The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-02-19

instead Of definitely settling the ma
Ter. precipitatc continued agitation
and call for another EXTENSION -
years hence.
Indignation Meeting Proposed.
Yesterday there was a movement.
which was being seriously constdcr-l
bv good men looking 10 q mass NEE
ing Of Raleigh 10 enquire into the
state Of Il legislator and 70 deteTm'hs
for of future uldance
whether or not any such pledge -
that charged was made. II 80, D
whom and 10 whom. 10 come % al
understanding. also. as To whether Is
should be possible in Wake county
for 4 legislator elected BY all the pee
PIE 10 make q pledge u Whlch tnde
was never q syllable uttered u Sus-
eested during the primary WHeitos
such legislator or legislator ~ Nninn7
popular election-agreed TO sell out
he popular demand on the consider
alton Of private votes.
Tbis p good sign. 1t is TO be hoped
mat the mass meeting will come ana
that ii viii speak 50 that it can be
heard around the corner.
The Board Coed to Its Own.
The Board Of Aldermen, however,
could not refrain in proposing o chaf-
ter, even when governed by Such dlS-
e,a ceful fears from remembering SUB
81 nllIIIN Inc i'aiIb IL 49,
circle must have been enlarged. /
must not be true that everybody IS
provided for. 1t was Impossible lof
the board to look at q new chartef
that did not carry som" new oHlceS.
When il came to considering the new
offices the board becafn" lul ~ III
tercSt.
When the charter was revised before
the men who are not too busy to run
the city, got busy and made a ponce
JUSTICE; also, they made a Board OF
Audit and Finance and a clerk; also,
they talked large and near of 'ousi-
ness methods" and of a clean city
and reform. If any one ever hears
Of the Board Of Audit and Finance
except when somebody is running Tor
membership. this paper is not adVer-
tent to the fact; if the Board Of Audit
n Finance ever did anything more
than to get up one, or maybe two,
city history. The police justice bust
ness has been heard of more fire.
quently but to little more effect. 1t
has presided in all the dignity Of a
new office owe the case of DRINKS. IL
it has dissipated any evil, stopped any
one Of the score of open and tlagrant
abuses against law. morals and de-
cency. no one has heard Of it. There
is a wen-grounded impression that
the Court Of the Police Justice and
the institution Of the Board of Audit
and Finance are VermifOrm
OF. equal mystery Of purpose If vary
ing degrees of irritation. Yet the Board
of Aldermen, looking up a new charter
could not refrain from h temptation
Of making the Police Justices Court
a more palpable delusion than at
present by increasing the salary n
expense of it's maintenance.
The Automatic Police Commission.
But the prize action of the Board
was to cudgel from it's brain the
dream of a se1f-perpetuating Board OF
Police Commissioners. These worthy
gentlemen were to be named in the
charter-by the Board of Aldermen
and afterwards they We're to name
themselves. They were to receive
each 5000 q year and one OF them was
permitted to be a secretary with $1oo
additional. Their while they were
about it, the Board of Aldermen just
wrote it in the charter that the alder
men should receive 500 each per
year for their valuable services. 1t
was doubtless figured out that the
letter-signing legislator who was
careful about city expansion when it
came to the limits of the city would
not be so restricted in his notions
when it came to the internal eXpan-
sion Of the Board of Aldermen in the
| way of offices.
Voted for Himself.
1t was after it was all written in the
charter that the only hitch came about
the caucus of the Board. Three Com
missionerS We're to be elected to fill the
three blank spaces. The slate had been
fixed. Mr.. William Grimes-Who did
not want the iob-Was to be n COM
missioner: Mr.. William Boylan was to
be another: Mr.. Nick DebOy was to be
a tniHl. 1t vas al fixed, until one
alderman ISL ted Gil voting for him
self and preventing an election. This
gentleman insisted that nowhere could
| there be found such police commits
| sioners as existed in the aldermanic
body Of the city. After two hours of
pleading nothing could be done. But
think how it would loOk!" they argued
with the reCalcitrant one. The recall
citrant one was firm. If they must
have MI. Deboy. Why then put him on
and let Mr.. Crimes or Mr.. Boylan walk
the plank. Neither the supporters of
Mr.. Crimes nor Mr.. Boylan would
agree to this proposition. AS q result
the Commissioners. as the act will now
read. are TO be first elected by the
people. They are to have terms of six.
four and two ears and they are to
perpetuate themselves 1t is an alder
manic conception
'.VOuldn't This Jar You?"
Raleigh does not blush with pleasure