Show TAKE A STAND MARSHAL I The Tribune fairly shrieked yesterday as vo anticipated it would when we advised liirahul YOUNG to truce a firm stand ando and-o go down with colors flying in the event that tho Liberal ring should succeed in downing him I It must have required an effort on the part of the Tribune scribe even if it were possible to accomplish the feat to keep a straight face while writing down that hero is no Liberal ring But the scribe grows furious in his statement state-ment that we aro beseeching an officer lo checkmate his enemies by performing his duty However we can preserve our temper with grace we think on this question ques-tion We did not beseech an officer to checkmate check-mate his enemies by doing his duty but simply advised him to checkmate his enemies who are trying to prevent him from doing his duty by turning off men and hiring others in their place without his consent or advice We advised him not to permit himself to be hampered by having unknown men thrust upon him as police officers A chief of police above ail men should have confidence in his subordinates sub-ordinates and this he cannot have under the present method of dismissing tried officers of-ficers without letting them or the public know the nature of the charges against them and without even satisfying the chief of police that the men should go We advised the marshal to tako a firm stand notwithstanding these discouraging circumstances as his enemies were seeking seek-ing to cripple him in order to have a good excuse for letting him out He has been crippled from the very begining in this way We made no charges against the chief of police Wo are not blind however to tho attack that is being made on him so that we urged him individually to do what he would probably bo opposed by the ring in i doing and what is ultimately the mayors duty to see to Wo had hopes that the marshal mar-shal would go far enough in closing the front doors of tho saloons to show that be himself was willing to inforco the ordinances ordin-ances however the mayor might stand on that question cr C3 The salo ns were not closed however and we suppose that either the mayor the marshal or the police force is to blame Our advice to the marshal was to show that i the fault did not lie with him Yet wo happen to Know where the ring locates the fault and we suspect the reason for it I We are pleased to observe also that our remarks have prodded our contemporary into saying a few almost definite sits in s-its local columns And once more in a purely disinterested way we advise the marshal to show how he stands on the issue of repressing vice and Sunday saloons in this city |