The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-25
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THE PARK COMMISSION.
When Wfii the Minority Allow the Peo- pie to Have Their Wayf

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 Editor The Advertiser:
 patient. long-suffering public would like to know, with due apolo- gies for its temerity. when the deftly maneuyering minority in the City tually reflect the will of the people and take up the election of Park Com missioners for Montgomery.
 For six months the thoughtful att tention of Montgomery citizens, both men and women, has been directed 10 the cleansing, improving and beautity- ing of our city. >Ihe movement cuILn.- cerned in a formal request presented by a committee of ten from the Com mercial and Industrial Association to the City Council for the election or permanent Park Commission, similar to those established in other cities
 So far as the women were concern : mass meeting of the Civic League held in the City Council chamber. over whose enthusiastic deliberations the Acting Mayor himself presided; or which the Chairman of the Finance Committee was the zealous secretary, and before which various aldermanlc candidates read lengthy papers pro, claiming their advocacy of any and all measures looking to the improvement and beautifying of our city, Ih all this active and unselfish campaign no discordant note was struck
 But, and mark 1t well, all th1s oc- cured before the municipal election. . Now let us consider the post election situation.
 The Acting Mayor is confessedly in- different; the whilom Secretary Q, tho Civic League mass meeting Is actlvely opposing the matter, while several oi the aldermen profess they. see annoy . from the Park Commissioners Tor large appropriations in that direction which said future City Councils might Msnv nlsin thini,inr people might guardians of all future City Councils, that this dreadful possibility m1lgas algas who will compose those future ,clty Councils--and who, perhaps, should pc accredited with sufficient common E, ,al propriate money in this direction if the city could not then afford 1t.
 But is this alleged reason an hones5i | one? Perhaps With some M is, thfs spacious argument was hrst launcheu, aldermen voted away S1,OSO year or l the peoples money for lieutenant oI police. who the chief himself alleges is unnecessary and superfiuous one 1 cannot but call in question the singte- ness of purpose of aldermen, Wno SD on the treasury at sometime in the dinl and distant future, who in the same patriotic breath vote perma- nent and unnecessary charSe upon I an
 
 | Huous officer whose salary is to com mence at once. T.,
 But there should be no trouble in | meeting this fancled objection where | 1t is honestly held If the incoriing administration wants time in which 10 l look around and adjust itself to its | financial clothes, the Council can easlIy l provide in the election of Park Com missioners that no appropriations arc 10 be asked for by them ~ifhin ,I,1 rH1 | | answer every legitimate objection In a businesslike way, If oppositi94hhss d1ms 4hs | people will be forced to look elsewhert' | for the real underlying reason for such | if is a fact that the majority of the Council are in favor of electing at once an intelligent influential at.t ParK l Commission, but an active minority. hy speciously urging cGntinuons nest nest ponement are cleverly outwltl'ns | them. And in the meantime. the pe"- ole are patiently waiting for the Coun = l nil to do what it promised before the l municipal election so unanimously to | perform. One or MdhE'