Word: mayors
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...Italian Ambassador at Washington, Commandatore Edmondo Mayor des Planches, accompanied by Count Gaetani and Count di Campello, President of the Circolo Italiano of Boston, were yesterday the guests of the University. The party took luncheon with President Eliot and in the afternoon, accompanied by President Eliot and Mr. J. D. Greene, visited the University Boat House, Soldiers Field, the Gymnasium, the Law School, Memorial Hall, the Union and the University Museum...
Previous to holding his present position as the head of the University Settlement Mr. Hunter was identified with reform in Chicago. He succeeded Mr. J. B. Reynolds, now secretary to Mayor Low, and has already been very successful in his new position...
...next rebuttal speech for Princeton was given by Blair. He said that it has been contended that we have confidence in the people to elect mayors capable of using discretion in the enforcement of the law. We must remember however, that it is not the mayor, but the patrolmen who will actually use the discretion in regard to the saloons. Further more, if you say that the mayor has discretion, what will be the limits of that discretion? Shall he allow one saloon, or all saloons to be open on Sunday? Shall he exercise discretion in regard to this...
...last rebuttal for Harvard was delivered by Clark. He said that while it has been contended that under any system other than strict enforcement there will be a great deal of black-mail, yet there was no black-mail in Brooklyn during Mayor Low's administration, when a discretionary policy was pursued in regard to the excise law. It has been furthermore shown that the only effect of Mr. Roosevelt's so-called strict enforcement of the law was to raise the price of black-mail for keeping open saloons on Sunday from $5 to $10. We have an executive...
Anthony closed the debate as third affirmative in rebuttal. He showed that lax enforcement of the law would not necessarily insure Mayor Low's return to office next year. The great principle of the reform administration is reform and nothing else will satisfy those who elected Mayor Low. But even if defeated Mayor Low should not commit blackmail by promising to connive at the law in return for votes. The principle advanced by the negative is one of local anarchy. The statute says that the Mayor shall enforce the law and the people have declared themselves in favor of enforcement...