The Mayor's Split Personality

Mayor Yesler was the recipient of an endorsement in the editorial columns of the Herald last evening. As a specimen, it is characteristic and decidedly unique. There were two editorials side by side. In column No. 1, we read that the Mayor has been elected to the highest municipal position by the will of the citizens for two successive terms, and it will be readily admitted by all that he has done his duty on the whole. In column No. 2, however, a sober assault is taken with an inborn agility and a skill only to be acquired by long-continued practice. Therein, the readers of the Herald are told that Mr. Yesler has been the leader of the municipal body of which he has been a member during the last two years. If there was any unpleasant duty to perform, the acting mayor was called on to do it, while the Mayor avoided being placed on record at the expense of one who had the backbone to do what he thought necessary. Had it not been for the acting Mayor, several of our prominent merchants would have been hurt and injured through the lack of courage of Mayor Yesler to do that which was clearly his duty in the premises. We are in doubt whether to condole with or congratulate his Honor the Mayor upon this singular tribute to his official career. Perhaps both would be in order.