Arizona republican., 1915-03-17
A Word to the People

There thigh glee i'll town among those citi- zens who deprecated the substitution year ago of a business like form of government for par tisan political spells system. They never believed they say that the commission manager form would work in Phoenix To their satisfaction, t has been proved a failure after a trial of little less than year. While they admit that the commission manager system has been satisfactorily and sue cessfully employed in some places in this country for three four years and in many places In Europe for many years, they say that conditions are not suited to it here When the case of Sumpter, S. C., is mentioned, we are told that the commission manager system is all right for very small towns, but when the case of Dayton, ono, is cited we are told that the system works well in very large cities. Phoenix is "betwxt and be- tween"
 The trouble lies no in the size or the lack O of Phoenix but the activity of partisan politicians the apathy otherwise good citizens and in the that made bad choice in the selection of our first commission which fur ther handicapped almost at the outset by the ma ohnations the politicians who succeeded in ere ating dssensions within the commission and then. setting the commission against the city manager.
 The manager loomed the only strong man in the municipal government He may have
 
 clear knowledge of what he wanted to do and how to do it. He found himself almost from the first without the backing of the commission which could not agree within itself to what ought to be done It has able to agree upon only one thing desire get rid of the ntractabe man. aeer by whom it constantly shamed for it's weakness and it's ncapacity.
 We to whether the commission can ha attemDted see whether the people willing to take an in- terest an active part in the controversy which has been brought to point. If 1t turn out that the commission, in such circumstances, dismiss the manager had better revert to the old spells system which with all it's waste and inefficiency had at least some merit of stability If people not willing take a personal interest in the pub business they had better leave it to the poli- cians who will be responsible, at least, to their parties. instead of leaving it to commission which is responsible to organization except shifting factions groups, thrown together by selfish aims.
 If the city manager can be removed by the commission in the manner in which it is attempt ing to remove MT. Parish the government will be proved to be unstable that no man would ac- cept appontive office under it unless he were incapable and worthless that he could not find private employment Employes would enter the service a last resort, with the intention of leav ing it at the first opportunity instead Of working proudly and whole -heartedly for it's upbuding
 We that the people of Phoenix do not go back to the old spells system We sure that they do want the commission ger system to fall low that it will become only a temporary refuge for the incapable and the desirable
 The Republican calls upon the people of Phoe nix regard the commission manager system a failure but repair the mistake have made and at the first opportunity and every portunty, elect to the commission who will make a of the system
 The time has when the work undertaken by the Committee of One Hundred and Twenty five more than year should be completed. The main object of that committee the selec- tion of business men of standing and without gard to party, for membership of the commission. It is the duty of such men to give themselves this object. That duty has been made ni peratve by recent events.