The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-10-30

When the IETELLldENcER took thu
liberty to remark thatthe present Mayo
is an unfit person to act as Judge OF TIT
Police Court, the Register said some very
wild things about the indecency OF the
INrELLlGENCER's assault. The 1NTELLI
oEScER was regarded by the Register al
being vilely partisan and meanly per
sonal. Now the Register comes arounC
to about the same view, as witness the
following from that paper Of yesterday
The conflict between the Mayor, who. ,Gisr
acts IA Police Court Judge, anu inc Ghiel o
Police IL very much 10 be regretted. ThAt Tue
Chief has ground for his complaint cannot bC
Tierc can be little incentive to the officers ia
do their duty with the knowledge before them
that the Offenders they arrest Will probably mol
meet Justice because Of tho extraordinary !Gnh
euCy OF the Judge before whom they VIII DC
iFiel. In our local columns will be found Il
case In pOluI. llisVery clear that tho offenders
therein were guilty Of the misdemealorS win
which they were charged. but tho Judge, upon
Alechnicallty II Il SAID, whiCh ~ Dest IL very
lImSy, dismissed tho case.
Tho responsibilities Of the Judge Of Police
Court are not light, Ills functions hre very I'm
poFlAnL to the preservation OF the order Of the
city. lie should DO fully acquainted win Tue
law and should be firm enough 10 enforce II I'M
partially, and regardless Of hrs own feelings and
sympAthlgs. II lie does less than this no ll0lus
out u bait 10 wrong doors 10 cohtilue III thelt
practices. They naturally soon learn under
such conditions 10 have no respect Tor, or lear Ol
the law, which they sec Is not enforced
This because the Mayor pretended to
believe the story OF q notorious prosti.
tutc, the keeper OF a notorious place,
that she keeps a boarding house, and
that the persons caught in her house by
the Chief Of Police are her boarders.
Note, also, what the Chief Of Police, as
quoted by the Register, says on the sub
jeCt:
There Is not the shadow Of doubt but that
tho charges are true. Why, on que occasion! the
many words, that she was keeping q h0llle ~
Alley @, aud added that she expected she would
DO brought before HIN at some time. When !
called his attention to this fact III morning, he
laughed, aud made Il remark which do not
care 10 repeat The thing Is All outrage. There
Il no use In tho police attempting % DO thSir
duty, II the cases, even when backed up win
undOubtCd evidence, are 10 10 thrown over:
board, Ihg WuUlo matter DSCuHeb u lhGH'
have protested again and again, but 10 no ellGcl,
aud scarcely know what course 10 pursue
Tho farce referred 10 by the Chief OF
Police began when the Mayor was made
Judge of the Police Court, position
which brings into conspicuous promi-
nenco his intellectual and moral weak.
ness. In consequence Of these weak.
nesses the law.breakers who are brought
before him have no respect for the law
he Is required to administer, however
much they may rejoice in his contemp'
tuous noncniorcement OF the law aud
the resulting discontinue Of the police.
The scandal Of this mans conduct must
10 very rank to reach the Register Office.
The people arc primarily to blame, for
IL was the people who made him Mayor
and, not surieited with himin one term,
gave him a second. Council isreSponOl.
bic for what he does as Police Judge, for
the Council gave him his opportunity,
SHINING against light.