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promise of giving Munn’s candidacy my support—and 
did so. 
At the meeting of May 9, Commissioner Murphy, know- 
ing that Mr. Munn’s appointment could then be secured, 
pressed for that result by moving that the salary for the 
counsel be fixed at $2,000 per year, and that J. L. Munn be 
the counsel. Mr. Shepard seconded the motion. Commis- 
sioner Meeker formerly proposed Henry Young. Mr. 
Murphy called for a vote. It resulted in 4 for and 1 against 
J. L. Munn; and he thus became the legal adviser of the 
Park Commission, with all the opportunities for good or 
evil which that name and position implied. 
POSSIBLE STORM BLOWS OVER. 
Immediately there were public mumblings of discontent. 
The previous December Mr. Munn had been “chosen” coun- 
sel to the Board of Freeholders at a like salary of $2,000 
per year. The Republican politicians and “the boys” of that 
party had-for a long time been berating the Democrats for 
having allowed, when that party was in control, one man to 
fill more than one remunerative office. Now that the same 
scheme, and for the same reasons, had become operative in 
their own party, the same principle was brought forward, 
and the question was raised as to why “the plums” falling 
from the Park Board’s table should not be more evenly 
distributed. These advance monitions of a possible party 
storm, however, finally blew over, when it was found that 
“what's done’ was not likely to be undone, and that the seal 
of fate had been set upon the hopes of many other lawyers 
who had been rated as of the faithful in party allegiance. 
Like the appointment of the commissioners, the thing was 
a thing of the past, and what was the use of continuing to 
mourn or agitate it, even though, to many aspiring attor- 
neys’ minds, the overturning of that overflowing milk pail 
had diverted the cream of some of the richest available 
county funds to one already gorged—considering the ser- 
vice he was performing—with the emoluments of public 
office. . 
