New-York tribune., 1873-05-07
THE Mayors NOMINATIONS.

THE MAYORS NOMINATIONS.
Mayor Hayemeyer's nominations for the lax
Commission and the Board of Health are
complete answer to the factlous POLITICIANS
who pretended to believe that he could noC
he trusted to Gil the executive offices. All his
candidates are gentlemen of high personal
character and of apparent fitness Tor tneir
respectiye positions. The Hon. John Wheeler
is a Democrat who has always distinguished
himself by a frank opposition to the dlscred-
table practices of his party voting III Coh-
eress against tho repeal of the Missouri Com
nromise. heartily sustaining the Union cause
during the war, and fighting against the Ring
during the rule of Tweed and Connolly.
II is to men of this stamp, VINO io'e
honesty more than party, that we must
look for competent and faithful admlnlstra-
tors. Mr. George II. Andrews, the second
Commissioner, is now the working member OF
the Tax Board, and has commended himself
to public favor by Jealous and efficient dis-
charge of the duties of his place. lie has not
RECENTLY been concerned in partisan squaD-
bles. and his political career has always been
honorable There is force therefore in the
criticism on Mr.. HavemeyeI's action in this
case,-that he would have kept more nearly
to the Civil Service policy, not only by APP
pointing Mr.. Andrews, but even by
making him the head of the Board.
Mr.. Moulton is retired merchant con-
spicuous during the last two years as a
reformer. Here is certainly just such Com
mission as the city needs-a Commission OF
responsible citizens who have evinced great
capacity for affairs and perfect independence
of ali Rings and cliques of Oiiice-seekers. The
nominations for the Health Board are equally
appropriate. The President is a man of high
standing and of scientific attaiDments. The
medical member has had great experience IN
sanitary affairs. Neither is politician.
But besides the personal fitness of the can
didates, there are other considerations which
commend these selections to approval. They
show that the Mayor remembers the circum-
stances under which he was elected and means
to fulfill the implied pledges which he gave
as TO the character of his appointments. He
was chosen as a non partisan refOrmer mainly,
however, by Republican votes. He makes his
appointments, therefore, from the refOrmers of
all parties, but gives the Republicans a decided
DleUOUupIdllCe NOI uOtS ht itCDSulANg dppd-
rently, any difference between the Custom
house Republicans who attacked him so shame
fully while the Charter was pending in the
Legislature and the opposition or independent
faction of the party who finally came to his
relief Mr.. Andrews is supposed to be accept
able to the CustOm-hOuse wing, Though he
has not been closely identified with 1t. Mr.
Wheeler and Mr.. MOulton have both been
active members Of the Committee of Seventy,
the one as a Democratic RefOrmer, the other
as q Republican. If the other executive de-
partments are to be filled by the same prin-
ciple of selection which has prevailed in the
nominations for the Tax Commission, we shall
have made a long step toward the great de-
sideratum in municipal reform, namely, the
emancipation of our City Government from
partisan politics.
There is, perhaps, no good reason why the
Aldermen should not take time to consider
these nominations before acting on them.
Their fitness is apparent at once to every
body; but the Importance of the function of
tine confirming body may be enhanced in the
popular eyes by the exercise of q little delib
Grafton, and if the Aldermen wish to claim
their full share of the credit for good appoint
ments, we certainly shall not object. But if
the nominations are to be opposed for party
reasons; if the Aldermen purpose going back
to the old system of spoils, and distributing
patronage not where it will do most good to
the city, but where it will have most effect
upon the party prospects in the next elections;
if they mean to use their power not to give
us an honest, efficient, busness-like admins
tration, but to reward pot-hOuse politicians
for services at the caucus and the polls, they
will find an indignant public behind them
whose remOnstrances will be made with some
vigor.