Show POLICE POt AND POLITICS DURING THE TIE CONVENTION of po 0 police police lice chiefs e ef which was wait held filled 1 in n Louisville let last week eeSt Major MaJot Sylvester Silv ter head of the W gl police pollee force f ores and a acid rid president of ottia ts UIe chiefs eh tion made some remarks shout about politics and policemen poll Chief has had a vast vest deal of with iaN ate h to subject Pad and it nifty j d that he is thoroughly familiar ta with It It t He I e I cordially disapproves of Dt C political peN eal poll police policemen et 1 men for foe he und ae ass all al poll police Ce chiefs who know their tM 1 under understand understand stand that nothing tends tend more faces re surely surel y to disorganise dl OnI a department than pol poi politics lUes Among other things tit Chief Sylvester r said Id We who have haft lied had experience Le the elimination of 01 politic pot frets IR fig the selection and arid con coa continuance or ot 0 11 and conservative men Wren in the public set ser service r vice a tenure of office ome for chiefs and su au superintendents superintendents so eo long Ions as tb the t c laws a and a ad regulations are ase carefully enforced a s pen pension lion sion for the widows and aDd children of those thole who give up their lives live In the cause a and nd for those who become beco disabled therein there n This we contend for because we know it will be better for all aU interested Municipal Municipal pal control reed it and aDd shape legislation to that end No matter how smell email the force the better results will witt follow making under node u prop proper er restrictions The ne tendency Is I in fa that direction dl lon and those thOoM with the tM en enactment enactment enactment of laws Ia ass I do nothing better for their states and cities than to proceed on 0 those lines line Good municipal govern government ment is I lethe the all an absorbing Question and andas andas andas as I have stat stated d the fife th foundation for lor it rests resu on a competent police organisation to continue undisturbed as long as u it re ro remains remains romaine mains maine such This Thu doctrine should be as asserted a ertell sad and education up lP te to those thoM principle plea will surely aurelY follow fonow The official who appreciates that merit bas haa its Ita b reward should be made mad to feel fees that his bit calling is an honorable one and ana a that he can An be advanced and continued ee in lit each nuch by honest endeavor sad aad we should bouM design to promote the merit math system lean The Washington Wa man has hu stated elated the case cue fairly and fot forcefully tor fully No Ifo man who has ball even casually observed the th local situation will disagree with him film The promise e has bas been made that hereafter the Salt gait Lake department will be kept out of the source scarce tit to which its Inefficiency may be directly traced All AU good citizens will m earnestly tar trope bop that the fife promise will se tie kept There rhe is J no reason why it should not be ba kept |