The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-08
THE PEOPLE CE RALEIGH WILL
HAVE TO TRY AGAIN.

THE PEOPLE CE RALEIGH WILL
HAVE TO TRY AGAIN.
The people of Raleigh will have
to try again, if the result of the
first star chamber performance OF
the majority OF the new Board OF
Aldermen is to be a sample OF the
new Boards work.
Never in the history of the city
have there been SO many expressions
of outrage and indignation as were
heard yesterday when the people
read the action of the close corpo-
ration composing the majority OF
the Board on Wednesday night.
Some of the selections were unit
under any condition in a city as
respectable as Raleigh. Some of the
men denied a second reelection
were the fittest public officials
Raleigh has ever known. The in
justice and wrong and star-cham-
nounced by tho people of Raleigh,
even when there was no objection
to the person selected. It seems
at a majority of the members
a secret caucus, attended only
hose who were in the combine"
ed upon a slate. and after
g. Ia
ate they had secretly selected.
method of itself is not the
he people wish to see Raleigh
Jed and if a vote could have
ISen in Raleigh yesterday
e would have Numbered
gapprova1 of the methods
alton that owners of lots in the
City Cemetery declared that the
new keeper should not set foot
upon their lots, and the majority
hastened to secure the resignation
of the man selected. Some other
designations would be popular and
in the interest OF good government
if they can be procured. As to the
policemen, this is true: Some of
the men unceremoniously dropped
arc among the best men ever en-
ployed on the Raleigh police force
and their dismissal has no justifi
cation OF excuse.
Inc people will have to try again
unless the majority radically
changes it's course. The minority
Aldermen, who were not even given
G. hearing-(aIl arc Democrats and
entitled to an equal voice)-wcre
yesterday urged to resign and issue
n statement to the people of Raj
cigh telling Of the un-Democratic
actions ef the majority. They
ought to give the people the fulles:
information, but they ought not to
resign. They ought to remain on
the Board to expose wrong actions,
star-cilambcr methods, improper
appointments, and secure publicity
of every action of the Board. IF
the first meeting is sample of
all the future meetings. there will
ho need of six or seven men to con-
tinual1y protest against the
methods and actions Of the majori-
ty, to tho end that the best popular
sentiment of the city may find ex-
preston IN the city government.
The Mayor and the minority of the
Beard, excluded from all real par
ticipation in the selection of Of
ficials OF committees, have a duty
to perform TO the public. That
duty will demand that they secure
the monthly publication of every
dollar expended and every action
taken. They can expose any policy
that looks to committee rule, boss
rule, family rule, special privilege,
and the like, and guarantee to all
citizens that they shall know all
that is done, and know where to
place the responsibility.
The Augusta Chronicle brought forty
thousand dollars under receivers sale.
It's new owners, Mr.. Cabincss and Mr..
Loyless, are among the best newspaper
men in the whole South. They make
the Chronicle all that a city paper ought
>fo no