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Show B JUSTIFIES THE RECALL. H The recall has been tested to good purpose in Seattle. Some H' time ago the chief of police of that city was the subject of severe Hv condemnation. He was known to be a "grafter" and open charges H , were made against him. Then tho people, realizing that the head of H I their police force, was a man dishonored, requested the mayor to m investigate the accusations directed against the officer. They were H . wot by silence on tho part of the mayor, and then they redoubled H I their demands for an investigation. Again they failed to receive H a response and then they acted in a more effective way. They poli- H lionod for an election, including the mayor in their recall, and when H the election was held the mayor and his chief of police were driven H from office. Hj Since then tho power of the courts has been invoked and, pro- H cccding with the slow and cumbersome machinery of the legal pro-H pro-H v cess, finally a vcrdiet has boon rendered finding the former chief H . of police guilty of accepting a bribe of $1,000 in protecting one of H the lowest dives in Seattle. There are sixteen more charges on which H the chief is to be tried. H Had Seattle been without the power of the recall, that city would have been afflicted with a polico' control in league with the B criminal class, until, in the course of time, another regular election ' be held, by which time the grafters might have been so firmly cn- H trenched as to be invincible, party politics and the mass primaries H helping to maintain the rogues in power. As it was, Seattle purified H itself with the first sign of corruption, and now the courts have H spoken in confirmation of the justice of Seattle's verdict. H That is what the recall has done for Scuttle. It can do as much H For other cities. |