Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-10
NO CHANGE YET.

NO CHANGE YET.
Gossip About the Rs.sr.d Change In the
once of Chisf ef Police.
SOME ASSERT THAT col. uooRr rusr 90 wurIx
HIS rRrKSps SAT- THAT NE WILL m RK-
rArSxD-NR- rERHY CARSON AND LAwrra
MOSS rSpoask TIE coLoxEl.
Col. W. @. Moore b still superintendent Of
police. Some Of his friends insist that he Win
continue to Be for several years 20 come. 0thers,
who can hardly be regarded a. enthusiastic sup
porters Of the present police administration,
declare most positively that Col Moore
and his once viii be divorced on or about
October 1. These latter are very emphatic In
their statements a. TO the interest which A.
torney General Miller 10 taking in the case and
they feel sure their aursl organs we're WORKING
satisfactorily when they understood the Attorney
1enerai to say that Col Moore's ofhcial days
| TEE COLONEL m sILRrr
Apparently lees concerned than any one else
II Col Moore himself He declines 10 discus
the matter In anv way, and goes on with the
regular order Of buuness at police hesdquar-
| tiers Just ~ though there were no such thincs
on earth - political ambitions or dark con-
spiracies.
Should there be public charges made against
him BY those who seek his downfall the colonel
would doubtless be heard from, but under no
converse freely. More than one OF his
many friends, though, hive whetted large and
ferocious- seeming blades, which they are nov
carrying around in their bootlegs. Knives are
so much more genteel than mud buckets. are
more easily concealed and can be operated
with Q smaller amount Of muscular exertion
IGNORANCE AT THE DISTRICT BUILDING.
Down at the District building no one knows
anything ct all about these removal rumors
The proposition to displacs Col Moore
has not, IL Is stated, been mentioned
by the Commissioners either individually
or a. q board.
Mr.. PERRY CARSON BKLIEvrs IN COL MOORE
Mr.. Perry Carson's interest In the retention
OF Col. Moore will probably be quiescent in lie
nature. Mr.. Carson believes In Col Moore. and
said today that he wae Q nice, clever gentleman.
but IL IL generally understood that Mr.. Carson
win not enter into cstch,ss-casch-ean struggle
with the Attorney General
Democrat though Col Moore H." said Mr.
Carson TO . STAR reporter, he has given
the colored people Of the District more recog-
milton than We ever had from any
other superintendent Of police. 1 say
4
de has given me ten appointments-fve police
officers, three patrol drivers and two host
lers. There is nothing small about that
f Cs, MI ~ they s are going to turn
democrat why are they not going TO make the
same fight on the twelve other men who occupy
positions OF importance and profit under the
District government This whole thing lie
surprise to me. heard IL said
that committee, headed by Fred Douglas,
had gone to see somebody shout Col Moore
but did not believe the story. / did not
know Douglass was 20 much interested in
District affairs.
LAWYER MOSS ENDORSES COL MOORE
Mr.. John A. Moss. the well-known colored
lawyer, was asked today what he Thought Of
the attack on the superintendent OF police and
said: 1T is the height Of foolishness for them
| to make such complaints, for I do not believe
that the District ever had more efficient and
fair-minded head OF its police department,
| than the present incumbent. The element
clamoring for bis removal consider 10 be the
dangerous GLASS of the District They have
made charges founded not upon fact.
and assert that the major is biased
and prejudiced, but know and have been in
position to know that Maj. Moore has not one
iota OF prejudice about him; that he treats
every class fairly and squarely and makes no
distinction between any Of the classes. These
fellows making the tight comprise the disturb
ing element-the indignation party-and they
strive to keep before the people the fact that
there is colored or negro class, and claim that
they have been ignored. Now, know that Mai.
Moore pays no attention to the ques-
tion of color. that the applicants
for promotion are fully qualified. and he rec
oInmends candidates for appointment on their
merit only and their fitness for the position.
community that they are colored instead
CT taking the broad ground that they
are American citizens and are
a dangerous class. The sooner they drop the
word color and, like the true adopted citizen.
devote themselves to citizenship the better il
viii be for the whole people.
The complaint arises out Of the Mellen-
Lomax case, which has been adjudicated by the
courts Maj Moore suspended the officer. and
when jury acquitted him restored
him to duty. When the Law scquit-
ted him the major could not do
should first obey and abide by the law instead
Of setting themselves up as opponents Of the
law against the decision Of legally constituted
court and jury"
| THE POLICE RKPoRrs.
Interesting and touching closely upon the
complaints now being made against Col.
Moore's attitude toward the colored people are
two OF three paragraphs from the annual police
IN 1888 Col. Moore wrote: 1T win be OBJ
served that Of the 2,o4l criminal cases reported
to the department 1882 arrests were
made, IS per cent Of which were con-
victed on the preliminary bearing, and that Of
the number aPprehended 20 per cent were
| colored, while the colored population IL
but one-third Of the white hobbinR OF
house, and sneak thieving were committed
by colored criminals In three instances
to one by the white, while forgery,
embarrassment and false pretensss- crimes rap
idly on the increase all over the country, and
requiring greater degree Of intelligence ON
the part Of the operator-vere the work
Of white people in the proportion
OF about two 10 one colored
The most exasperating and msanest work
with which the police have to contend u carried
on by sneak thieves, and the petit larceny table
demonstrates that 79l cases out Of 500
were committed by colored persona
The number Of persons arrested for carrying
concealed weapons was l9s, fifty white and
lSI colored, an increase Of about 40 per cent
over the previous year.
WHITE AND coLoRxD cRMIHAIs coNTRAsrKD.
In 1891 this paragraph occurs in the report,
"Of the whole number of casss Of arrest and Of
cases held, 81 aud q fraction per cent we're
against colored persona For this condition Of
Affairs the neglected state Of the
colored child and youth N iu
long way responsible, % h evidenced by the
fact that out Of 228 cases whore petit larceny