Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-05-01
POOR SPORTSMEN.

The attitude of the Evening Herald toward the
present city commission Is unfair, ungenerous and
impolitic. Being chagrined and angered by the
rebuke administered to it in the city election that
paper seems determined from the beginning to
heckle the commissioners and to handicap them in
their efforts to effectively serve the C ty Public
opinion should sit on" selfish an effort to play
politics at the expense Of the city.
The commission is criticised for not leaving IT
to City Manager Gladding to fill vacancies. This
is absurd AS well leave 1t to Messrs Connell, Nc
Laughlin and Reynolds. Gaddng was their man
and did their bidding. The election was repudia-
ton by the people of his administration. He rec
ogized it as such and promptly resigned He is
frankly out of harmony with the new commission
ers and is merely serving out of courtesy. pending
the selection OF a new manager He should be I'M
willing to settle any question of appointment on
his own initiative. This responsibility belongs to
those whose records will suffer a result Of any
mistake.
The only reasonable difference of opinion would
be to whether or not all changes should have
awaited the selection Of new manager.
The effort of the Herald to have it appear
that all questions of hiring and dscharging en-
ployes has been left to Mr.. Gladding in the past Is
an attempt to mislead the public. For instance
he was ordered to write the letter discharging the
fremen who organized. The commission settled
that entire matter.
the re-hiring of of the discharged firemen
means the unionizng of the department. Evidently
the old commission regarded him competent,
for they offered to keep him IL he would abandon
the union. He declined to do so then, but has since
withdrawn.
Advantage Is taken of his unemployment to
raise the ghost of the recall election. People are
led to believe that there is danger Of the unionz-
ing of the department. Nothing Is further from
the truth The commission Ia committed to the
proposition that city employees are not to be per-
mitted to unonize. Were that question in issue the
journal would stand precisely where it stood during
the recall fight,
If any prediction promises were made the
Journal knew nothing Of them. We certainly made
none put our approval upon any.
There is danger that the new commissioners
will violate the spirit of the charter any than
the old commission did. When city manager is
chosen Chief Henderson will be compelled to sat
isfy him of his efficiency in order to hold his posi-
ton. He was 80 informed by the commission.
The Journal was not satisfied with the old COM
mission. Nevertheless we did nothing to handicap
them through unfavorable or unfair criticism
When Governor Mechem elected governor, the
journal lent prompt support to his announced pro-
gram set out in his message to the legislature
and began criticisms many months later and then
only after the governor had shown weakness and
paralysis unparalleled by any governor of whom
we have any knowledge.
For the Herald to make It manifest that It in.
tends to put every possible stumbling block in the
way of the new commission. 10 a public outrage
Thomas Hughes city commissioner and business
manager of the Herald. has said openly that HI
will resort to every possible method to hinder
successful administration. These men pool
sportsmen