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Show Protest On Appointment tiring to have appointed a man of I the same political party as Mr.! Steele? The state law is definate on ,this ma iter pertaining to the filling fill-ing of vacancies in the House and Senate aad says the vacancy "shall" be fillers with a. person of the same We, the Republicans of American. Fork, wish to publicly denounce and; protest the action of the Democratic, members of our city council last, Monday when they appointed a; Democrat to fill the vacancy in the ; city council made by the resignation . jof Harry M. Steele, Republican; member elected for a four year term in the fall election of 1931. This was clone over the protest of councilman Rulon Nicholes and in the face of I the recommendation of three Republican Repub-lican men by the Republican com-i com-i mittee. political faith. Petty political acts of this kind I are the disgusting things in our political po-litical set up and are responsible for much of the general feeling toward politics and politicians. We publicly demand that the council reconsider the appointment We grant that our Democratic i friends can partially justify them-I them-I selves from the wording of the City : Ordinance which simply states that in case of a vacancy, "the city council coun-cil shall fill the same by appoint-ment appoint-ment for the unexpired terms." But . j in fairness to the voters, who elect-1 elect-1 ed the outgoing councilman, and to the Republican organization wouldn't it have been the manly and fair i and be fair to the public and the Republican party. We have no criticism on the man chosen by them and want Mr. Ingersoll Inger-soll to feel that this is not an attack at-tack on him but simply on the principle prin-ciple involved in the appointment. American Fork Republican Com., H. E. McNiell, Chairman, Joseph Anderson, Secretary. |