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Show 3. THE BEE. contempt rather than reveal the identity of the parties involved. And it is safe to presume that the hero of that escapade has been his warm supporter ever since, and that he is with him in his present hour of need. But such a busy brain is continually ofthR working out problems more than those pertaining to the ordin ary discharge of official duties. This characteristic, this very activity of intellect, this appetite for influence, this desire for power, this scent for intrigue, this constant search for a cinch on somebody, this ever alert outlook for compromising occurrences, this knack for collecting such information, together with an extraordinary tact and an ostentatious discretion, could not fail to enlist a following. Yet this very disposition will destroy the harmony and the efficiency of any It will play on police department in the world. the men who are obliged to come in contact with it ; it will set one to watching another : it will beget suspicion ; it will cause confusion ; it will introduce discord ; it will result in a neglect of public for private matters ; it will lead finally to And the hisfeuds personal, bitter, deadly. tory of the police affairs in this city, for the past few years, record just such trouble, just such Has Mayor calamities, just such tragedies. Clark forgotten? Personally the writer is not opposed to Chief Pratt, and in an election for the isthe Difference, position would be strongly tempted to cast a ballot for him. But there is a differenc between the expression of a personal preference and the persistent effort which is being made to crowd Arthur Pratt down the throats of the Salt Lake people. It is a difference Mayor Clark should consider. Here is a city left almost defenseless. Crimes are being committed every day and criminals are escaping. Murder is done but no murderer caught. And Mayor Clark, like Xero, sits fiddling away his time on Lannans candidate while the peace, the safety and the good name of the city are endangered. It is furthermore believed that he will refuse to act, that he will make no further nomination for chief until Pratts case shall have gone through the courts. And whatever disposition may be made of it in the lower court, Pratt relies upon the services of John M. Zane in case it is taken to the court of last resort. Is it worth while to add that he and his friends are full of hope? But what a guardian of public interests Mayor Clark is prov. ing himself to be ' 1 It .is claimed by some of Mr. ouhe5" Controversy. Pratts supporters that his quar- - department have been caused invariably by the hostility of an unfriendly commission. There is no use in making such an excuse. These bickerings and agitations have been going on for three years. It was in 1S9J ihat Mr. Pratt was chosen chief of police. The Powers bill, creating the commission, was passed in the early part of 1891. In March of that year a board was named consisting of Frank Jennings, Bishop Empey and 0. J. Salisbury, all Pratt men down to the present, and W. P. Xoble who was not opposed to the chief at that time. Xot only was Pratt instrumental in having such reg -- bill passed but his handiwork was very apparent in the selection of the committee. Frank Stevens, another Pratt man, was chosen the following year to fill a vacancy on the boi rd, and Mr. Cohn, an ardent supporter of the chief, also became a member in the same way. The trouble In 189G Mr. Yarian was was brewing then. appointed on the commission and his criticism of the conduct of the department was the first open rebuke administered to the chief. But the fight has been a warm one ever since, involving litigation and controversies which Mayor Clark is now trying to prolong and perpetuate. The Diehl by which the clerk of tb police court was appointed dates D?ehiCl1 back to December, when the Dale ordinance abolishing Arthur Pratt was pending. Owing to the significant and somewhat sudden change of a vote, the desertion of a warm supporter of the ordinance, it was apparent that a Diehl had been made to see things in a new light. But the Dale ordinance went through anyhow, notwithstanding which another Diehl has just been made clerk of the police court. That there may be no mistake aboutthe Diehl of the city council in question, attention is drawn to the fact that it was pot the sprinkling deal, nor the jail deal, but the police court Diehl to which reference is made. While the phonetic distinction between a deal and a dale seems to be only a question of brogue, there is a wide difference of meaning, and, evidently, an occasional of opinion. But, joking aside, the appointment has every appearance of being just what the name sounds like. The ce |