Tombstone epitaph., 1890-05-17
SCHEME:RS FOILED Under d Provision of the Re-
 YiSed Statutes the GOVERNOR FILLS VACANCIES h the City COuncil-EVerything Will Now Run Smoothly-The New
 Officers Sworn in.

Ever since the agitation for disincor- poration commenced the affairs of the city government have been considerably deranged, and owing to the refusal of Mayor Thomas and Councilman Mo Pherson to perform the duties of the office to winch they had been elected, supplemented by the action of some of our business men in refusing 10 pay their licenses, matters were rapidly approach l ing a climax that would have been disas trous to the interests of the city. But the emergency has been met, the danger has been passed, and the city govern ment will he conduc ed as in the past.
 All the circumstances leading up to the movement for disinCorporation, the man. ner in which the campaign was con dncted, and what was developed during its pr"greas, clearly pointed to the con- | Clusion that 1t was l scheme on the part of few men to rule, in spte of right and justice A few men had made up their mind, for selfish reasons, to overturn the city government, and in collision with two of the city officers they came very near accomplishing their purpose.
 One part of the plan was to prevent a quorum in the city council until next Tuesday. Monday, the I9 h instant, is the last day fixed by law when the city council can organize as board of equal iz4iion, and if the city council, through lack of a quorum, could be prevented from taking proper action within the legal time city taxes could not be col 1 lecIed, which would completely upset the city government, and, although defeated at the polls, the dIsincorporationists would have Carried their point
 Seeing their danger, few public spir- ited citizens consulted together, and alter carefully examining the Revised Statutes found a law covering the situation, whereupon petition of the remaining city officers, setting forth the state of affiir>, was drawn up, and on Wednes- day last City Attorney Swain and DIs- trict Attorney Stilwel left for Phenix to present it 10 Governor Wolhey and ask that he exercise his authority and fill the vacancles. Alter the matter had been laid before the Governor, and Messrs. Swain and Salwell had stated their req sons for asking that the petition be granted, which were that it was not right that a city government should be allowed to lapse through wllIful neglect of the officers to perform thelr duties, Attorney General Churchill was called in and asked his opinion on the matter. After examining the. law carefully the Attorney General expressed it as his opinion that the Governor had full power to act m the matter, and also stated that he thought i; was the duty of the Governor t9 fur ther the ends of justice by granting the prayer of the petitioners, which the Gov ernor dld, immediately appointing men to fill the vacancies in the city council and causing commissions to be issued.
 Politics cut no figure in the matter. It was only q question of getting good men to carry on the city government The Governor was informed of this and understood that two of the appointees are Democrats, bu- deferred entirely to the recommendations made, as it was purely a local affair, he having no wish to interfere in such matters further than was absolutely necessary.
 The following gentlemen were ap- pointed w. D. Monmonier, Mayor; A len Walk r, Councilman from the First ward; ]. r. Shaughnessy, Council man from the Second ward. All these are old residents of Tombstone. are en- gagged IT business and interested in see ing th 1t the city government is econom- icaIy conducted.
 Messrs. Sulwell and Swain arrived home about ten o'clock last evening with the commissions for the new officers, and shortly aiterward they were sworn in by Recorder Hawke and an adjourned regular meeting was called for to-day at 10 o'clock m.
 The muddled condition of aff .irs has been straightened out, and the EPITAPH congratulates the citizens of Tombstone on the fac: of having a set of officials who will conscientiously perform their duties.
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