Show fHE rHE POLICE DEPARTMENT Unless you oU aro arc obsessed with the notion that the Kearns Kearus party Is to be excused for failures which you Ou would not hot forgive in an any other party the Salt Lake Lahe police force must prove to you ou the mistake e of or giving Ing that party control of the city citro Since the Kearns party took office the police force has cost a good deal dea of mone money and has attracted notice only for or Its frightful failures or Its rank corruption Every ery department o othe of the city cIly save saye one has shockingly violated vio via both pledge and duty but this has made defense impossible I sible Actually it is the worst police department the city ever eyer has had and very much worse than anything I known in any other city the size o of I Salt LakeIt Lake Lake It has bas nad an exceedingly troubled d I life lire but has finally been captured 1 bodily by the Reams Kearns party managers and while they pretend they are Unable unable unable un un- able to direct It aright tho they simply make confession they do not propose propos to do what is right The policy of of I making it a money grabber a n. revenue getter gett r for the Kearns financial needs has hurt it greatly but the frank declaration de de- of its purpose as political Instead of public has lIas hurt It more Tho The community has come to toun un understand that the police force is not meant to preserve e order or prevent pre pro vent ent crime so to much as to coerce people peo pea plo into helping the Kearns part party And that Is fatal If It it were simply sImp a lessening of or the vigilance vigilance- and loyalty Joy loy ally alty of the police poUce force the harm would be big But It goes beyond that thaL The bad condition is not known mown to the people a minute sooner than It is known to criminals They are as fully aware ware of ot the spirit which animates the force and the motive which inspires commanders and men It Is their bus business iness to know knew And they take ad ad- 0 J vantage of It They become more daring because there is in less danger Crimes are continually concealed Knowle Knowledge ge of them is la suppressed by bya byI I a police force which Is shamed Into I denying what Individual citizens know to be true Tom Pitt Is an an excellent fellow In his Itis place place but but his place Is not at the head of tho the police department He Ho HeIs Heis HoIs Is utterly incapable to command themen tho the thomen thomen men to ferret crime to patrol tho city to cUr to do anything that is required require of an all executive officer in a police pollee department de do- He can neither establish n a policy or keep a n record He Ho should bo be remo c removed and supplanted by some I Iman Iman man who has line ability for tho the place It Itis Itis Itis is a shameful thing to confess that thai Tom Pitt is tIt the best Lest chief of police the Kearns party can provide Yet that Is what his retention In office means If they have havo a n better would they not put him In place It ItIs Itis Itis is ono One no confession which Illustrates the whole record of the Kearns party part In inthe tho the city That party has not given ghen good Oo service to the people And only onh the blindly Intolerant will contend contend contend con con- tend to tho the contrary It will not do to tire tho the people of Pitt so that Sheets can be reinstated and accepted with a hopeless tion George Sheets never should be e put back In tho the department Of course courso ho was taken out simply to placate those citizens who had been loyal loal to tho the Kearns party part but would not stand for such a chief It was the tho Intention to keep him in Ia the air until after tHer election elec dec tion ties and then put him back And that thatis is still sUB the en end striven for b by the man man- agers of tho the party But tho the mans man's resuming resuming re re- re- re sumin suming of all any sort of position on the force will be ho publication that the Kearns Kearus crow crowd makes bunco one of Its cardinal principles an and tho the police protected protected protected pro pro- robbing of strangers a n. thing officially to approve c Always keep In mind these those few facts acts when considering the tho return of George Sheets to power He knew know a bunco game had bad been worked knew know that hat ten thousand dollars had been stolen tolen from two In a n pretended pretended pre- pre tended ended gambling game knew who had taken aken the money helped them square the he trouble with the victims 1 by glIng gl Ing ng back one thousand dollars of the theten theten ten en to the strangers strangers and and let tho the thieves return to their freedom om of the city ity although one of them theta had per per- a a. police officer in the tho accomplishment accomplishment of or the theft and actually had tho the temerity to come into police headquarters with the losers You cannot explain away awat these facts You cannot excuse th them m as the Tribune has tried to do by saying they the theare are what hat other police chiefs do You cannot excuse th them m as lS tho the Tribune Trib Tx une uno has done by br declaring the victims were suckers from Scotland or on the he pretense that the theft should be bo forgotten because Republican county countr officials brought the law to bear on the he robbers robbers robbers-In in and out of the de de- de- de Mr Ir Pitt should be dismissed because because because be be- cause he Is totally total Incapable of discharging discharging dis dis- charging the duties of or that office And George Sheets should never be replaced replaced replaced re re- re- re placed for he has proven b by his acts an absolute unfitness for dut duty J There can bo be no more utter condemnation con con- of the Kearns Reams party than tho the confession Q by liy act that these two are the best and the only men the they have for the office of chief of police In no other othor way war could they more moro completely com corn pr prove pre ve e that the Kearns party part Is IsBn Isan isan an utter and disgraceful failure |