| Show DISMISSAL OF CHIEF PRATT in the opinion of the NEWS arthur pratt has baa in the main filled the office of chief of police of this city in a manner satisfactory to the public and creditable to himself and our belief is ie that capt samuel paul his bis successor will prove an efficient effi clent head of the police department he was wag once tried in that position and was not found wanting it la Is not of the merits or demerits merita de oi of these two men however that the NEWS wishes to speak at this time but rather of certain peculiarities that have attended the abe proceedings which have resulted in the change two vacancies occurred some months ago in the board of police and fire commissioners one of tha aba remaining members was agreeable to the mayors wishes but the other one was not in ID order that the mayor might be enabled to execute his bis purposes eee it was necessary that tb atthe the two men chosen to fill the vacancies on the board should be subservient to his will it if rumor can be credited and in this instance it seems to be entitled to a fair legree of credence the mayor made a somewhat extensive canvass among his bia personal acquaintances with a view to finding two of them who would lend themselves to his plans and it was sometime before be succeeded rumor humor further says that several gentlemen rejected his proposition to appoint them on the board because of the terms exacted after a long delay during which the public interests suffered the board was filled and one of its first imbor taut ant sets acts after being thus reconstructed was to remove the chief of police and appoint his bin successor the dismissal is not cot claimed to be for cause not a charge has been made against the removed official at least so lar far as the public is aware no open contest content has been made against him the spirit in which all this has been done la Is wrong it ILI savors of secrecy we badge of fraud and of jealousy and malice it creates and pru motes mote strife and ill III feeling in departments of the city government which should be entirely free from them and it makes the strongest stron aest and bitter bitterest bitt enst of partisans in circles from which the law as well as public ju in terest dorest ri requires quires partisanship to be rigidly excluded mayor glendinning alend inning is pursuing pur euing a mistaken policy and the majority of the board of police and fire commissioners have not added to the esteem in which they were holes held by their fellow fallow citizens by siding aiding him to accod it packing such bibles as the doare for or the purpose of carrying out the be executive will in such oases camm and in such a manner will not reflect credit on any of the parties tor for the be proceedings edinge furthermore it will bring into contempt teMpt the law under which the business buei neBB la Is done for the spirit if not dot even the letter of that law la in quite at variance with the latest operations opera tiona under it |
