Sacramento Daily Record Union

EQUAL TO EMERGENCIES.

What Mayor Gregory Has Accomplished During His Term of Office.

The following editorial, which appeared in the Themis of yesterday, has our unqualified indorsement:

Eugene J. Gregory has occupied the position of Mayor of this city during the most critical times. His financial and executive abilities have been put to the severest tests, and we are in a position, from our knowledge of municipal affairs, to say that he has proved himself equal to emergencies, even though at times badly handicapped by theorists and impracticable advisors. To his judicious management of that incubus—the city debt—the city has been absolved from hundreds of thousands of dollars liabilities. He has, with the weak machinery at his command under the old charter, carried on the government of the municipality in the most economical manner, and his whole object and aim has been for the benefit of our people. The only obstacles that have been thrown in the way have been against his advice and earnest opposition, he being a minority in the local legislature. Every move and step taken by Eugene J. Gregory in our local self-government has been in the interest of the public; nothing of a selfish nature has ever actuated him in the affairs of the city. The experience and knowledge of municipal matters, acquired within his term of office, has better fitted him for another term. It is very difficult to acquire a full knowledge of our wants and necessities in one term, but Mayor Gregory has accomplished very much during his administration, and is now in position to render lasting service to the people in carrying out the line of action laid out. Feeling and knowing that Mayor Gregory has the interests of the city at heart, and that he is honest and capable, we strongly urge upon the citizens to see to it that he is retained as the chief executive of our city another term, and until he consummates the splendid work he has thus far so successfully carried on.

We hear some petty grievances urged by disappointed persons against Mayor Gregory, but such opposition is harmless and beneath the high-minded and enterprising citizen. It is not a personal matter, but one that affects the whole body politic. The best interests of the public will be served in the retention of Eugene J. Gregory as Mayor. It would be a just tribute to a faithful and able public servant.