Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1908 — SOME NEW NEEDED REFORMS. [ARTICLE]

SOME NEW NEEDED REFORMS.

The coming legislature should enact a few laws for the benefit of the people, and among these should be the repeal of the metropolitan police law, and give -the cities themselves the right to make their own selections for police commissioners instead of having it done for them by the governor. The cities and towns law should also be amended tn -many ways and ;restore to the people the right to elect their own peace officers. I The county council law and the township reform law should be i amended so as to make the county council and township advisory boards bi-partisan—the dominant party to have four and the "under dog” three members on the county council, and two and one on the advisory boards. Then the law would be of some real benefit, which It is not at present. Boards of county commissioners should also be madp bl-partisan, the dominant party having, the two members and the minority party one. Everbody— except the would-be grafters—ought to favor an honest and economical admfnstration of local affairs ajt least, gad no one can gainsay that the general public would not be greatly benefltted by the reforms above mentioned.