The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-03


JoURNAL reporter this morning: chr
Hopkins has surely acted in very
strange manner. I happen to know that
he went to the mayor several days ago
and said: Il would like to resign and
viii do SO if j can secure another job
which is satisfactory All right said
fhe mayor. Il will do what [ can til help
be true and the mayor took Unusual
pains t0 aid Mr Hopkins la the line sug-
gested. I think be must have practically
secured a place for Hopkins, OF received
promises which would have led up to
position shortly Later, last Saturday,
Hopkins went 10 the mayor and said he
lad changed his mind and would n0G re-
sign. This put the mayor out consider
ably Ia connection with the trouble he
had taken to accommodate him.
The mayor then talked to myself and
some Of the other councilmen whom he
happened 10 meet, and said he was am
noyed about the matter and did not like
the way Hopkins Was acting and com
Quoting his department. The couucilmen
said that they would see that d resolution
was introduced dispensing with DR. Hop
4 kins services" This is iu line with the
publication in the JOURNAL Monday
evening.
IT think myself" continued the coun-
Gilman, sthat Earnest is urging Hopkins
4 ON In this fight. You see If the Demo-
Gratis can stir up row between the
mayor and the council they VIII laugh in
4 their sleeves. The Democrats want fric-
ton, we want harmony
.SleanwhIle. before things came to the
crisis of Monday evening. by the mayors
twO-c0lumn veto, the c0unclmen had
/ gone to Dir. Harrison. learning that he
/ disapproved the salary ordinance, and
said to him: w e VIII reconsider and
modify it, we have come to the conclusion
F ourselves. and we were all pretty well
united, that there was some hasty action
and that some changes ought to be made
] particularly i'll the clause covering sani
{ tary policemen. Va said to the mayor.
we have already prepared a resolution
restoring the sanitary policemen, and we
wish to make other notifications agreea-
bic to you. All right said the mayor
that, of course. meets with my approval
and / viii endorse it..
Judge of OUT surprise, then. on Mon
+ day night. before we could move to re-
! consider the ordinance, the mayor hurls
/ at us his veto, criticizing as severely on
the very points we intended to change
i and Initiating that we had grips and
4 passwords Why, / ann stopped Ola the
streets and asked to give my friends the
aldermanlc grip and counterslgn and all
such foolishneas and absurdity. Now he
facts are, the cOuncilmen are anxious to
/ get along tremendously with the mayor,
and we even intended to take action in
7 Hopkins case but when we heard that
mayor for "a disposition to adjust
the ordinance without the Intervention Of
q veto, and very severe one al that. We
said, 'all right III that's the plan the
mayor can 90 ahead himself and remove
Hopkins.
You Will observe that the mayor iii
his veto says thar he very much regrets
that his first official action is I'd disap-
prove, etc. Nov in the face of what the
council had said to him about rsconsid-
trarr1r IL
the veto was wholly unnecessary.
Il wish to add. that while / agree with
the mayor ia soIne things, 4 also disagree
in some; but think he deserves great
credit for making the searching inVesti-
cation into the various city departments
and giving the suggestions he Has. Tt
shows that we have 2 business mayor,
one who means III put things on square
business basis just as they should be. i
do wish TO say, most emphatically, that
the council and mayor ought TO work to-
gether in harmony. They can as So and
they ought to for the city's good The
council will meet the mayor half way
and we wish the mayor to appreciate that
point and show the same spirit