Arizona republican., 1902-04-13
LONDON'S REAL MAYOR.
He Has Not the Title anc Draws No
 Salary.

London.-London really got a new mayor last week without knowing it. The reason the fact was overlooked is ttat the man thus honored simply does the work, he gets no pay and no glory.
 As almost everybody knows, the Lord Mayor of London" is mayor of only tiny patch usually called the city, in the heart of the metropolis, and has nothing to do With the rest of London. which is controlled by tha London county council. And even the lord mayors little "city" has to take orders in many matters from the coun- ty council.
 That wonderful body has just chosen new chairman. John McDougall. whose position corresponds as closely as possible in the circumstances, with the mayor of an American city. The chairman is elected by the members of the council. who. in their turn, are elected by the direct vote of the people. The office which MT. McDougall now fills is the most responsible one in the gift of the people of the metropolis. Its first holder was the earl Cf RostberN. who resigned it to become premier of ! England. Yet, whereas, the real mayor | gets no salary. the gorgeous Lord mayor gets exactly Is much d year as , the president of the United States, and has a costly official residence besides. 1 The lord mayor drives about in his great gilt coach. with his powdered coachman and footman perched there on and his mace of office sticking out i of the window, while the real head of | the metropolis goes on foot unrecog- nized. The official lord mayor wears robes of silk and satin, trimmed with 1 ermine, and is attended by a suite which eclipses in splendor that which accompanies the king himself. The real lord mayor dresses like any othei citizen, and he has no suite at all. The official lord mayor is made knight on i taking his office and is generally given a baronetcy on relihquishing it. The real lord mayor has no title for per quisite. Almost any man of ordinary ability, provided he be rich, can make a satisfactory lord mayor of London and lay corner stones anG give state banquets and send telegrams of sym 1 pathy to crowned heads and do all the other purely ceremonious things that the lord mayor has to do, but it take= an uncommonly capable man to mal.e a good chairman of the London county council. He must be a man of iron
 too, for the council meets frequently and sits long and its chairman has, be l sides presiding over it's regular meet inSs, to serve on sevcrai Of its mos: l important committees.
 But John McDougall is just that sort
 of man. He made a fortune in bust
 ness before he was 45 and then went
 into politics. In England men ire
 quently go into politics for/the sake o1
 their principles, and this was MT. Mo
 DOugall's case. There were severa
 things which he wanted to see re-
 formed, among them the navigation ol
 the river Thames, and state asylum:
 and the London music halls.
 Nhe halls" needed some one to re
 form them. Songs were sung and joke:
 told on the stage there that would b,
 hissed now. MT. McDougall's crusad,
 from making him popular. however
 In fact. he became about the bes
 hated man in London. He hammered
 away, however, just as if his window:
 were not being broken, his mail filled
 with threatening letters and his effort.
 ridiculed in the papers. Some of hi: 1 best friends deserted him, but LOT,
 Rosebery and other prominent mem
 bers of the council took his part ant
 he won out and the good results of hi! campaign are now so apparent that h. < is as much admired as he was once for merly disliked. In the council he rep resents Poplar, one of the poorest O q Lcndon boroughs.-K2nsaS City Star. / -p--