The record-union., 1892-04-04
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WORK FOR THE NEW BROOM
Very Sensible Words From the s'Sun-
CAV LEADER


Gay LEADER
Isacramento Sunday LEADER, April 3d.
The new police broom has begun
sweeping. The majority of the Police
commissioners took the unusual course
of refusing 10 allow Chief Rodgers to
elect his own Captain, and chose w. III.
Bradley. They also elected ten out of the
fifteen members OF the old police force,
the new officers being Ahern, McManus.
Nagle, Cox and Talbot.
The new broom began sweeping
promptly after the election Friday after
noon, for in the evening Chief Rodgers
and the Commissioners Captain went
into Chinatown and afterward ordered
Officer terral to warn the Mongolians
that no tan games or lotteries would be
permitted to go. The Chinese saw that
the order meant business, and the vari-
Gus haunts of fortune on l street We're
deserted last night.
The faro games, and, worst of all, the
hokey-pokey concerns, We're proceeding
as usual, but took the precaution, in
some case, of putting out lookouts along
the walks in the vicinity OF the games 10
give the alarm in case of any unusual
signs of activity on the part of the police.
1t was gwen out, however, that 10 favors
would be shown, and that the law would
have to be observed by one and all.
The cigar stores and numerous ped
dlers continue to sell tickets in the big
and Little Louisiana Lotteries, and well
as in those OF Mexico and Havana. The
little 10 cent tickets of the Chinese games
ought probably to be sat down upon, but
they are mere trif1es to the big dollars
that go out of town by the thousand every
month to the rich concerns without the
State. When this drain is checked the
man who accomplishes the task will be
a public benefactor, and will be worth
n M of n TO ri, -
city, because he will keep that amount of
com at home that is now thrown away
! into the relentless NAV of the big lotter-
les, never to return.
Hokey-pokey, or the grab-all game as
1t has come to be called, is probably the
most demoraliZing OF all the schemes to
exc from susceptible people their possess
sions. Beside 1t faro is a legitimate in
dustry and China lottery square deal.
Ii IS this game of all games where the
player is MORALLY sure to lose, and where
the dealers percentage invariably gets it
all. Hokey-pokey will have to vanish
like the rest of the iawIessness. which
has been corrupting politics in this town.
Chief Rodgers has rendered already a
more valuable service than his orders for
the suppression OF lawless gam bling. He
has notified every miserable scoundrel
who has been living from the earnings of
abandoned women to get out of town
iOith Win. 1H0 u1flS GOSS nave already
begun to migrate, and within TWENTY
four hours from this writing the few who
are left will either be in jail or else they
Will not dare to show their communicating
features on the public streets.
The new broom has begun to sweep
with amazing cleanness. Let it be hoped
that it will not wear out from well-doinp.
People are already wondering if the re-
form IS going to last, or whether it will
prove like SO many similar busters in
the pasta sop 10 catch the good will of
the righteous.
1t is said that some of the men who
thrive Oft the rental OF buildings to the
unfortunate women of lower l. street are
already trembling lest the law prohibit
ing the letting CT houses for immoral pur-
poses viii be enforced. There is even
talk about Vagging certain pompous peo-
pie who have been lording over the poor
creatures OF women.
There is an abundance of work for the
Chief to do, and the Leader believes that
he has the cou rage to do it.