Show J I ASHAMED OF ITS WORK Here arc aro some beautiful extracts t. t from a Thursday c editorial In the Tribune Tri Tn- i i bune touching that one work in iu which 4 it has been distinctly successful the successful the demoralization of or the police department department depart depart- J ment i We wre have ha been unceasing in Iu our demands for a reorganization of that department for the weeding out of the useless an and aud rotten timber and for making the department thoroughly up to date alert efficient an and the pride of the cit city We Ye have not been able to effect the tho results that we would desire in this matter but at atI I least st our s1 shirts are clear we vre have performed our full dut duty have ha shown the evils that exist and called for remedies unceasingly and with what vigor Igor we were able to command o 0 But Dut we have not failed to give notice no no- tice nor do o we now fail fall to give gie notice no no- thee tice that we wC decline to be he held responsible re re- re- re r. r for the thc Inefficiency o of this department we decline to defend it from the just assaults which Its lethargy lethargy lethargy leth leth- argy invites we decline to stand for an any such buch a police department as we i have In this city cily now and ancI repudiate it it t emphatically entirely I Considering the fact that the Tribune Tribune Tri Tri- bune is the one an and only cause of or police police po po- po- po lice demoralization this disclaimer this attempt to shift the responsibility ity this repudiation is about the clearest instance of Tribune infamy 1 so far known No 1 one can clear the Tribune of or responsibility re re- re- re for the present condition of t the police department Whatever i n may a be e said sallI of George Sheets he is at least a a. capable officer He can c catch thieves thie when he wants to He Heir L. L ir r can command men He is not a n. fool and he does oes know that business i.- i. t V When hen en the McWhirter loIe robbery occurred oc OCt t if the Tribune the anI only paper S in town that had the story had bad printed pr the stor story Sheets would have haTe i- i been been- at the llie head of or the department s1 t teXla today and the bunco game would have ha been too dangerous to defend i. i if Whatever arrangement he lie may zany have If had with the Tribune for a sharing in inthe In the tho spoils or of ora a protected police t game he would have been held to a aI aright I right handling of that case He would y bave have caught Donaldson and Bell an and andr r and aud the O'Briens before midi mid mid- i t nIght Light because he would have known mo t C. C that the Tribune was as going to give gie J the thc whole big startling astounding story of the robbery to the public in inI inthe the morning But the Tribune made ma so r party to a silence that was I criminal criminal besides besides being unfair to readers read read- j ers ers era who pay 11 it to print news when 1 t. t Its silence committed committee 1 lk it to a wrong course and Involved lef in a a situation from which lie will never never ne emerge with clean r skirts And nd from from th the dayS day'S a v. v 1 en the tle other othe C. C papers got the story and printed it il the Tribune declared there was no robb robbery rob rob- b bery bry ry that there had been no bunco poker palter game that the never neve had that they were suckers from Scotland that they were spies hired by the Mormon church to come como here from Scotland 1 Yard Yar London to compromise th the American party parly chief of police in SnIt Salt SaltI I L Lake i It called the prosecution ot of those thos men the criminal proceeding instituted ed a tI conspiracy It rallied every sill silly friend of or intolerance and made th the church hatred cover the sin of ot th the chief and the crime of the paper And finally filially because the people would not believe its reiterated lies it retreated and drove e Chief Sheets out of at r office though office though he carried a mayor with him It stripped him an and discredited him after a year ear of ot tb the silliest sawder that even eyen a soft paper pape has ever ever permitted In its columns The department was demoralized Poor Mr McKenzie au an excellent man but not a citizen of the United States State was then made chief of police poUce and 2nd andL 1 L L. when Tho The Republican called attention to his lack of or eligibility be he resigned of or course And every everyone one in town pointed to the Tribune and the completeness completeness com corn of or its ork ork for the d destruction destruction tion of or the police department Since the appointment of Chief Pitt the Tribune has if ir possible been even more silly than it was vas at the begin ning It picks out an inferior officer and aud hol holds s him responsible for the TrIbune Tribune Tri TrI- i bune devastation Has the TrI Tribune unc in its subscribers even half a dozen ozen men who believe its sill silly twaddle It certainly 1 la not fooling any considerable number The department is ln as bad badcon con condition as the he l Tribune Trib declares hut but its every e failing falling Is Is- directly traceable to the disreputable of or that paper from first to last It has lias made dut duty a jol joke jolce e and political pull pun the one measure of approval in the depart depart- ment meat It has a chief of its own choosing choos choos- ing and lug aud a aver very incapable and hopeless hope less chief at that Conditions in this cit city are bad The police department is a joke where Itis it itla la is not injurious It doesn't pretend to efficiency But its every weakness is traceable directly to the mad intrusion of or that paper Its suppression of or news its lying misrepresentations of facts as plain as 06 Ensign peak its ts demands de mauds mands and its dictations its dictations its whole course of intolerable butting In has sacrificed the good name of the city the repute of men the fortune of citizens and the hope of or Improvement Improve Improve- ment mont It is impossible for the Tribune to escape responsibility Any Auy time its party part gets tired of or tho the condition in which the department has bas come let that party part divorce orce itself from Its Us malevolent partnership with the Tri Tri- bune Let it treat that paper with Justice justice no no less and no more Let it tal take e out but the hopelessly bad bad chief I and aud put lUt in a man who can do the work no matter to what party he may belong It Is pretty clear now that they have not a no competent man in inthe inthe inthe the American party Then let them get a man from the Republican party Jim Devine ine would make a good chief Th There re are a dozen other Republicans either one of or whom would handle the force properly and would make merit tho the measure of or grading An Any of or these men men g r sl o n news to all n the theY news newspapers papers alike J- J a anil ll impossible suppression and blackmail b the Tri Trl- bune hune I Too The shameful butchering of the de department de- de e- e v. v would lie be p punished nn and the even een more sha shameful elul disclaimer l of or that I crime by the Tribune would be e branded brand brand- rand rand-I ed as the Jie i 1 it is |