| Show like it or not tile the mayor and council made a permanent appointment for city marshal last sunday evening and iho times they made a good choice mr dalton dallon was a good marshal once and we believe lie ho will bo be even heller better now ail admitting hi his s qt qualifications x we still wonder how members of 0 the ilia council justify their ap pointing another key man from the opposing baity this writer never did subscribe to the idea that all the ilia ability of it a community is re posed in III one party 14 As previously pointed wit out the ratio of republicans to democrats holding appointive offices in the th crity tit is eight to three with the former holding all the key positions the salary ratio is even greater vet democrats have been in a post tiou lion to control appointments during two adinie administrations istra t ions rumor lias has it that another republican is slated for a new job to be created and still we hear it argued that thai democrats are taking all the jobs 0 when elections c are arc conducted on party lines party workers are not unreasonable in expecting that the official whom they elect to office will sa see that their party has at least some part in fit the conduct ot of government and that it if there are political plums to be distributed they will not am all go to the other parts part of course the excuse for appointing and re appointing practically all republicans has been that they are better acquainted with city affairs they always will be it if they are kept in the offices kicking out ot good republicans just to replace them with democrats or vice versa would bo be pure but tilling filling 1 vacancies by appointments from the party which is least represented in the official family be such bad politics 0 the council was in executive session when the appointment under discussion was agreed upon a aad r d so tar far as we know it been disclosed by anyone who sat gat in on the meeting how the members voted but no one has to be told that in a council of tour four democrats and cue clio republican two democrats must have voted with the republican to confirm the mayors recommendation men dation and democrats lont dont have to do much guessing as to which two it was 0 speaking ot of the I 1 liquor problem we recall that a former county attorney took occasion to tell certain members ot of the in a neighboring community that it they persisted in fit flagrantly violating the prohibition statutes he would have to jjck them up just like comin common cill street drunks it was an admission of 0 previous discriminations on his hia part but it had the effect on oil those addressed just a hint to local officials |
