Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-11-05

on the day following the election
the News" called attention to the
fact that there had been an abandon
ment of party lines by the voters to
great extent, and drew from 1t the
suggestion that partisan bias ought
not to be displayed by the new city
administration. In the making of APP
polntments and other official acts. This
suggestion had such good foundation
in the election figures, was so obvious
ly in line with the plainly cvineed
public opinion of the city and with its
best interests and was so incontestbly
fair and reasonable. that we were little
prepared for the antagonism it aroused
on the part of the Democratic organ.
That paper quotes the suggestion
made by the News" and comments as
follows;
Indeed Isn't this proposition that
the tail shall wag the dog? Those
members of the next administration
who are non-partlsans were elected as
partisans, and the -partlsans did
all in their ~Ower to defeat them. why
should they become non partisans at
ter their electlon?"
This paragraph is uninteligible ex-
cept that it evidently aims to be sar-
castle, and to insist that Democrats
in the City Council act as partisans
rather than as sensible business men,
in the discharge of their duties. Fur
Their on these sentences appear:
III any attempt should be made to
partisan adherents who devoted their
time and labor TO the nOn-partisan
cause, the Democratic Council should
turn them down. Its powers In this
direction are co-extensive with the
MAYORS, and there is no reason in the
world why the Mayor should be per-
mitted to use the appointing power to
reward non-partisans any more than
the Council should to reward Demo-
Gratis. We do not know that the
Mayor will make any such attempt,
hut there are those who did what they
could to secure his election that will
urge him to such a course; of course
they will urge in the name of patriot
ism and not OF party. Every appoint-
ment to oiiice that the Mayor makes
should be carefully scrutinized, ana
whenever colored gentlemans head
appears in the woodpiie 1t should De
hit"
IniS lanBuaBe can pe SiNSh SuN ''N
construction: II Mayor Clark shall
appoint to office or position under the
city a non-purtisan, then the Demo-
cratic majority in the city Council is
to refuse to confirm, and a deadlock
is to be created. Appolntees, in order
to be confirmed must be partisans,
presumably on the Democratic side,
for it is hardly to be supposed that
Democratic majority in the Council
would insist on the choice by the
Mayor Of Republican. If the Mayor
selects man for u given position be-
cause he is a good business man and
otherwise well qualified, without re-
gard to his party affiliations, the
nomination is liable to be antagon-
lied.
For years the city Council and some
OF the city departments have been
distracted by Internal strife, senseless
deadlocks, and displays of offensive
and bigoted partisanism. TO such dl-
mensions had this evil grown that 1t
created universal disgust among the
voters and taxpayers of the city, and
one OF the chief reasons why the peo-
pie elected John Clark Mayor was
their hope that his election would end
conditions so disgraceful. And now
comes the Democratic organ with the
insolent suggestion that because they
have a majority,the Democratic mem
bers of the city Council should SO