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To verify that fact I would like to refer you
to the article appearing in the Morning Sun of July 29,
1965 -- and I quote the headlines:
"Alien Calls Some Aides Incompetent. City Soli-
citor Defends Hiring of New Men in his Office."
As a part of that article it states: "Joseph
Alien, the City's Chief Legal Officer, said one
reason he has been obliged to add men to his staff was the
presence of dead wood inherited by him when he took office
some two years ago."
I submit to you, ladies and gentlemen of this
Convention, that the question before us is the identical
proposition that was propounded by Judge Henderson con-
cerning the judiciary when he stated that there were
political incompetents in the judiciary, and that there
was time for cleaning up the sorry mess. I submit to you
that the same