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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 eonld then be secured, 

 pressed for that result by moving that the sahary for the 

 counsel be fixed at $2,000 per year, and that J. L. Miinn be 

 the counsel. Mr. Shepard seconded the motion. Commis- 

 sioner Meeker formerl}^ 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 Eepublican 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 remumerative office. Xow that the same 

 scheme, and for the same reasons, had become operative in 

 their own party, the same principle was brouLght 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. 



