The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1894-03-18

Indigenous institutions OF Chicago" says
he. III hat which is peculiar about Chi
cago is the way in which gambling Is
utilized as an engine Of party finance.
Chicago taught the world how TO make the
dice box and the wheel Of fortune and
the pack of cards resource OF partisan
finance. 1t is ingenious and immoral
II is Simply the adoption by the mayor OF
the city of the methods and morals of
the policeman who lcvles bllckman on
street walkers on his beat. Between the
Matchmaking mayor and the hlaclinailing
policemen there is not a pin to c1ooSe
except the man IN the hica position is
much more to be condemned than his
poorer and humber fellow-citizen. Tha
principle in both cases IS exactly the
same,
Tie gaming house has no more rich.
to exist in Chicago than the woman has
to solicit vice in the public streets. The
law AGAINST gaming houses is much more
precise and more emphatic than than
which foralds solicitation. 1t IL inconvcn-
lent for the policeman to he perpemally
arrestinE street walkers and 1t is much
more agreeable for him TO make a drll
with her in consideration Of which h.
lines his pocket and she is left nintcr-
rupted 10 pursue her vocation. or course
II anybody asks for proof that any par
t!cular policeman took blackmaH the
proof IS not forthcoming. There was the
same universal conviction as to the nature
of the bargain which was struck between
Carter Harrison as mayor Of Chicago.
and the gambling fraternity. but the owl
deuce which should be produced in a
court Of law Is not fnrthcominE."
The mayor tho aldermen, the saloon
Keepers, the hcelcr everybody in fact who
Is anybody or anything In Chicago, has
has got q pulp when justice Is 10 be add
minlstered, excepting that abstract cnu-
ty Justice herself Justice has no "pull"
There IS no secret about this In the r1rco
The men talk quite freely about Il on
their beats, and as IT is with the patrol
men so IL is with those much higher In
station. There Is no secure reward for
ability and the most faithful service
counts for nothing compared with the as
tendency OF the spoils system.
POPULAR SUFFRAGE.
The author deals with popular suffrage
and shows how registration OF voters is
used by the politicians to aid thom IN cor
rupting the ballot "rhe most amusing
tales are told concerning the frauds prac-
ticed 10y politicians in registering electors.
Tramps and nondescripts of every descrip-
ton gathered together from anywhere and
everywhere, can be registered under any
name and with any adde's so as 10
swamp the resident electorate
IN one ward on one occasion the regis
tHtion agents, falling snort OF names,
registered AS citizens OF that ward every
man whose name WAS printed on the IA
mltar print representing the prize nght
between Savers and Heenan. None OF
these WORTHLESS mad been in the ward
few NJ them had ever been ia the country.
many Of them were dead; thut was i'm
material The politician had registered
them an citizens, and when polling day
came he had his obedient drove ready.
who voted regularly as Tom Saycr7 ana
j, c, lleenan, or any other Of the orna-
ments of tho British prize ring years
ago" Mr.. stead refers 10 the newspapers
MS the Watchmen OF the city and says:
"phey stand ON the hatt,ements, keeping
watch and ward while the citizens sleep.
and upon them, first and foremost. of an
men, lies the responsibility OF warning ana
apprlsing the community ms to the perils
which encompass It. Chicago, prolific In
al things, has been exceptionally so In the
production OF It's journals"
He names the English dailies as the
chief watchers, and says that the inter
necine war which exists between news
papers In most towns does not exist in
Chicago, for an the respectable papers
are ready TO combine for the common
good