Show Ivi i EVEX CHIEFS S HAVE VE THEIR THEIn DAY Xo No matter how good a man he may have been as asa Y a subordinate policeman or as a member of ot the detective I 4 force Corce of Salt alt Lake George Sheets should not be continued In the office of chief because he Is he-Is Is not capable of or filling that place Ho has not the qualities for It It Is not an unusual thing Many a man has made k a an excellent policeman but has achieved a pyrotechnic oJ failure at the tho head hend of ot the department Probably no l bettor bet bet- et- et tor Q Illustration tr of that rule can bo be found than tha fn in Chief I. I 1 I i i.- i. I 1 t I J e ONell ONeil of tho the Chicago police force torce There was a man r who would discharge his dut duty anywhere As a policeman policeman police police- man he know knew what was expected and md required of or him He lIt rose in tho the service till ho became captain Incidentally tall tally he ho was the thc best hest Gaelic scholar In n tho the whole West VASt He Ile had hod many mant books and tho they were his diversion No Noman Noman man ever caught Captain ONeil O'Neil In a crooked piece of or work for tho rho excellent reason th that t he hc never ol wont went Into anything of th that t 1 kind Ono One nl night ht ho he wn was going down State Slate street when he ho enc Alderman Joe Toe rammer Lammers then thon a strong member of tho time city council Joe Too wa was drunk and It It was his habit when whon n In n wine wino to shove every eno cl else n oft off the tho sidewalk He shoved sho off on a n number numb n as ho approached Captain ONeil O'Neil who was In n a fairly good suit of citizens citizen's clothes And then he bumped Into tho lie captain ONeil O'Neil was tho time scrapper that er c every Irishman Is s expected expected ex ex- to be he In c case ce e o of imposition It was a part part of his training as ns a policeman And wh when n they thoy got through Alderman Joe Joo Lammers was a a. sight and tho he wagon was Os backlog backing ln up to tho the curb That light fight and the fact that ONeil O'Neil know knew who he ho was tackling made mado him chief of pollen of or tho the city of or Chicago An And from first to last there thelo has hal not been a greater failure in office than was he Tho The man was totally unfitted for fOl tho rho place There were a a. good g many reasons beforehand to to believe bf beforehand beforehand- that he would be just the man for the place But there were more reasons to doubt douht it after he had hod been given givena a trial trIa I. I So It may mat bo be with Chief Sheets People who know 5 51 that he was an excellent officer But Dut he Is s a a. aery very ery bad ball chief Whether hether It Is II an Inability to command or a weakness on the tho side of ot graft does docs not make so much difference The Tho man is a failure allure at the time head o of the lire deportment de de- There are better men than he on the force Maybe tI they thoy will make malto a n. better showing as chief and maybe mayhe the they thoy will not There is only one wa way to tell and that Is Tr Try them If they are aro as bad failures allures as he put them down and out and put up another man There Thoro are plenty plent of them And no mans man's I personal onal feelings are arc to tobe tobe tobe be con considered when It Is Ig a n matter of safeguarding tho the people or attending to their interests Members of the force do not give gl to the tho chief the respect re respect respect re- re which a successful management of his department would win from them The They like him personally but thy they know ho is not a n chief They Thet know many of his weaknesses e and ho he can not compel from them that spirit of service which the rl right ht man in his chair chall would receive lle Besides ldes that time the thieves are arc not afraid of him Men fen who live b by lighting fighting society have him clas classified as ns easy Whether that is because they can buy him or 01 fool him Is 15 not so much to the point What Is of ot importance Importance Importance Im Im- I is the fact that the they can pl ply their trade in spite of him It would woul be fatal to s select I ct a chief from outside the department Policemen have a big advantage over o men who have hn no training In n that service They know something some sonic thin thing of the undesirable characters that come here and those that are not dependent on honest effort for a liv liv- ing There are arc men in the department who should b be given the place which Chief Sheets has so signally failed t tb to fill fill It would be better for tho city better for or the Mt safety b of the citizens and vastly to the credit of the force |