Show oI n SOX lU FOK Fon It Jt didn't seem em nece necessary sary for Cor Chief Sheets to furnish an any additional proof that tho the police department should W j r reorganised l' l lild but hut he did it H. The record was bad enough b but t the hc conduct of or that In tho the recent trouble between the street car men and the tho company compau provIdes provide a an additional if Jf unnecessary n reason Chief Sheets Is glaringly incompetent Ho lie didn't t know kno there thero was a strike He lIe was probably time the only onh man in Salt Lake Lako wh who didn't know ow it H. t Above all aU others he was vas the tho ono one man who should have known known of it It if It he had known anything and should have saved tho the city tho the shameful experiences of Sunday Sund Sun Sun- d day y when law an and order were thrown to the winds Is b blittle byN lIy by N little bunch of ot rowdy scalawags totally unconnected with tho street car mens men's organization with no Interest In th city and anti with no motive other than a desire t to o fre create t a a public disturbance wreck wreck property and assau assaul t men laen It was an element clement so trivial in the tho life Ufe of or the eft city I so Inconsiderable as to numbers so discreditable of or purI purpose pur pur- I pose and anil so easy of control b by a n good police force that Jt It Its success in stopping for Cor t two o o whole da days s 's sIn I In a a. city of eighty thousand people is a n scathing commentary commentary com com- on the quality of or tho the man tho the Sheets party part Insists in insists insists In- In on maintaining at nt the head of the department After Arter apologizing for the chi chiefs chief's rs r's whEn Inaction Inaction when car air windows Indo were being broken when stones and eggs ere Tere being thrown when a assaults were being committeE committed In Main street with street with tho the statement that the chief chic know there thel was waSl a strike In progress the Tribune brings brines tho the following lame Jame defense for 01 the tho head of or Us its political party part There Thoro has been some criticism of tho the way W that the police force handled tho the strike and so far as ns this criticism was honest and candid It had weight But Bm tho situation was a difficult one It was not possible for the police to take sides Inthe In tho the controversy nor to do what some thought ought to be he done For the force toreo Is comparatively cJ small and it was taken unawares Few expected the tho strike to culminate so 50 suddenly so that ade nde- adequate quate preparation had not bE been n made malle And Anti after all all there was but bm little hurt to to person n or prop prop- crt erty And nd alls all's well that ends well YeT Very little comes out of or the Tribune these days that isn't In some way lunn funny And tho the humor of 01 the above quotation quotation lies in the lines referring to tho the W way that the poll police pollee e force handled tho the strike Of course the tho police force orco didn't handle the strike It was not permitted to todo todo todo do anything of the kind Barring the good won work worl of 01 Sergeant Sergeant Sergeant Ser Ser- geant Hemple who will probably be he disciplined for pernicious activity members of the tho force were obliged to o respect the tho politics playing purpose of tho the near- near chief lint But is it Jt not nol sufficient Do not the tho people lo of or t Lake ako realize that tho they have hail had enough of an nn o Cl so o totally Incapable incapable even even en if IC there bo ho no worse objection tion ion to him hint T Is his failure of duly always 1 to be excused on n tIle the ground that he didn't know nn any better letter Shall the city Ity be he Jon longer er subjected to the the peril of a ahead hend of oC department depart depart- depart I ment FO so 0 callous to the dictates J of or duty so so regardless of ofIs his his Is obligations so cn o shamefully der derelict In his conduct o of the he police Cor force c This strike came came on unawares S Something ng equally equall demanding demanding de de- c- c manding m good police service er is likely to arise an any day Tho ho I constant demand of capable service Is here always And the helplessness of ot th the department under that head ll heads Is s evidenced in tho the repented repeated hur burglaries In the public as assaults assaults as- as of or men nail and women on tho the streets and the constant coming oming comin to light of or new now cases of oC robbery by bunco men whose hose activities have h been ln protected by hy the chief ci Of course the life of 01 tho Sheets party may demand deman the th ie sacrifice of the tho city's best Interests to tho the perpetuation of f that man in power But nut considering how little value It all Is to the city isn't It t about time to make a n. change |