The herald., 1896-02-19
ills SUPNELy Indifferent THE END IS APPROACHING
District Attorney DonneI Very New Chief of Police Almost
Slow Move in Sight
PEOPLES INTERESTS SUFFER COMBINATIONS ARE PL AYING
Policy the Head Of
Ought % Be Recovered Department
Dissatisfaction
to Mssrs House,. oigman,V
Dorna 1alok he People
A New Chief of Police Almost
in Sight
COMBINATIONS ARE PL AYlNG
The Two-FaCed Policy of the Head Of
the Department
II Causes q Great Deal Of Dissatisfaction
Among Nearly All Classes Of
the People

The impression has, during the last few
days, gained ground very rapidly that
there is going to be a reorganization of the
police department., which will also include
the head OF that unfortunate branch of the
city government.
1t is universally admitted that the pres
ent police administration of the munich
pality is unsatisfactory. Mr. Glass has
tried to stand in with all sides and with
both ends. He has tried to be hand.in-
glove with the goody.goody element and at
the Same time he has always desired that
the saloon men and Theodore Bauer should
look upon him as a nice man.
This is a very difficult string for any one
man to play, and more particularly is it
difficult when the party who tries to play
il is man with no more head-works than
is possessed by the party who now wears
the gold star of the chiefs office on his
| cap.
Through it all, though Mr.. Glass has
done very we'll. He has disgusted large
following that has until recently been very
strong at his back, it is true, but still he
has supporters, and it is needless to deny
that they are quite numerous.
To show how clever MIR. Glass really is,
! an instance can be recited. He has the un-
qualified support of Col. Harrison Gray Otis
Now any man that has Colonel Otis sup
port has to do in every particular as Col
onel Otis wants him to do or he will be
! placed on the retired list OF Colonel Otis
no half way friends. They must be his
friends from start to finish. On every pro-
position they must think with the Otiso-
nian mind.
The chief of police, however. is playing
in with Colonel Otis and doing politics with
hot position where he has to keep well un-
der cover or he will get burned.
Mayor RAIDER and Colonel Otis are scarce
ly working to accomplish the same ends in
politics. In fact they are opposites. Yet
Chief Glass is able to convince Raider and
Otis that he can serve them both.
One thing is certain. Hhe list Of thirty.
one policemen whom Chief Glass reported
to the mayor a short time ago was given to
his honor with view of dropping about
twenty of them from the departmental pay
rolls in order that the RAIDER political forces
might be reorganized to do effective work
at the primaries.
Mr.. Glass can make all the explanations
he desires to and he cannot dodge the is
sue. That list of thirty-one names he pre-
sented to Mayor RAIDER was not the SER
eeants' reports. nor was it anything else
except Ills OWL WTlttou
II That list Of names les submitted has caused
| trouble for Mr.. Glass. 1t so happens that
a great majority of them we're members of
the A. P. A., and the organization has
already called Mr.. Glass down. The in
| qury has gone up:
| "What does Glass mean?"
The only man who can give an explana-
| ton is Mayor RAIDER, and he does not, of
course, desire to give the correct one.
! In the meantime the friends of the en-
ployes of the department who are Oh the
list OF thirty.one, are striving to find out
what can be done to save their fayorites
from decapitation.
Despite all of Chief Glass efforts, the
listed thIrty-oue cannot be disabused of
the idea that tine big man has it In for them
and that at the first opportunity he will
ran Isn1a knife into their official life and cut it
The trouble that has arisen in the de.
| partment has caused numerous stories to
arise to the effect that Glass was about to
retire. Mr.. Glass. it is said, is weary OF
the cares of office and wants quiet life.
This being the case Major George e,
Gard is being very prominently brought
forward as a candidate. Major Gard
would be satisfactory to all of the political
elements with the exception of Colonel
Otis, and nobody seems to care much,
save Glass, whether he is satisfied or not,
Gard is an experienced thief-taker and
has, so his friends claim, the necessary ex-
ecu'ive ability which the place calls fer.
Ex-Sheriff John q. Cline is also being
urged by his friends, while Under Sheriff
Fl. G. Clements also has quite following.
Many people think that perhaps the one
man who would make an ideal chief is
Walter Parker, who is at present the
mayors very efficient secretary. He would
be brought to the front by a strong coterie
of prominent men were he 10 consent to
the use of his name.