Show SOMEBODY OK N for some time we have heard beard 7 much auch private discussion respecting the proper representative attitude towards the minority 7 ofa public body elected by the majority ma bority of this community ity athas it has been strenuously and in some cases even boast fully maintained that the city council elected by the peoples party ia is the representative of the who whole leof of the residents of ogden kv I 1 an municipality n in one sense this is true the official action of the city council binds the whole municipality ci j just uit aa as the official action of Con congress greas binds the whole united slates states the president orthis of this country ie is chosen by a majority of votes that majority represents one party in con contrades cout tradis lon to another or others and chef majority party in turn represents or is supposed eup posed to represent specific national principles for application in the government of the entire country in preference to other and contrary principles re presented by the minority for a like purpose then a president chosen by any given ma in as dority party becomes the president of the whole country the majority rules both for itself and the minority the revenue of the country ia is paid by the property holders and consi consumers finers ot of all parties alike but even in national affairs the whole revenue is in turn expended or ordie disposed posed of by the majority through their party representatives accordi according Dg to the public policy and the P professed principles and the will of the majority party if a Con congress Cong greas reee and a president chosen by the democrats for instance should upon exercising their functions in the administration of pubs lie lic affairs assume that whereas they had become the rulers of the whole country therefore they mit maet at govern gover aeS ae cording to the conflicting osite views view of all taxpaying tax paying voters of all political faiths that CoD grees and that president would not only be considered foolish for undertaking an impossibility but in case they departed from democratic principles fo to haq der to the opposition views of the opposition minority party they would be very promptly and very properly reau repudiated dialed by the democrate who elected them thew these rules will hold good when applied to the governor of a stale state or a state legislature or when applied to the mayor of a city eity and a municipal legislature juet just as well as when applied to a president Pre eident and a congress the city council and the mayor of ogden were elected by the peoples party the masses of the vo tera of this municipality seem to have been so well eatie fied with the principles pf the local peoples party that not a single candidate of the liberal party was chosen to a IL olace ilace in the city government it often happens in diff different erent cities all over the union that the demo cratic or the republican party 1 aa in diffor eat places respectively elect every member of municipal govern inputs so it ie is no new or unusual thing for a etolo whole citto city t I 1 be governed by the representatives 0 of 1 ono one majority ps party arty II 11 isobe primary principle of this republic that ma josities jori ties shall rule the city council and the mayor arc are sworn to execute equitably and without partiality the laws left to them for execution the city government cannot enact or put in force any ordinance that is this the limit its of its power and jurisdiction in the application of written law in the wes assessment of taxes and in the general execution of its duties defined by statute the municipal of ogden or any other city should make inalie no discriminations because of party creed or race but as the democratic and republican parties in other citi cies represent distinctive policies iesso so do the peoples party and the liberal party in ogden represent different and opposite principles it is often within the discretion of the city council to determine det erdline what one of many possible different I 1 I 1 legal courses i to pursue the there re are in other worde words various various ways of doing the earno same thing and various agents available to perform the same fco ce A city government elected by the peoples party is bound by every moral obligation of partisanship and manhood alike to carry out the ideas of policy and employ the agents and methods of the peoples party within the discretion allowed by law jaw for instance if the local liberal party should favor the erection of a new city hai hall and aud the employment of john smith a liberal to build it and the peoples party should be opposed to the building of anew a new city hall altogether it would be the unquestionable duty of a municipal government chosen by the peoples party as a majority to refuse to build the new now city hall however according to the thc ideas advanced by some who are absurdly desirous of the popular name of representing the whole city in a case of the kind which we here cite by way of il illustration tiong a city council elected by the peoples party would neither refuse to build a city hall acco according dink to the will of tho the peoples party nor erect it according to the views of the liberal party betit but it would compromise mise the difference by erecting half anew a new city Halland hall and by the employment of john jones an alleged jack mormon to build it but by such a course a city administration would soon find that it represented noboa nobody y if a city council elected by the peoples People party sParty refuses to carry out the legitimate public policy of that party it is guilty of treachery and ought to be repudiated at the next election or purged of its unfaithful element the same would be true of ofa a city administration chosen by the liberal party or any other political order A in every incorporated city of the united states where the Demo democrats cras for example exclusively control the municipal government b by y ver vel tue of a majority of voters the city printing and advertising patro patronage is given exclusively to that local paper or those local papers is which are the journalistic representatives representative a of the democrats who were in the majority and who elected thedia the democratic candidates to municipal offic a an any y one who denies this ie it either ignorant or A a liar this practice praet ico is right too A newspaper that advocates the principles ofa of a party and by such advocacy a aids 1 ida or oz endeavors to aid in tho the election of men to e carry arry out those principles which the majority sustains as be ing best for the public good deserves the whole public patronage which should be bea bestowed towed upon it exclusively instead of beia 4 divided with a paper winch af ich fought against the party and principles which the majority declare by their votes were and nd are wisest and best A newspaper in accord with the public policy and views of the rightfully ruling majority of an any Y gi given vea municipality is to that extent fi auve eilind and und a public pui servant identified 1 ea with the progress and welfare of said municipality therefore such a newspaper de serbei serves to be fostered li liberal berall I 1 by public patronage A city administration that occupies such relations with a journalistic representative of its party cannot shirk its duty in this regard under the mere were pre teace tence of economy and when it haa has ample means and does subsidize public celebrations such acon oiny ie is a mere pretence without forfeiting the confidence of the parly party which elect edits mem member lers to a certain cerwin extent that city govern wet mat or state administration which 7 gatila rocourt to 1 ourt court poi popularity larity by div dividing i ld its t publishing peonage ge equally between the people peoples friends and enemies under the pica plea that it is the government or tho the administration of the whole people would justly forfeit and lose the confide confidence uce of everybody if it acted consistently on that false principle in all things that is a miserable and unworthy officer which has not sufficient devotion to the majority which elected him to carry out the public views and policy of his party as fearlessly and faithfully as he can legally and rightfully the liberal party in ogden city has from time to time et A P a great howl bowl because the majority t y rule continually just aa as majorities all over the country rule that ruling majority happens to be the peoples party if it were the lib eral party all would be right of course the effect of this great liberal howl has been to apparently weaken tho the legitimate and proper partisan fidelity of some men whom the peoples party had bad elevated to power and these raea men have tried to pander a little to their enemies and the foes of their own party with them it I 1 is snow now a question whether they shall in the future represent somebody or nobody |