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Show THE DEMOCRATIC STRATEGY. The second man in the Police department depart-ment la u Democrat, this situation being be-ing brought about by the lemovat of the thic lst men on the force nil Republicans Re-publicans Th1". effort Is now making to hove the File department also put ln the same position Chief Hilton of the Police depailment I slated to go, and ought lo go at once for every da) lie remuln nl the heud of the Police department de-partment Is un InJuiy to the city. Chief Devluc talk" as If lie might leslgn at some time not far distant We trust that he mu not do so, for he is an excellent ex-cellent oMklal and good Republican, but should be leslgn and the Incompetent I Police Chief lw deposed It is easy to ae where we would lie at, In a Repub lican city where Hit people onl) so late ns last rail gave the Republican patt) charge of municipal affairs, there would lie Democintlc heads of these two departments de-partments and the Democratic pollll-clans pollll-clans would be epilck to make them nucleuses of the Democratic machine A try of hoiror Is sent up at our pliln exposition of these facts nnd affected surpilse Is cxpieapil at tho Idea of tho abandonment of nnu-iarllsanslilp That Is, ufter ousting three Republican who In one detriment were In line of succession to the Clilefshlp, ln order lo get ii inn to the Democrat and Insisting Hint the next ln succession In the other department must be a Democrat they ask us to consider that all this Is done In tho Intctest of nun-imrtlsunshlp The Ilornld Is tho newest and the oldest old-est -champion of this sort of non-partisanship, which I In fart merely n plea for Deniocuitlo cnntiol in a Itepubllcan adnilnlstintlnn Our contemporary believes be-lieves the Mayor should hive hla own men In executive position so Ionic us It doe not interfere with Hie public service serv-ice Hit le it Ih again, unlee Demo-trnts Demo-trnts nie In control, the public servlco will suffer It I the old bog) cr) that non" but Democrats can bo good public servants and non pat Hearts. The same hue nnd tis wn raised against Chief Devlne when ho was appointed, It was 'prtntllutlnR tho position to partlan politics,' and nil sorts nf evils were prophesied but didn't como to pass Isn t It about time that this pleading the bab) act In the Intel est of Democrat Demo-crat or public position to the ousting of Republicans on false pretense came to nn end ' It I very tlicscnie twadd'e |