The daily sentinel., 1899-02-07
GREATER NEW YORK.
POWERS BEsToWEpU UPON ITS MAYoI
WILL BE ALMOST AuTocRATIc.
1hs Annual Banning Expenses Of the Now
Municipality Will Exceed o7B. 600, 900.
It's Employees VIII Outnuu,ber the
United States Army.

United States Army.
The mayor to be chosen by the hall
million or more electors Of the Greater
New York on the first Tuesday Of N0vem.
bef will be at the head of a municipality
the annual running expenses Of which will
exceed o76, 600, 600, while the roster Of Its
employees will he larger than that Of the
United States army. The term of the
mayor will be four years. extending until
Jan. /, 1909, or nine months beyond the
present term of william Mckinley, the
president of the United States.
The powers Of appointment and removal
bestowed upon the next mayor during the
nrst six months Of his term are summary
and sweeping. No municipal officer In
the history Of the United States has boon
permitted to exercise such powers before.
The mayor, too, will be influential In or.
ganixing the new Ilty government for all
time, many Of the details having been left
By the charter makers for determination
and adjustment in the establishment and
subdivision Of city departments. ~
The voters OF the enlarged city will Be-
more in numbef than have ever participate
ID In any municipal election In the United
States, and they will be called upon to
elect . mayor who, whatever differences Il
opinion may have divided them In the
past, will come before them upon an issue
practically new and all Important to .
suooessful administration Of city affairs.
After Jan. /, 1898. New York will
have, more than ever before, the control
Of the financial Affairs Of the whole coun.
try. Whatever question there mny have
bsen Of New York's supremacy In ooin.
meeoial., manufacturing and productive
interests will exist no longer. The Greater
New York Will b foremost In all branches
- 49, b<x,r ~,nIl
trated in the documents published by the
Neeohants' assoGatioB. It will be clearly
aud permanently at the head Of all Aineri
cah cities. Long the largest among Amer
inn ports end in the collection Of oustoIns
revenues, tho enormous and increasing
concentration and consolidation of finaD-
cial interests here, Of the interests Of rail-
road companies, banks, bond and trust
companies, savings banks, benevolent and
fraternal orders. and the life insurance
companies and other Institutions. will put
New York 70 far at. the head that thers
will be no possibility Of rivalry.
For the safeguarding and protection Of
oil these interests and of all those who are
represented In them u 10 imperative that
the man chosen ~ mayor shall Ls the rep
fosentative aDd candidate Of . political
party Of principles justifyins the conf
denoe Of property and civilization. Hap
pily such q party 10 now the dominant
political organization In the Union, and
IT. predominancs at last years election
affords promise that 1t will be put In pow
sr and on guard over these tremendous in
tsreSE This 10 simply the dictate of COM
mon sense. The Republican party will
ssprVscnt law. order and financial security
and honesty against thu foes Of property,
Of law and Of commercial stability. The
ehoioe Of the people Of New York will not
BE- between two men candidates for mayor,
but between the two parties--two theories
of governments Faa sAg
: On such an Issue ~ this. the only issue
d the canvass, the party back Of candi-
moreover, that the nominee shall be In
full and complete accord with the party
which, on a clearly defined platform, puts
him In the field and responsible to that
pAfty.-New York Sun.