The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-05-06
THE NEW ADMINISTRATION.

HE NE w ADMlNlSI RAIlON.
Moscow today has a partially new
administration. The officers who will
rule the town have been chosen by
the voters and the mayor, thus elect
ed, has filled the appointive offices
He has reappointed some and has
failed to reappoint others who were
in the employ of the old administra-
ton, but the men chosen to succeed
those who were not reappointed, are
not strangers nor are they untried.
Grant Robbins, the new chief of po-
lice, has filled that position with
credit to himself and to Moscow and
Mr.. STANDBY, who is to be his as
sistant, has also served in that ca
pacity and his work was satisfactory.
Mr.. Suppiger, the new city attorney,
is one of Moscow's representative
citizens. The councilmen who took
their seats for the first time in the
council chamber last night, are men
well known and respected.
But we want to say word of COM
mendation for those who retire. j.
C. Stillinger, who has been chief of
police during Mayor TRUTHS admin
istration, has done his work faith
fully and well and leaves the office
with a clean record and the respect
of his fellow citizens. The same can
truthfully be said of Mr.. Sampson,
his assistant, and of g. G. Pickett,
retiring city attorney, DR.. Adair, re-
firing health officer, Mayor Truitt,
one of Moscow's foremost citizens,
who has never failed to do his duty
under any circumstances and to the
retiring councilmen,
1.-THE Star Mirror, believing it voices
the sentiment of big majority of
the people of Moscow, wishes to
thank each of these retiring officers,
collectively and Individually for their
unselfish devotion to their duty, their
energetic and Successful work for the
betterment of conditions in Moscow
and for uniform courteous treatment
during their tenure of office. They
leave office with the friendship, re-
spect and gratitude of the people of
Moscow. They did their work we'll
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WHY LEAGUE CONTINUES.
Opponents of the nonpartisan |
league continue to find comfort in
developments in North Dakota and
the two or three other states where !
the league has gained foothold. !
According to reports received at
headquarters of the Capitalist par
ties" in Washington, or given out
from there, the league is being kept
alive in North Dakota for the sole
purpose of electing Gov Lynn j.
Frazier to the United States Senate
in place of Senator McCumber. This
seems to be a rather extreme case of
acapitalist" optimism. A similar re-
port from Idaho is not quite so diff
cult to credit. This is that the party's
reason for continued existence there
is the hope of rejecting Senator Nu-
gent, who obtained the appointment
of H. F. Samuels, a league member,
to make economic studies abroad. In
it is said chat the leagues !
object is to advance the political for /;
tunes of two former members of Con-
gress who have been useful to the
league. There is, however, good rea {
son to think that these cynical opin- I
ions are fathered by hostile wish,
and that the interesting labor-ag- :
rarian experiment in the Northwest c
IS not yet on it's last legs-Spring- t
Field Republican. "
Moscow must not be selfish in the :