THE AMERICAN MAYOR.
Tho news that the Governor of Ohio has suspended the Mayor of the city of Canton, in that State—tho home, by tho way, of President McKinley— for not suppressing tho stcbl strikers' demonstrations, sounds rather startling to British readers. But in tho Constitutions of several American States it is provided that the Stato executive has the right to reinovo municipal officials if they refuse to perform their duties. "Tho power of a State," says Lord Bryce, "over all communities within its limits is absolute." Ho notes that it may grant or refuse local government as it pleases. "Let an Englishman," ho comments, "imagine a County Council for Warwickshire suppressing tho municipality of Birmingham, or a Frenchman imagine the department of tho Rhono extinguishing the municipality of Lyons, with no possibility of intervention by the central authority, and he will measure the differenco between the American States and tho local governments of Western Europe."
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16721, 2 January 1920, Page 8
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156THE AMERICAN MAYOR. Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16721, 2 January 1920, Page 8
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