Show THE PRATT DECISION A caret careful ful reading of the decision of the state supreme court in the pratt case confirms the belief that further resistance to the claims of the petitioner will not be offered by the defense that no motion for a rehearing will be filed and that the de jure chief of police will be allowed to enter upon the actual performance of the duties of his hi office without delay there appears not t the faintest possibility that the opponents of the chief can gain any advantage to themselves by prolonging the litigation and there are a many and oo 00 gent reasons why it should be dropped at once the people of the city sav are tired of it and the police department is in urgent need of a recognized head the court maintain that the chief and also the members of the police department hold their positions durtha good beba behavior vior or until further legislation upon the subject this ought to place the department entirely out of politics and make it easy to establish condition of harmony discipline and tt clency complaints that the laws are not being properly enforced in this city are becoming numerous and loud and some heed should be paid to them this decision is a tremendous vindication of the firmness and sagacity of mayor dark clark suppose his backbone bad yielded under the pressure of the nu maebane mae bine whine and he had appointed a new it department the city would S have ve had two sets of officers to pay ana k a complicated muddle making and costly litigation inevitable would have ensued serious and consequences have been avoided by the resolution and foresight oane mayor and a corresponding op falls upon the heads of his Sli 8 V wow let wrangling cease let the city council hold up the mayors hands in his efforts to give the city a good let meddlesome schemers Wo Ii were not placed in office by the people be no longer permitted to dominate the men amen who were again the news says let us have peace peace |