Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-03-02
STAND BY THE LAW!


The Deseret News has stated, repeat
eddy that the ordinance which was
decapItated in the City Council on Mon
day night needed amendment, and that
wherein It appeared to give the Mayor
authority as TO appointments without
the concurrence OF the City Council II
was faulty. But few verbal changes
would have easily remedied the appar-
ent wrong
The Deseret News stands today for
the rights OF the council just where 1t
has always stood, as well as for the
rights Of the Mayor. 1t would not have
either OF them lnfrlnged. The appoint
Ing power OF the Mayor Is undoubted
but It is TO b. made effective "by the
advice and consent OF the city Council"
That is all we have contended FOR In
this connection at any time, We main
tain II now. But the initiative must be
taken by the Mayor.
The council has no lawful right to
make appointments and present them to
the Mayor for his approval, nor 10 say
TO that officer you may make such and
such selections, and II you don't we
Will "balk' you and resist all you
attempt to do, This course is recon-
mended and insisted upon by the organ
Of the faction that Is blocking the way
to an equitable settlement of the pres
ent dispute and which demands that
the Mayor shall stop exercising the
right and duty imposed upon him by
law relating to this matter,
The Mayor has made no raids"
upon the council nor interfered
with Its rights In any partic-
ular, II any proposition has been
made by member or members Of that
body which would curtal the lawful
powers Of the council, II should be voted
down or expunged. That Is our posi-
ton today. and always has been. Let
every public official be sustained In
the exercise Of his lawful authority,
just that and nothing more. 1t would
be a very easy matter TO settle the diff
hculties In view, II the public welfare
instead OF private schemes and fac
ti0nal advantage were subordlnated to
the interests Of this municipality.
Since the foregoing was In type our
attention has been called to an attempt
Of the Salt Lake Tribune, to make out
that 1.-THE News Reverses Itself" The
effort is miserable failure. In the
first place Isolated passages are picked
out Of News editorials without the
explanatory context In the second
place remarks of the Tribune itself are
substituted for News paragraphs,
and In each instance a direct falsehood
is told by the Tribune in order to es-
tabllsh an apparent contradiction, In
the third place there is not the slight
est inharmony between the position OF
the News" correctly stated. at former
times and that which 1t occupies today,
We stand for the right of the Mayor
TO appoint by and with the advice
and consent Of the city Council" We
do not and never did claim that he can
or should do so without that concur
renee We never claimed, as the TrIb-
une did, that the Council had no other
preroeatiye but to do what the Mayor
dictated We endorse and repeat all
that this paper uttered edltorlally on
this question In 1908, and claim that II
Is IN perfect accord with what we have
said on this subject In 1904.
We are not surprised that the Trib-
une has interpolated its own comments
as "paraller(O to garbed quota
lions from our columns, az It's adoption
Of unjournalistIc and untruthful tao.
tics In order to mlsrepresent an oppon-
ent Is very widely notorious. But how
much It must desplse itself, for its own
contemplate meanness