Daily Republican., 1884-06-06
Shall the People or Mr.. McIntire
Rule?

themselves to be unsafe financial mana
gers of the city's interc SIS but they have
shown that they are political tyrant>
and subversive of the principles of trus
local self-goverulnent. In order tt
prove this it will be necessary to &C
back couple Of years and look at the
political status IN which the city was
found at the end of a two-year Demo
cratic term and compare it with the
present. Here are the facts of the case,
which cannot be controverted nor
gainsayed. The city had Democratic
Mayors and Democratic police for
nine years and nine months. The City
Council too during the most of that
time had been under Democratic rule.
In June, 1852, an election was held
for Mayor, other city officers and City
Council As all who lived in the city
at that time recollect, DR.. John p.
Wales Republican, was elected Mayor
and this of course was followed by the
appointment Of Republican police.
At the same time Republican City
Council was elected, which of course
carried with it a change of other
city officers elected by the City Council
Nobody disputed the honesty and the
genuineness Of the change. 1t was a
fair expression of the will of the people.
1t was notice served that until
otherwise ordered by the people them
selves Republican officers instead
Of Democratic officers should admins
ter the government of the city.
But scarcely had the newly elected
officers taken their seats before a move
ment was made by the Democrats TO
sannul the verdict of the people through
the agency of atruckling partisan Legis-
lature. \ Democratic eX-chief of
Police, who had been succeeded by a
Republican Immediately went to work
TO have Police Commission appointed
that would take the appointment and
control of the police force out of the
hands OF the Mayor and confne it to
said commission, to be composed proba-
bly, of two Democrats and one Repub-
lican.
Hardly had the excitement of the
election died away before H. b. McIn-
tire, then the Democratic Chief Engi-
neer of the Water Works, had plan
set on foot for the appointment of a
Water Commission by the same Legis-
lature, composed, too, of two Democrats
and one Republican, who were to take
the control of the Water Department
out of the hands of the Republican City
Council, to which the people had just
committed it, that his term Of office,
which was to expire next January,
might be continued on indefinitely.
The results Of these efforts are well
known. The Police Commission was
not appointed, but instead of it the
Legislature foisted upon the city a
Municipal Court The Mayor, whom
the people elected to have the same
power and duties that Democratic May
ors exercised, was retired upon nom-
nal salary with nothing to do but to
appoint his police, and to veto and
approve ordinances passed by the City
Council. Two Democratic officials, one
a Judge of a Municipal Court and the
other a clerk Of the same, nonopolize
the Mayors duties and draw his salary
and perquistes,
1t is due to the sterling integrity and
backbone Of Republican City Council
that W ould not bow its neck to political'
tyranny that a Water Commission, with
H. B. McIntire enthroned as chief of
that department, IS not i'll op"ration.-
The people, il their sovereign capacity,
resolved that he should retire, but he
resolved, by the help Of a partisan Legis-
Lature, that if he could not hold on to his
office in one way he would in another
The result Of th, conflict is before
the people, and the question is, shall
The people rUle.or shal. II. B. Mclutire,
through the aid Of aWater Commission?
This is for til" peopl" to decide to-mor-
row, If the Republicans succrrd the
people will rule, if the Democrat. sue
ceed II. b. M"Intiro will rule. Which
will honest voters choose?