The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-23

gress, and congress has powers which
 are checks upon the president, and the supreme court has powers which are checks upon both congress and the pres ident. The very reason why the consti-
 tuition provided that the appointments of the president should be subject to the approval of the senate was because it's framers foresaw that a president might for personal reasons desire to give some corrupt or incompetent person respon- sible position Let us be warned in | time. Some of these Would-be reform CTS have allowed their madness to carry them so far that they have even advoca-
 ted absoutism for our national govern ment
 It seems to me that it would be wiser for us to give up this vain pursuit of ex- ecutive unity and adopt the executive principle of the English constitution the principle which our own political leaders respected before Andrew Jack sons hard-headedness destroyed it; namely, that subordinate executive functionaries be not removed from of flee during good conduct. We should | then have a permanent and experienced 1 body of officials to do the regular rou- | tine business of our city government, q body of officials who, not being subject to removal by him, would have no in- | centive for intriguing with the mayor. In their eagerness for executive unity | these friends of municipal despotism, while they distrust the people, have ig- nored the lanentable weakness of hu- l man nature, a weakness of which most of us common folks are painfully aware. They assume that the mayor will always be a good man. They do not seem to appreciate the fact that if, under the present system, the people make a mis- take and elect bad man for mayor, the entire executive government will be cor rupt. They entirely ignore the fact that since the people always mean well, if they or their representa- tives elect all the members of the executive depart ments their will be no danger that every executive official will be incompetent or corrupt
 They seem to have forgotten that fed eral party lines have not disappeared from municipal affairs. The fact re- mains that divisions upon national poli- tics are brought into city politics with which they naturally have nothing to do; simply In order that the great polit- ical parties of the country may reward partisan services with municipal offices, as there are by no means federal and state offices enough to go around, So the municipal offices constitute the prln- cipal resource of the spells system. An organization like Tammany Hall could not exist if she had nothing but local, federal and local state offices to dsposa of
 Thus have the champions of absolu- tism unwittingly played right into the hands of the bosses and the spoilers, for the latter have under the present sys- tenn no great need of securing majori- ty in the board of aldermen nor any trouble and anxiety of having to main tain solid, permanent majority among the people necessary for a clean sweep of large number of offices; since the mayor now has the unconditional power of appointing the members of the execu- tive departments which embrace all the remunerative offices in the city govern ment So you see, that the corrupt pol iticians can devote their undivided ener- gies to one end, that of putting their III llle ultyO OI ' CIi1llI, tillb then, if they are successful, they have the entire control of the city govern ment.
 In this manner have our friends, the reformers, delivered the cities bound hand and foot into the political ring. They practically say to Tammany, You have used the power which you have hitherto possessed as corruptly and as wickedly as you could; now take more power and be good.
 The absolute power of the mayor is one of the many devices of persons with aristocratic tendencies to get away from the people. It is to be regretted that there are many, even of those who call themselves reformers, who do not be- | lieve in government of the people, by the l people and for the people. To vest all power in an elective despot is not gov- ernment of the people nor by the people, | and it is least of all likely to be gov ernment for the people.
 TO-DAY'S EXERCISES.
 The graduation exercises and the dis | tribution of diplomas by Mayor Dris- | coll will take place at the Hyperion this at 10 o'clock. About 120 diplo- | mas will be given out. President elect | Hadley of Yale will deliver an address on "A Political Education"
 The musical programmes at the an- nual graduation exercises have always | been considered attractive features. As | will be seen by the following programme a feast of music awaits those who are fortunate enough to secure tickets: Our Voices be Glad.....
 ...................'' 't....''''' l4ecpcq Introduction of the Hillhouse class of
 1899.
 June Vincent
 Ladies' Chorus.
 Address-A Political cation-Presi-
 dent-elect of Yale A. T. Hadley. of Our Nation, .. Adam
 Solo by Alonzo s. Osborn. Farewell address-Jerry Barrett Sulli-
 van.
 Lord is Great (''Priests'
 March" from "Athale")
 of diplomas-Mayor c. T.
 Driscol!.
 Song-Farewell, the
 Hour sAre Flying ,........... DonZetti
 Arranged from "Elisire D'Amore.') Solo by Miss Clara Asher go by unani-
 nous request of the class of '99. L. Babber, Angelt Blon- din, Alonzo s. Osborn, Frank L. Thornberry; pianist, Walter R. Cowles 1900.
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