Show r Y t nl ri riT I HE lIE IR WELT WELL nUTt BUTY BUT nUT BUT J T i 0 o 6 0 t i At that time he made Mr l McI McKenzie enzle chief of or police selecting him from Crom a place wholly outside the ranks s of the heelers heeler and naming a man not in the smallest wa way Identified with politics s. s But Dut poor McKenzie was not even a a. citizen of or the United States and could f a. a not remain In the chagrin at having s been detected ii in putting a 0 British subject on gUa guard d Mr li Ir J Bransford was compelled to sur surrender His ba bad judgment judg- judg 11 ment meat in selecting his chief him pu pm wholly at the tho merc mercy of ot the hard men and he ho will never be free again Of or course COUrE so o far as Tom Pitt himself is concerned J he is not a dangerous I man He lie is weak but not de tlc wicked He ito is a a. willing and easy tool in Ia the hands of the kings of or the gang He lIe will be potters potter's cla clay for them and the they will shape him In whatever fashion they choose The one thing about him Is that that he will not resist His HIa tastes arc are those of the crowd which he lie obeys Their methods are arc his methods Th Their ir purposes purposes purposes pur pur- poses are arc his purposes He will initiate nothing but in every ery vicious scheme of their campaigning they will Wm find him read ready and willing and willing and uncommonly able able to to assist them In saying these kind things of Tom Pitt we wo do not mean to be he misunderstood Of course the new chief chic 19 Is not as good a man as ns George Sheets wIth Sheets with the exception ex cx- of or the tangle In which the latter Jatter became Involved involved In- In with the McWhirter robbery Pitt lacks much of the good habit of or Sheets much of or the business acumen much of or the clear head and resolute character And yet et left loft to himself ho he would not be a bad nor a dangerous m man n. n It is only because he e is Js constitutionally fitted for obedience e to tho the gang that his peril to the community is found Mr Bransford was nominated under ply tIt tin tin- same conditions as tho those e agreed to by the American party part candidates for Cor the council He sub subscribed to the tho same pled pledge c by br his action in accepting after the Tribune ha had publicly warned him that the matter of pledging the candidates to obe obey the thc city committee was covered cell In the pl platform and the tho report of tho the committee on onor or organization He mn may not have havo intended at nt the same sam time to keep the pledge and oh obey y the tho committee |