Show I TOM PITT BLUNDERER Tom Torn Pitt is a joke As As chief of p police he hc Is tho the most abject failure ever foisted upon a suffering city He Ho is the tho most incompetent man that ever mer sat In tho the chair chah If Ir that man manis manis manis is a fair type of the Kearns party officials no wonder the party blunders blun blun- ders Ho He is ia tho tile chief chiet of blunderers Tom Toni haa has an idea that the public has no business to to know when hen a a. crime Is committed He proceeds on the tho fatal theory that it Is none of the tho publics public's business It is a matter mat ter entirely between him and the rob bers hers If he can catch them so much glory for Tom It If he lIe cant can't well cant well then they get et away aware And that Is all there thero is to it Tom Torn pretends that It would be bad for the papers to print reports of at rob rob- even tho most startling He Hess says s. It gives the thieves pointers Yet that thalis Is a bad excuse They know what they did dill with the plunder er They know which way they went went and and all about It It Tom Torn doesn't know and so keeps silence The papers coul couldn't nt add anything to tho the information possessed possessed pos pos- Bessell by the thieves All the papers pa pers could do would be to warn tho the thorest thorest rest of the tho city an arid and part of the world that a crime had been com corn It would have tho the effect of or helping find the criminals before the they got out of tho the country entirely The papers did more to trace Sullivan Sullivan Sulli Sulli- van to run him down and antl capture him antI and bring him to justice than an any other agency in the world And nine nin times out of ten that result will follow fol low a no perfect frankness with th the tho newspapers The Kearns crowd can not get away from fron responsibility for Tom Pitt He lie Heis Heis lieis is one of their things He Is not Is-not no meaning to sa say a n. hard bard thing thing the tho cr very worst chief of police that ever eyer eier wore hair And And anI only a a a. party part of dunderheads would keep him In Office ce |