The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-11-17

A Mayor elect Is not usually n very inn
portant parsonage except to Office seekers.
The quoted utterances OF a Mayor elect are
not usually collected in book form with an
notations and foot notes, but the answer
which Mayor-elect STRONG gave to the prop
osition that n nomination trust should be
vet up by the Committee Of Seventy, So
called, is highly creditable to his sense and
sand, and is worth preserving; II shall
make my own appointments, and nobody
shall dictate TO me whether | shall appoint
one man or another"
This response knocks in the head the prop
osition previously made for the establish
ment OF a nominating trust with Mr..
HORSEPOWER, Mr.. STERNE, Mr.. WHEELER,
and their associates as voting members.
Certain railroads, having become bankrupt
and despoiled of credit, may find it desirable
TO establish, as an extra inducement and
precaution in borrowing, a voting trust"
which delegates to the bondholders the
voting rights Of the stockholders, the actual
owners of the property. It is a sort Of finan-
cial martial law, temporarily established.
The plan attributed TO the Committee OF
Seventy Of assuming control of all the
nominations OF Mayor STRONG, would con-
stitute an invasion of his rights and duties
in order that some gentlemen who have been
nominated to sppointive offices and rejected,
and others who when put up for elective
Office were defeated by the voters, and others
who were unsuccessful In their search for
nominations, could in an irresponsible
manner dictate the policy Of the new munich
pal administration and apportion the offices
among themselves and their friends.
The adoption of the amendments to the
State Constitution and the radical and un-
expected changes which they entail; the
overwhelming majority which, for the first
time in many years, the Republicans have
secured in the Legislature; and the altered
political conditions which both these events
establish, impose obligations upon Mayor
STRONG which could not have been foreseen
some time ago. They raise. too, a number
OF constitutional questions which begin
with the question of his tenure us Mayor,
and the powers of the Legislature to make
summary changes in the departments. Mr..
shows good sense in his determine
ton TO perform the duties which he assumed
in accepting the Republican nomination for
without outside Intervention under
letters Of political guardianship issued by
the Committee Of Seventy, over n gentleman
OF full age and citizenship. 1t is a fact,
pretty we'll known in the politics of the
city, that at the time of Mayor STRoNG's
he was waited upon by repre-
Of the Committee of Seventy
with the request that he should subscribe
In advance to certain conditions which were
set forth in writing. Mr.. STRONG respond
ri CURLY, saying to the Committee of Sew
enty, through its representatives, that he
would make no pledges to them, and If they
lid not approve Of his independence in this
regard they were at liberty to nominate
some one else for the Office of Mayor. II is
40 secret either that many Democrats and
many Republicans, too, who look with much
upon a talwart partisan, and with
'ery little respect upon a Mugwump, were
by knowledge of this response attracted to
he support of Mr.. STRONG as a candidate
preliminary pledges.
81 will make my own appointments, and
Nobody shall dictate to me whether ! shall
appoint one man or another is a good rule
or a Mayor of New York, of either party.
I loyalty adhered to, it will enhance the
prospects of q successful administration by
he first Ohio Colonel who enters the City
Hall under an official designation.