The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-22
COUNCILMAN JONES.

The name Jones occurs very fire.
quently among people of this world.
Two members of the Ogden city coun-
Gil bear that name. One Of them is a
Republican and the other managed to
get in by playing that he was a Dem
ocrat, but many people are inclined
to think he secured his Office by false
pretenses.
This is q free country and any man
has & perfect right to belong to any
party that his fancy or best judgment
may dictate, but when man seeks q
nomination as a Democrat and is elect
ed by Democratic votes, the party as a
party has some right to expect that
he will at least occasionally give the
Democrats some evidence of the faith
which he pretended to have before
election, after ne gets into Office.
Mayor Spencer. who is a Democrat,
is opposed in his choice of men for
municipal positions by all Of the Re
publicans led by this alleged Demo-
cratic councilman Jones.
NO man is expected in the discharge
of his official duties to follow blindly
the party lead; II in so doing he would
have to disregard his official oath, to
discharge the trust imposed upon him,
honestly. But where party lines are
drawn the man who accepts an office
at the hands of one party takes a
moral obligation upon himself to at
least render honest service to his party
in all matters that are purely political.
Now Mr.. Jones has a right and
should reject the mayors nominations
if the men named are dishonest or in
competent, but if his objections are
purely personal he has not as much
right to refuse his consent as the
straight out Republicans, and they
haven't any.
1t may be that this particular coun-
Gilman Jones thinks that he is a bigger
man than the mayor and that more
| responsibility rests upon his shoulders
| if he does he is mistaken Had the
voters of the Second ward who elected
| Mr.. Jones considered for a moment
! that the position of councilman was
| half as important as Mr.. Jones evil
! IDENTIFY thinks it is, they would GER
tainly have chosen some other man tc
| fill it.
/ 1t sometimes occurs in this country
! of ours that great men fill official po
! sitions of minor Importance and some
! times small men get into offices thai
! are entirely too large for them. A
! truly great man never tries to magnify
| the Importance of his office, while ii i,
| almost invariably the rule that the
small man tries to make it appear thai
he Eliminates the office no matter how
| important it may be.
One reason why so many people have
come to the conclusion that Mr. Jone!
is not Democrat is that he assume.
to be greater than the party and when
ever man reaches that stage he O
necessity becomes a Republican, be
cause that is the only party with prin
ciples contracted sufficiently for ont
| man to tower above them
Mayor Spencer is the official head O
the city of Ogden and as such is re
sponsible for the conduct of the pres
ent municipal administration. H,
therefore should be accorded the RICH
to name his lieutenants and be helc
responsible for their conduct and IN
less the councillors know that his ap
| pointees are incapable and unfit to fl
| the positions they should confirm them
Because councilman is a Democra
or pretends to be, does not impose upo1
him greater obligations or graver re
sponsibilities in this particular than i
| does on Republicans