| Show THE PEOPLE WANT HARMONY on the day following the election the news caged attention to the fact that there had been an abandonment of party lines by the voters to a great extent and drew from it the suggestion that partisan bias ought not to be displayed by the new city administration in the making of appointments point ments and other official acts this suggestion had such good foundation in the election figures was so obviously in line with the plainly evinced public opinion of the city and with its best interests and was so incontestably fair and reasonable that we were little prepared for the antagonism it aroused on the part of the democratic organ that paper quotes the suggestion made by the news and comments as follows indeed this a proposition that the tall shall wag the dog those members of the next administration who are non partisans were elected as partisans and the non partisans did all in their ower to defeat them why should they become non partisans after their election this paragraph paragraph parag rapi is unintelligible exa except that it evidently aims to be sarcastic and to insist that democrats in the city council act as partisans rather than as sensible business men in the discharge of their duties further on these sentences appear if any attempt should be made to use the appointments to reward nonpartisan adherents who devoted their time and labor to the nonpartisan non cause the democratic council should turn them down its powers in this direction are extensive coextensive co with the mayors and there Is no reason in the world why the mayor should be permitted to use the appointing power to reward non partisans any more than the council should to reward democrats we do not know that the mayor will make any such attempt but there are those who did what they could to secure his election that will urge him to such a course of course they will urge in the name of patriotism and not of party every appointment to office that the mayor makes happiness of the individual it if he is fol should be carefully scrutinized and whenever a colored gent lemans head appears in the woodpile it should be hit this language can be given but one construction if mayor dark clark shan shall appoint to office or position under the city a nonpartisan non partisan then the democratic majority in the city council is to refuse to confirm and a deadlock is to be created appointees in order to be confirmed be partisans presumably on the democratic side for it is hardly to be supposed that a democratic majority in the council would insist on the choice by the mayor of a republican if the mayor selects a man for a given position because he is a good business man and otherwise wIse well qualified without regard to his party affiliations the nomination is liable to be antagonized for years the city council and som some of the city departments have been distracted by internal strife senseless deadlocks and displays of offensive and bigoted to such dimensions men had this evil grown that it created universal disgust among the voters and taxpayers of the city and one of the chief reasons why the people elected john dark mayor was their hope that his election would end conditions so disgraceful and comes the democratic organ with the insolent suggestion that because they have a majority the democratic members of the city council should so go control the mayor as to secure tm the appointment of partisans their partisans of course to office or else perpetuate I 1 A shameful strife and c the people of this city have they have expressed their ge 1 I in terms that no one is in justified in misunderstanding or mis misconstruing const A n they want a businesslike business like tra tr atlon tion every candidate who ww w elected on any ticket promised to give them this and such an means the selection of appointees solely with a view to their ho honesty and ability and without resa regard M to political or religious creed and without wrangling if the democrats in the city council pursue the policy marked out fw for them by their organ they will make themselves an insufferable infliction upon the community but such abw fortune will be accompanied by one consoling reflection it will insure the complete triumph of non parti the next time this thid city chooses its officers |
