution of appointive appoint iye re biccs the good of the party in in power iwer to AB well as aa that of the people it 0 large must necessarily be con acred the civil service policy ais As not been recognized here in t lie ie past nor is it likely to be in ole future good men however dould be the first consideration daod bod democrats should be the i no man should be appointed unless he is both in making the appointments all elfish interests should be laid side aside no member of the city counci has any right to disregard i he voice voice of the taxpayers of this ity no democratic member has lity iny right to ignore the wishes ot he men who put him in m office robbery and robbery will not be tolerated by the democrats of logon logan THE tae JOURNAL serves notice now before the new administration assembles for the first time that it will criticise criticism critic ise any chicanery or questionable conduct of public matters on the part of ino incoming oming city officials just as readily and just as severely i ly as it would criticize members of the other political party tun TUB JOURNAL is for the people first the party next |