The Missing Marshal
A city council committee tries to force the resignation of the town marshal, but the official simply fails to show up for the meeting.
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Chairman Schorn, of the council committee on police, recently requested the resignation of Ben McMurtry as marshal. The latter stated that his resignation would be placed before the board at the next regular meeting, and as a consequence, candidates began to bob up serenely and button-hole councilmen and others who are supposed to have influence with the municipal dads, but the council met and the council adjourned and neither the marshal put in an appearance nor was his resignation filed. This so astonished the statesmen of the corporation that no action was taken, but at least one of them swears that at the next meeting of the board charges will be preferred if the resignation isn’t forthcoming. The leading candidates for the position are H. D. Cock, Phil Stanton and J. M. Henderson.
“This so astonished the statesmen of the corporation that no action was taken.”
Bureaucratic brinkmanship and the maneuvering of political aspirants around municipal positions are evergreen civic themes in Washington towns, echoing current local election cycles.
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