The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-05-16
Editorial Page Of The Detroit Times

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WANTED: A PEOPLES LOBBY TO
PROTEST THE CHART Err BOARD
people organize lobby protect the charter commission
politicians and allow to write into the new charter few "
y reforms that sorey needed by DetrOitl
Il would
The people defeat reforms the cry
d in the city hall It every Office udest of all from the
where the aldermen gather Wherever good government
destroy personal advantage there hear the cry
heard it. and majority OF its members
~ seriously unwilling make drastic changes In our
Eknndamental law.
Detroit will spend $s45O for salaries $4,000
Lore for special election submission Of the charter-ovr
&1o0 Oo0-for WHAT
The only changes in the charter majority make
6o4pear to be-
The abolition Of of estimates
change years the and other
h kty omcerA
change fall spring elections
of the present Seventeenth and Eight
nth wards.
few minor changes present which amount
E4p merely the elimination of obsolete sections.
this all people Detroit spending $4,000 for
Every changes with the possible exception Of the
city national elections could have been obtained
the council and subsequent popular VOTE just the municipal
adopted and cent Of the cost of
charter commission
M What then do people
They reforms which other cities
enjoying Pittsburgh with their small councils
el Denver with their commission
Some Of the commissioners already begun complain the
causing the people lose faith in the commission by find
E1ne fault with its
What commission justify the peoples fah7
has voted down the commission form and has given
will the commission aterna
EGs proposition
-atarg plan choosing
Eeh will probably submit that the people
Essaas amendment
dgarded expressed wishes people who
favor choosing by popular election the members Of the street
R1Nm
22ooo point. out
who favor the election rather than the appointment the street
Bsalway board
In short the majority
plan give people greater their officials
has voted for that will increase the Of the heads Of
~ administration will leave them with their
{unahsted
President Dust is sincere in his
He does believe the government
council elected large in the election Of street railway
Milsion BY the people.
The his Stand questions they him.
They knew that he honest that he fair that he
nd they believed then believe now that willing give tho
1eps what they wann he able to learn what they want
There other members the commission who political pre-
and hope from the people tho
EmyQmt Of the politicians Of their
These do not what the people the city Detroit
They hear what their little clique
Aldermen; their aldermen
give them the moral support OUTAGE the people, they realize
- reforms carried they will become political nonenitss
These the weak the
yAom the people must modern charter submitted
*1eers
Apparently people must secure lobby to ounteract the effect
he politicians lobby which everpresen
4 ~ Of personal gain and machine rule.
Though few aldermen during
- charter commission took Thursdays
large
W They stood in the Of the watched the
ne from their wards represented Eighth Eleventh.
4fA Thirteenth Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth wards
Under their glare the commissioners the Twelfth
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