Show I 10 p p 0 p TOO TOO MUCH POLITICS 1 l But the trouble the cause causo for the demoralization of the force is not attributable attributable at at- to the causes alleged b by r the tho Tribune The force is demoralized because because be bei i cause there is far too much politics In the control of it Tom Pitt is not nota a great policeman but give gi him freehand free freehand hand band in the organization and control of that force and ho he would make it vastly better In a no week Any man with the slightest suggestion of an executive ex e head could do o so Mr Mi- Ir Me- Me Ic Kenzle could have havo done it If U ho had been left alone but he le wasn't left alone He was shackled and throttled and Imposed upon until nothing ho he devised devised devised de de- de- de was at all sure of oC realization In action He was not DOt chief of police So long as the tho Tribune insists on its old error about politics being heing at bottom bottom bot bot- tom torn of the tho prosecution in the McWhirter l Ic ter case so long as It IL insists on tying ting the hands of ot the chief of oC police pollee so long will the force be he hopelessly de de- de- de moralized Tom Pitt selects a number of men mon for the force and the Tribunes Tribune's little I committee flatly flaUr and ami insolently refuses to p permit their confirmation The Tribune serves notice that any anyone one who is to draw ra w mone money from the city treasur treasury will have ha to get gel the Indorsement Indorse ment of or the politicians And then Pitt Is blamed for the bad condition of tho the force Thero There is too much politics in it now The Tribune demands more If It has Its way the force will bo ho worse but bul never better Look the matter over o Would It not have havo been better for the Tribune to tell the truth about tho the McWhirter case caso at the tho el very first Would It not have been better to then thon demand that the thieves thle be arrested and prosecuted prosecute e ed Would It not have hale been better to tell Sheets that he lie was either a a. knave o or a fool for fat fo his management of ot the case In headquarters headquarters and and either wa way that he was unfit for place Would it not have havo had a good effect on tho the force to mako clear to ever every patrolman patrol man that this ell city would not stand for grafting or In the hole holc department |