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Show TRUTH. POLICE MUDDLE The row in the city council over the chief of police has become very distasteful to the public. It has gone much too far and should be brought to an end at once. The people are heartily sick of it and demand that it be stopped. The scenes of last Tuesday night in the council were disgraceful in the extreme and nothing can be said in defence of them. Councilman Robinson, who has acted in good faith and with discretion throughout, had the much desired resignation of chief Hilton in his pocket. The resignation was couched in the identical language of those handed in by chairman Dooly of the Board of public works, City Engineer Kelsey, Land' and Water Commissioner Wester-fiel- d and others, but in the case of Hilton it was not satisfactory to the mayor and his advisers. Hilton resigned with the stipulation, the same as the others, that his resignation was to take effect when his successor was The appointed and had qualified. mayor wanted an immediate and unqualified resignation from Hilton. If the resignations of the others were good Hiltons ought to have been good also and ought to have been accepted. The mayor then with grace and without any loss of dignity might . have made his appointment of Hiltons successor and the trouble would have been at an end. Red tapeism may be carried too far. In this instance it is standing in the way of the public good. The argument that the insurgent members of the council want to know who the mayor will appoint before Hilton goes out in order that they may make deals with him is childish. If the council wants to make deals with the iuture chief before they confirm his appointment all it would have to do would be to refer the appointment to the usunal committee, which would give the council a week to make its deals, if it wants to make any deals. If the mayor and his advisers want to bust the machine they are taking the right way to do it. A string .when . pulled too tight snaps . ft ft The real point at issue now appears to be the reinstatement of the three deposed police officers. The feeling in the council against them is Buch that it is not likely that any effort of the mayor or their friends in the council willl succeed in getting them restored to their positions. If they were reappointed the council could not confirm them without absolutely stultifying themselves, and the. majority of the council could not do so. Whether their removal was justified or not Truth cannot say. It would take a full investigation to decide that. Truth, however, does know that Detective Sheets has been a most efficient officer for many years and it seems a rather summary proceeding to let him out without an investigation of whatever charges may have been made against him. ft ft Councilman Daveler when he made his heated arraignment of Chief Hilton in the council last Tuesday evening in reference to the treatment the. three girls, Kesler, Dahl and Carney were subjected to by orders of Chief Hilton, might have gone on and told how the damage suits brought by the parents of the girls against the chief and other members of the police force were settled. The plaintiffs were paid $75 each, that is $22o in all; and the money wes raised by an assessment or a valuntary contribution from members of the department, made to help out the so-call- ed chief, who was responsible for the occurrence which gave rise to the damage suits being filed. ft ft At each meeting of the city council President Cottrell demonstrates more and more the correctness of the position taken by Truth before his election to the presidency that he was utterly unfit for that position. On Tuesday night, however, notwithstanding the statement in the morning papers to the contrary, he was right in his ruling that the chair was not sustained when the vote stood 7 to 7 on the question of reconsidering the removal of the three police officers. ft ft The members of the Building trades have started out with the avowed intention of having a representative in the next legislature, A. L. Hamlin, who was a member of the house in the late legislative body, will probably be a candidate again, but a number of the building trades people are opposing Mr Hamlin, on account of some internal strife in the organization in the matter of hours of labor. Mr. Hamlin took the position that 8 hours on Saturdays, with pay for 8 hours, was the proper caper while the other faction, it is said, want 8 hours pay for 7 hours of labor. lines, with appearant disregard for the being effective upon the appointment constitution which provides, There and qualification of his successor. should resign and his successhall be no union of church and state, sorHilton should be appointed and confirmed, and his position implies disregard of and if the Republican party is not to bo that constitutional clause, which clearly sacrificed the matter ought to be dropped and the department should bo contemplates that church influence restored police to efficiency. shall not be interjected into the tranM. saction of public business. Save your money and when you get a The issues involved admit of no contention when fairly met. The con- dollar deposit it with Zions Savings tentions have no good purpose. The Bank and Trust Co., No. 1, Main matter could have been amicably ad- street. The largest and oldest Savings Bank in Utah. justed in the first caucus, had not the Joseph F. Smith, President, religious issue been raised, and the George M. Cannon, Cashier. mayors wishes acquiesced in. In removing Chief Hilton the mayor acted The Golden, Era property in Park in with statutes accordance the strictly county, Colo., has been purchased by so far as his act alone is concerned; the Col. Percy Sowers, W. I. llador, W. 1. law contemplates that the mayor shall Snyder and Dr. McLean of Leadville have power to remove by and with for $50,000. the advice and consent of the council, only independent Truth is the ' but there is no express or. implied auUtah. in paper thority to compel obedience to the doings of the mayor, in the exercise of such authority. It cannot be said that Mayor Thompson had ever discriminated against Mormons, or. feared or favored any person for. religious reason, but on the contrary, he has proven him- self impartial and fair in every public act, and especially in his appointment wherein the question of religion might have been raised. BOTH SIDES WRONG. The payor is entitled to the implicit confidence of all on that score. Then Editor Truth, The division of the on the other hand, the council without Republican members of the present questioning the motives, acted within of law in removing the city council 6n, appearantly, religious theseperview in the with the concurrence officers, lines, in connection with removing the recommendations of .the chief of police, chief of police, contributes aggravation, but by a.combination vote of four Demconducive to a revival of the former ocrats and four Republicans, all being and the officers removed bitter differences between Mormon and Mormons, were all Republicans, and and tends to disrupt and the council is that notwithstanding, disintegrate the organization of the more than Republican. There may be different conclusions Republican party, both locally and deduced from the facts, or at least from throughout the state, the effect is un- the circumstances which surround the limited. controversy. Every good Republican deplores the However, the situation rests with the and the issues situation, regrets having mayor's request for the removal of been raised, and Chairman Eichnor's Chief Hilton, up to the council, and this matter after been referred Powers, Straup & Lippman, and the city committees intervention is to the committee having is returned and still the proper procedure. ' held in obeyance. While in concurring ATTORNEYS-AT-LAwise It would take a judge to deter- with the chief in removing the three mine the issues sufficiently to dispel officers there was no reference to a comCor. Second South and mittee whatever, and this act is ap- Caivla Dlnnlr the differences. LOglB DIOCK i i West Temple Sts. una and of breach courtesy, pearantly Mr. Robertson claims to be support- fair discrimination against the Chief Executive of the city, and such an act ing the administration as a Republican, of D. A. Williams. C S, Williams. discourtesy is indicative of rank igR. G. WillLms. yet during the previous administration norance. GB. Williams. of Mayor Thompson, Mr. Robertson Still, if Robinson had presented the WILLIAMS BROS. GOAL GO. S saw fit to oppose the mayor with the ut- resignation of Hilton to take effect at ' most bitterness, and refused to be bound the. appointment and qualification of J A.LWLLA S, Manager. a would make his the successor, mayor DEALERS IN by the' Republican caucus, before the mistake if he refused to submit the organization of this council, in the name of his choice for chief. The talk election of the council president, and that the resignation has a string to it makes open declaration in the council is all bosh; resignations of political Rock Srrings, effective officers almost Cuslle Gale. are invariably that the fight on religious lines will on the Grass Creek, of a successor, it qualification Lump, Nut and Slack. continue for two yeaes; and then to the would be discourtesy to do otherwise, YARDS! 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