People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-10-11
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lished the Doodle charges, had his
henchmen in the legislature trying
to buy votes for himself for state
printer at 500 per vote. o, they are
an immaculate crowd, and they want
a campaign based upon party records.
METROPOLITAN POLICE.
The metropolitan police system is
acknowledged to be a failure nearly
everywhere it has been tried.
1t is rotten from Chicago to WITCH.
ita.
The POpulist legislators who 60 to
Topeka this fall will fight the system
to the death.
The metropolitan police act was
passed in 1887 by republicans
There has been trouble in Kansas
ever since.
The board of police commissioners
and police government are wholly in
dependent autOcratic mOnarchs of all
they survey.
They are not responsible to the
cities, and do not report to the city
government. They do as they please.
Few men can resist the temptation
to corruption and deSpOtism that sur
round the absolute monarch, who re-
ports principally to himself, and cOun-
sells with nobody except when forced
TO do so.
The metropolitan police system is a
fraud.
Turning to pages 1850 to 1868 of the
house journal OF 1891, we find that
Governor Humphrey had much trou-
bic Win the police.
INVESTIGATIONS were MADE, and
the reports are somewhat different
from LndG vi Jne legislative commit
zee investigating charges against
Governor LewellIng anu Fred Close.
The COmmlGUee vi the RUE OF Hum
phrey tUunu sOmeLhlng rUUUen.
MI. bennlng, d member Of the
board VI ponce commissioners IN the
clIy VI AJCnlsOn, CerLllled that tip
ping Shops, gambling uenS aud the
HeeperS VI houses vi Prostitution were
regularly lined. Evidence eXplana-
tory Was gwen by Republicans, demo-
cratS anu prOnlUlLIOnlSJS. A jOlnt
Keeper ItSLlneu GhdG LIE ana Others
We're ordered ny Tile police 10 close
UAelr dUUrS during the visit of the
legislative CUmmIUUee.
Hun. b. L. NdggUuer, mayor Of At
cnlsOn, opened correspondence with
Governor humphrey III regard u The
nlgn-nanueu nIdnner III winch tile
laws were aDuseu ny Marshal Tote,
but the board Was reappUlnted IN
Spite VI their rOJLenueSS anu thus
humphrey DeCdme partner " the
corruption.
Ine ponce whose duty it should be
10 enlOlCe Tile law nau adUpUeu d Sys-
ZEN OF llcense lUr Crlme, protecting
JUlnUS, gdmDllng deus, and houses Ut
iI-Idme, where IL Was the duty OF
Tue police " protect tue citizens
NsalnsJ such things.
UlJlzens VI ALCnlSUn who testified
against The police were afterwards
seized by Tie police on various pre-
,txJS without warrant ana thrown
IdGo jail.
Houses of reputable citizens were
urUken into by the police and one
idaD ana wife arrested on d trumped
up charge, Simply because the police
l,neW thai the mayor had an affidavit
rom the man exposing some Of the
pOllce dOlngs.
The Governor wrote back and forth
a bali dozen letters, and finally Sug-
,gested to the mayor that the commls-
sloners were not under any Obliga-
lions to consult him.
Humphrey wanted the mayor to
make his complaint before the police
commissioners, and the mayor did so,
out the commissioners paid no atten-
ZION to the complaints.
The mayor again wrote the Gov
crnor referring to the fact that he
Id sent him affidayltS plainly show.
ing the following facts:
That since the appointment of the
police commissioners in 1888, that
there had been IN operation in the
,ty of AtchiSOn an average of forty
JJints; that during all this time the
.nief of police had SyStemically col
iected money from these Joints, anC
protect the proprietorS from arrest:
-aat the mayor had instituted an
Investigation in December 1889, and
yaat after exposure seemed newt
,ole the chief of police had paid the
city treasurer 81, 24s; that the board
" police commissioners disclaimeC
any knowledge of this irreguIarity
while the chief of police elaine,
hat it was done with their
knowledge and consent; that Larry
sum of money had been collecte,
which the board refused IN turn ovo