Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-02
MAYOR-ELECT SAYS
employees MUST Be
RECOMMENDATION
IN FIRST PosT-ELECTloN STATE.
MENT G. V. 8. WEEKS TELLS
WHAT MUST CHARACTERIZE
CITY APPOINTMENTS UNDER
NEW COUNCIL.

NEW COUNCIL.
A large and enthusiastic meeting o
the North Side Improvement Associa
tin was held last evening in the audt
torium Of the Jetteron School. The
meeting was presided over by Mayor
elect Weeks. AS Mr.. Weeks reached
the presidents table he found hand
some silk umbrella. with his name
engraved on the handle, which was
presented him by the association.
A musical program which was
! greatly appreciated was given at the
/ opening OF the meeting Miss Lillian
! Biumberg gave a piano solo. Miss
/ Bertha Sundal sang THE Blackbird. q"
and was forced to respond to an en-
core, Miss Mary Cation played two
piano solos. Miss Margaret Scannen
played some selections from III Troya
tore and Miss Barbara Loehmueller
sang q solo.
ASKS About Mayors Support.
The business meeting then opened
Dut as there was no special business
20 De transacted, Thomas Malcolm re
1ueSted the mayor elect to tell the
people how he and the commissioners
were getting along at three prelimi
nary get-together meetings held b,
tAem Mr.. Malcolm declared that tho
fumor had gained circulation tha
some OF the commissioners were not
going to stand back of the mayor i,
mis- propositions. but that this was
hard to believe, as the commissioner
had each taken the platform at the
last meeting Of the organization and
pledged themselves to stand back oi
the mayor, the people Of North OF |
tawa and the people OF the city gen |
orally.
Denies Report of Dissention.
Mr.. Weeks responded. saying that
he did not know how such a rumor
gained circulation, as at the three
meetings the newly elected officers
aad held everything had gone han
He declared that the aciG
test Of the newly elected officers was
not what sort OF a stand they took
when they spoke from a public plat
form, but how they voted when an
issue came up He said that the frs,
thing the new administration would
be called upon to do was to make the
;ity appointments, and that at the
next meeting of the council he wOulG
explain just why he did not vote f6
certain men.
He told how he had run for election
III platform that was undOubtedly {
I potent factor in putting him in office
md that the majority of the people OF
he city were back of him. for if they | {
lad not been back of him he would |
laNe been defeated, as he had big in
erests out openly fighting him and t
,nly the common, ordinary people
yero fer him.
The appontive Offices of the city
le said, were Just as important as the
elective Offices, and that any man whC {
vas against him before the election
vas against the platform he was run
ing on and the theories he stood for
nd was still against them. He dc
Jared that II there was anything il
he vote of the people he was entitled
o the support of the city employees
hose in the major Offices, such a.
ity clerk. city attorney, police chic I
nd police captain as we'll as the sup (
ort OF the people, and if employees 4
tere put into these Cfices who were
pen.y against the platform on which | Il
e was running they would not carry \
ut his platform and theories properly +
He told of discussing city matters n
nth the fire chief Wednesday, when /.
g was informed that it would take ar
expenditure of $4,000 to put the pres +
Mt fire lighting organization in tht
Ondition it was needed to he in Thi.
m-down condition of the fire depart
lent was said to be due to the eff
Drts of the past administration t, hi
ay off the Citys Indebtedness insteao :,
f keeping the various departments in +
rSr-clasS shape, and the new admin a
'tration will have to spend time and =,
loney in building up the departments i
the city. X
Strong Against Gambling. il
He mentioned the things that were a
, be expected of the various city EN-
loyes and advocated that they all r
lust be on the job just the same. as d
lough they were working for a pri- "
ate individual. He declared that his
lethod of stopping the interurban
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