South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-29

being unable to find anything else with It,
and knowing that the Carson aggregation is SINH
larry convinced anticipates that there is a trick
in the lack Of Carson resistance.-for the playing
Ct which a trap been set
Get the Seebirt angle, II the Seebirt angle
e. least the angle Of his most trusted Heutenants
Ir. seebirt himself, understand and his lieu
tenants WELL it understood that he
advised against the institution OF the nandamus
suit. but be that It may it comes from his
camp; the camp OF the republican candidates much
aligned with him. and Of the republican city
mittee, using the gentleman stool
pigeon" or nominal plaintiff. as was employed by
the seebrt faction IN gushing through its election
Of a city chairman. He so indelicately held the
putting that that the seebirt organ ad
nlitted itself the time TO have been OF sym
pathy with It. And now the excuse.
Suppose they say the law is unconstitutional or
the proceedings under It so irregular they
be set aside II So It is maintained. the would
continue after the commission has taken Of
fee. They see anticpations OF this in Clerk Biln-
skis report-which they insinuate may have been
framed from Carson headquarters.-and in what
they fear-as a linguistic substitute for hope-is
the improper method of calling the election by the
council Next they claim have bunch from
somewhere that it is the plan Of the Carson
schemers to let the referendum election
having the primary postponed, though IL
legal, then attack after the election If it
carries-by restraining election OF commissioners.
their taking office after elected. In the case
there would be no election next fall were the suit
successful in the other the result would be the
same with reference to taking Office and Mayor
Carson. and all present city officials would hold
for another four years-or until their success
sor could be duly elected and qualified
And. we'll be frank about it. after expert
ence in watching its handing of the thinner
Dambacher liquor cases. resorting to all sorts OF
legal entanglements to thwart the law, one might
be surprised such a pursued If
egalists behind the Carson administration had the
fantest hope of succeeding with it. Therefore
might say that if there must be lot of litigation
over this thing to satisfy "unconstitutionaT
yers and the commission manager plans political
antagonists it might as well come now as ever and
perhaps better. The Unconstitutional" lawyers
have ever with US and everything is wrong with
them, you know though but once in 81 times, &C
cording legal statistics, they out TO be rghC.
it was they who contested the consttutonay oe
the Webb Kenyon law, the Indiana prohibition act.
the 18th and 18th amendments and the Volstea1
code, and so we might go ndehnitey-not
these same local "unconstitutionaT lawyers, but
lawyers Of the same negative" minds trained in
the same school
But that is secondary. We wonder If it
certain that the Carson crowd had no such idea,
it would make any considerable difference the
Seebirt adherents Aye, there's the rub Our guess
IS that least quite as much the suit is
friendly to the commission manager cause, it IS
calculated to serve to all supporters of that
cause away from Carson, by fixing a suspicion OF
him firmly upon their minds be used against
kim in case the suit does fail. and the referendum
io lost
Clever politics! The seebirt Heutenants will over
Iavv md
ceedings if they can, and if they can't they have
laid their wires to let Carson take the blame for
their trying 1.-THE blame consisting of a fctional
possibility that his opponents dangling before
the public eye reason for their action. We
congratulate the strategst whose imagination
ceived the bright idea to say the least: that is
congratulate him upon his imagination, if it
imagination, which maybe it and maybe it
wasn't Carson is the goat" whichever way 1t
works
Aside from which of course the case must be
left to the courts. This comment has only to do
with the politics of it-politics which as we have
repeatedly said since the movement started its
every turn in its attitude toward that movement
proving the desrability of getting it out of our
municipal governmental system; veritable
tyranny, the elimination of which the pur-
poses for which the commission manager plan was
conceived.
Architects say that the worlds most beautiful
bank building is in Owatonna. MINI. This must
make New York drummers foam at the mouth.
Speaking of mathematics do you realize how
many make a million? Very few.
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Do you remember when you used to see IS gold
pieces circulation?