Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-12-28
MAYOR AND COUNCIL.

The fears expressed by many con-
.ervatiye citizens, and voiced to some
extent by this paper, that partisan
strife is to be continued In our muhiel-
ma, affairs. is confirmed by the new at
titude presented by the champion Oh
the nartigan movement. That organ
now noses as the advocate OF the SUI
nreme mower OF the City Council, ana
the delegation Of the Mayor to his OF
f,cial chamber without power 10 ac'
either IN an executive or Legislative
capaoity. This Is now the doctrine
az announced by the organ aforesaid
"As has constantly been affirmed
here, and thoroughly demonstrated
time and again, the Council is the reai
government, even TO the issue OF ex,
ecutive orders including the reai
designation of incumbents 10 the oi-
Ulcers that are appointiVe'
We do not know where our contem-
porary obtained its data, OF excuse
for presenting such statement as that
this notion has constantly been aiiirm-
cd" But that paper now enunciates
It, and we believe 1t is the frst time
Il has been asserted by any person OF
journal in these parts. We cannot hnd
AZ In any previous issue II the Tribune.
on the contrary, we could produce
many pages Of its contentious that the
Mayor alone was ut" and 1.-The Coun-
ell has no executive authority what
ever
Not only has that publication berated
the city Council for refusing to APP
prove the Mayors appointments put
abused members OF II for opposing the
tricks resorted to for the purpose Oh
evading and overcoming the lawfui au-
thority vested In that body. And 1t
advocated legislative enaotments 10
deprive the Council OF the power Oh
confirmation. Here are two or three ex-
tracts from its columns on this, sub
ject;
III Is all moonshine to pretend that
the Mayor must be held In leading
strings and has everywhere been touha
disastrous and costly Tribune, FED
8, 1908.
When a bill was introduced in the
Legislature to vest the one-man power
In the Mayor as advocated by that
paper It said
IF any further argument were need
ed In support of the bill TO give the MAY
or the untrammeled power OF appoint
ment, the City Council IL about 10 sup
plv IL In case rumors are correct
Tribune, Feb. 20, 1903
lttl 1afa cd "A
Council did not confirm an appointed
OF the Mayors the same paper onere'
this inapplicablc argument
LET us suppose the manager OF
large business concern, instead OF nav
ing the authority TO originate and carr
out a business policy, were met u
every turn by the impa ssable VIII OF
board of directors which would clall
the right, not only to originate every
thing itself, to stop him II he under
tnaw to 40 ANYTHING: to refuse conser
10 his appointees as clerks ana ASSIST
ants and 10 withhold pay TO employee
and money for needed expenditure
What sort of a record would genera
manager make under such e,eun
stances? What chance Woulu ~
stockholders have for DIVIDENDS AZ
indeed would the concern escape VII
aster and collapse.
rhere is so much diffusion or pow
that nobody has authority TO DO an!
thing and everybody KNOWS tnat VI
ia 20. and everybody presumes up'
it.-Tribune March ~, 1903
Such a change Of front in our con'en
porary is not surprising when we COZ
sIder it's record for inconsistency III
excuse offered now Is that
III is intmated that the Mayor mas
nroeramme TO put through when M
by its partisanship put him out OF ma
n,ony with the Council, and that
such case Il Is the duty OF the Coun
70 yield and let the Mayor nave
way"
Who has eliminated" this? Nobo
that we have heard OF except the W.T.
or OF that paragraph. II he refers
the present Mayor and his course WI
the Council and the Trlbune's endor'
ment Of it, that is history But II
known that the incoming Mayor desi'
10 recognize the rights of the Coui
and the claims OF both parties u
fused in his election TO proper cons
Grafton.
The Deseret News has advised q
sultaton, harmony and the avoida'