| Show WISE P PLATFORM olur PI PLANK AX The people of ot the state of or Utah and especially the tho people of or Salt Lake are arc under obligations to the tho county Republican convention for that plank which proposes to establish a a. police and Ore lire corn com commission mission lon to take lake control of oC the police an and rj fi fire re tic dc- c- c out of or tho han hands Js of oC cities of ot certain laes i-laes l and put them under the control of oC tho the whole people Wo We 0 dont don't know about the benefits to hf by doi do- do i rived dve tved J balanced against the disadvantages In the case ot of tho fire Oro departments But there thero Is la need 10 for tho the removal al of oC the police departments at least II In cities clUes of ot the first and second clan from Crom tho lire ba bad local machines which now so bad badly I control them One does not often look for tor reason or cr sense Inthe In Inthe the Tribune And there Is no new occasion for tor uch looking now no But when tho tiro Tribune Tribuna says the tha removal is proposed ed because the cities are charged with Inability to properly and ju Justly UY administer administer ad ad- minister the affairs of oC their thell police departments th Ith s Tribune Is squinting at the truth It Is aa as neat near the rac facts 3 as that paper papel ever gets gels and f Is fa to t that at tent to he be encouraged That t is precisely ly why liy the p police lice de- de department de t. t should be token taken n front from the control of ur th the L' L i r I f ciL city The rhe city has proven unable to run the de tie c t nt Two fo years ears are aco there was a s police an ore before It should hay hav fire bill the legislature an and passed Had that been beon done dont no chief of or police pollee I ISalt L Salt Sall Lake City would ever have officially propose tho the establishment of a stockade for fallen a municipal protected police bawdy house home It wa 1 not done and ond the cleanest and best bast and must most pl pro porous city of or the Union IB JR committed by the tho partin part palt In power poOl to an n abasement a mont of oC the police department depart epalt department ment unspeakably and matchlessly bad an and characterization of the whole Community which inot i inot inot not deserved cd Wh Why the police department of or Salt Lake ha Ja fallen so o lov low under the control of ot tho the Kearns part boss bosses bossee e that It cant can't run Jim Donald Donaldson tn out of or tin th city That t Is tho the limit of or Incompetence There has hM paver been in any city good or bad so disorganized to so o badly commanded and potent a police department as that of or Salt SnIt Laic Lak right now no It will be a kindness to the people any aiu aiuto to the state to relieve an incompetent city administration admin of or the responsibility ib lity It will be well Troll v make mako the department amenable le to the people an annot ant and d not to the bosses of or tho the city party part And it Is folly to talk about injustice in that thai action The department property Is not nol going t tc 0 be taken taleen awa away The people who pal paid for lor it an arc annot not going to lo lose lase c it nor it-nor nor the service ice of ot the police The Tho station houses will wIH nil all stay slay bore hore The men mel i will work ork for tor tho the city protect the city preserve a the peace of ot the city and answer to the people And the best po possible argument that this should b bo done that a police commission should be established established es es- es hed by the state is found in the confessed and published inability of oC the force forc a as at present presen t organized to discharge the duties that re rest t upon i It The city party admits the police pollee can cnn not clean ou out t Commercial street that It can not stop the street streetwalker streetwalkers streetwalkers walkers walker that It can not get rid of ot the kept men of oC the tho un underworld that It is is' s in tn a a. word totally Incapable Incapable in incapable In- In capable to discharge the police functions The rhe state should tako take the police pollee department out of oC tho control of or the cI city because the city under Kearns party patty domination has las admitted it can not mol make e a good department Geor George c Sheets Sheets and and Tom Torn Pitt and amI the I Kearn Ct j party part hierarch have c ma made e the new le legislation necessary Elect the le legislative candidates s pledged to a police commission lon |
