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Show IS COUNCILMAN M'KINNEY ATTORNEY FOR THE FEDERAL BUNCH? Is the Francis J. Heney (halo about to be transferred trans-ferred from San Francsco to Salt Lake? Is the Parley Christensen pose about to be shadowed? Is' Luther Burbank, who has combined so many ambitious vegetables to the ultimate improvement improve-ment of both in a single specimen, about to be outdone? The recent activities of Councilman James W. McKinney would lead one to believe that the gallery plays of the first, the cheap bid for free advertising of the second, and the skill of the third are all to be assumed by him, for he is apparently possessed of those uterliug attributes which go to make up a great reformer, and which only appear at rare intervals in the human race, a sort of a Burbanked Doctor Parkhurst-Anthony Parkhurst-Anthony Comstock-W. C. T. U. rolled all in one. Possibly McKinney Is sincere and merely misguided, mis-guided, but the eagerness with which he seizes upon every Herald-Republican story or editorial having for its object something to say to the detriment of the city administration, would lead one to believe that he is attorney for the federal bunch rather than a city councilman, keen on his duty, and having the best interests of the city and party at heart. Every time that paner says "shush!" he sneezes, though previous to entering the council, McKinney had a very large number of admirers who thought they saw in him the making of a competent official. That they have been greviously disappointed is putj ting it mildly, for he has done nothing during his incumbency but create strife and trouble and discontent, and the most apt pupil who might have spent years under the tutelage of the federal fed-eral bunch could not have done them better service ser-vice than McKinney is doing in his work of disorganization. If there was any principle at stake it would be different. A high principle is always above a party if the advocate is sincere, but the spectacle specta-cle of a man of McKinney's calibre unfurling his banner as the leader of a reform movement to solve the problems of evils that have existed for four thousand years without any perceptible halt in their progress, is ridiculous, to say the least. Has this city and state not had enough to contend with from the liars without and the assinine legislature within, that it must be further fur-ther hampered by reformers of the McKinney stripe? It Is always expected of Brother Fernstrom that he will be a trouble maker. His perennial performance in this line has grown to be such a habit that he has come to be looked upon as the chief clog to progress in the council-. council-. manic chamber. Let him retain his prerogative, or, if he must make way for another, let that other be someone with the brains of Fern-' strom, and not James W. McKinney. There are many great Improvements decided upon and contemplated for the Btate and the city during the coming year, but nothing would bs of so much benefit to; all concerned as a firm resolution on the part of nine-tenths of the legislators and such city officials as the McKinney McKin-ney kind to give us all a rest. |
