New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-09-24
THE TICKET.

With New York City's debt about equal to
the national debt, with the annual cost Of its
debt service S5OO0O,OOO a year and with the
budget rapidly approaching the S200O00O00
mark the problem of the city government for
the next few years is going to be largely
financial problem, and for that reason the NOM
ination OF Mr. Otto T. Barnard by the Repub-
lican convention will be generally recognized
as peculiarly happy. 1t would be impossible TO
find a man better qualified as the city's admin
istrative head and the presiding officer of the
Board Of Estimate and ApportiOnment 10 put
end TO the laundering finance which has
hitherto been characteristic of the city. One OF
the leading bankers of the city, he is accus
toned to the conduct Of large affairs, and he Is
better fitted TO give TO the administration OF
the city a businesslike character than any one
who has in many years been named for the
office of Mayor If elected, we should look TO
him with confidence TO bring order out of the
municipal chaos and to find means of checking
the enormous waste which is making the city
government so costly lie has the organizing
capacity and organizing experience which should
prove immensely useful to the city in its present
condition. He is a Republican, but of an in
dependent habit of mind, and his nomination
should appeal to every one who has the best
interests of the city at heart, to all classes of
Independent voters.
mirable selections. Mr.. Prendergast is better
city at large, but in Brooklyn he Is known as II
man who served with diligence and success as
Register. lie is q Republican, but he has that
quality which non-partsans applaud Of sink
ing his partisanshp in his service of the public
As Register he has never let politics interfere
with the efficiency of his office It is Il tribute
TO his qualifications that from the first he
seems to have been the practically unanimous
choice of the independents candidate for
Controller.
In naming Mr. Mitchell for Borough President
the Republican convention has ittingly recog-
nized unusual public service. As Commissioner
of Accounts Mr. Mitchell gave significance and
vitality to an Office which had hitherto been
nearly useless. His Investigations brought TO
light the bad administration of the bOroughS,
and as a result of them he probably has 4
wider and more intimate knowledge than any
other man of the actual conditions of the city
government His services as 4 member of the
Board of Estimate and Apportionment would be
invaluable. He is an independent Democrat
in politics and he is deservcdy strong with in
dependent voters all over the city
In placing the ticket in the field the Repub-
Iicans cut the GOrlian knot of fusion after
many fruitless efforts at an agreement. We
are confident that as a whole and individually,
the ticket will attract the support Of indie
pendent and public spirited citizens and to
get a ticket that would do this was the
object of the fusion conferences. Therefore
we hope that the ticket will have the approval
of the Committee of One Hundred. Two OF
the names on it are understood TO have been
that committees preference for the offices 10
which they have been nominated. and il is i'm
possible TO see any ground for the committees
taking exception to the third The nominations
embody the best hope of beating Tammany
Hall. and they should have the cordial sup
port of every one having that end at heart
Whatever the result, the efforts of the Com
mittee of One Hundred TO bring about the
nomination of Il ticket upon whose support the
friends Of good government could unite deserve
cordial appreciation. Especially has the chair
man of the committee Mr.. Outerbridge,
hihited the tact. good sense and broad minded
ness that were demanded by his trying task.
inexperienced in public affairs a few months
ago he has exhibited such capacity for them
that he will hardly be permitted to keep alOof
from them in the future.