The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-26
A HIGH OLD TIME.
MUNICIPAL TROUBLES IN LOUIS
VILE, Kentucky.
Fight on the Part of the Republic
cans to Remove the Democratic
Board of Public Snfety-A Climax
Reached.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Aug. 25.-The
fight OF Mayor George D. Todd, Repub-
lican, and the A P. A. Republican
board of aldermen to remove the Demo
cratic board of public safety, which
controls the police, fire and charity de-
partments of the city government,
reached a climax this afternoon, when
the aldermen refused to obey an in
junction restraining them from taking
further steps in the impeachment pro-
ceedingS against the board of safety.
The injunction was granted by Judge
Toney, who Immediately dissolved it,
but he stated that under the code it
would remain in force for five days.
The aldermen at once refused to obey it,
and took a recess. After this was over,
the board of safety was denied attor-
neys and the impeachment case pro-
ceeded. Judge Toney was informed of
the state CT affairs, and issued rules of
contempt against the aldermen. The
latter locked themselves in to prevent a
raid, and a sheriff and his deputies
were forced to wait on the outside, as
the judge did not want the doors broken
open.
A special session of the council was
called, and a trolley rugged up between
the two wings of the city hall in which
the aldermen and council chambers are
located. Whisky, beer, cigars and news
We're passed to the self-imprisoned
aldermen. In the meantime Judge To-
ney revised his contempt order, and
gave the aldermen until II o'clock to-
morrow to show cause why they should
not be sent to Jail for refusing to obey
the mandate of the court. Mayor Todd
assumed control Of the police force and
sent word to Chief Taylor that only his
orders were to be obeyed.
AT $50 o'clock. Colonel A. H. Stone,
attorney for the prosecution. and Mayor
Todd announced that word had been re-
ceived from the aldermen that they had
impeached Colonel Robert Tilford, D.
E. O'Sullivan and Charles Wilson, the
members of the board of public safety
When the proceedings at the city hall
became known about town, a mob gath
cred at the city hall and blocked the
sidewalks and corridors of the big
building. The majority were members
of the A. P. A, who are said to be
looking forward to places in the police
and fire departments.
At o'clock it was given out that
Mayor Todd had appointed John Seary,
G. NJ Crawford and William Evans
members of the board of safety. At
ZIP o'clock the aldermen had confirmed
the appointments. A little later the
new officials proceeded toward the al
dernen's chamber, headed by Sterling
Edmunds, an A. P. A. leader. Ed
munds gave the A. P. A knock ON the
door, and the iron bars, tables and
desks with which it had been barricad-
ed to keep out the chief and his
friends, were removed. AS soon as the
door was opened, the chief and his
men made a rush for it. and forced
themselves into tho alder1nanic cham
q CT io-f1t hn oh OF
then cited the aldermen to appear to-
morrow before Judge Toney to show
cause why they should not be punished
for contempt OF court. The aldermen
then adjourned. None of the members
of the deposed board of safety were in
evidence Their offices on the second
floor of the, city hall were dark, but
inside was a. SQUAD of police instructed
to deny admitfance to all intruders,
including the new board.
At sos o'clock General Thomas H.
Taylor, chief of police, received a note
from Mayor Todd ordering him to re-
move the policemen stationed in the
office of the board of public safety and
turn the rooms over to the new board.
General Taylor replied that himself and
force were at the mayors command to
preserve the peace, but declined to re-
n owe the policemen from the office as
they were placed there by the board of
safety, and he did not recognize the
new board appointed by the mayor
AT $3.50 o'clock the Offices of the chief
of police were dark, but in each were
a number of police captains, lieuten-
ants, patrolnen and detectives.
The charges on which the members
of the old board of safety were i'm
peached are failure to suppress pros
titution and gambling and usurpation
of authority.
General Taylor was removed from
the Office of chief of police at 9 o'clock
and Robert Cunningham, a livery
stable keeper, appointed in his stead.