Show RYAN MUST GO mayor major baskin sent in to last evenings ing Is of the city council the nomination of D S griffin for super intend in eol of vice ryan rea removed rei noved oved pl the quoted words carry their own significance with them ani ana mean that the case against the last lael named gentleman has baa been so ao plainly made out that such action became imperative toe the charter pro vides videa that the council may remove by a two thirds majority vote and that the accused is entitled to a hearing and to a copy of the charges against him beforehand so the action of the council in dt deferring ferring the matter I 1 or a time was wag not wrong in fact any other course would have been against a plain provision of the law and it Is ie not right under any circumstances to deprive an accused person of a hearing Ho however there are times when imperative pera tive action la in a necessity when delay might defeat the entire purpose of the enactment itself as an well as a hinder binder and perhaps overthrow the cause of justice altogether this to Is even sucha such a case esse while the water on pori n is not and has not been on trial as a formality he has been in that thai position substantially and there la Is but one verdict returned by the public this being the case he should not be permitted to discharge further the duties of the position in which he perpetrated the acts complained of and the mayor or anyone any one one having the power to suspend pending the formal hearing who should fail to do so would to some extent exten tat at least ally himself with the offender and partake of his wrong doing during the three days hearing before commissioner Commies loner greenman man the NEWS made not one word of comment for or against the nominal defendant mr drube or the real one mr ryan byan it ig would make none node now but that the mind of every reader as to what took place Is made up and ninety nine out of every one hundred have settled upon a conclusion unfavorable to ryan byan As the court lose deew not net have to pass upon this question except as a a matter of incident we are subjecting that gentleman to no unfair treatment by commenting upon his case now and at the most we are but reiterating what to is said paid and felt by the public the NEWS scorns the idea that in all this it has scored a victory or in the language of the he street imbue maue a win ning 11 it does not seek triumphs at the cost of any mans degradation and in the case of accused persons person especially any one to whom la Is committed a high and responsible position would rather a scandalous charge was shown to be without foundation than otherwise but being an official so far from exempting a person from investigation and punishment makes him only the more assailable and less vulnerable mr ryans politics are understood to be at variance with those of a afy tr of the people for ahm tile alip but we hope no one will go so far from the pule of reason as to say flay in the light of what has occurred that that has influenced us in the degree all the evidence adduced in his favor has been published in these columns without garbling warping or any more abbreviation than is customary or than the other evidence was subjected to and what was said and done by the NEWS against him would have been done in the same degree and with the same spirit had bad his politics been different or the one charged an official holding views entirely at variance with mr |