The sun., 1900-11-05
POLICE TO KEEP THE LAW
AND VIII TAKE NO ORDERS FKOH
TthMaNy TO-MORROW.
They Have Found Out That Tsmmany Il Not
Absolute and WIN ~" Less Srari, 80
shortly. and They Have Declared Their
Indepe ndencs = NJ DIAardeT at the ttLs.

II may be announced ON excellent authority
I that majority of the pairolmen IN IN" fol'e
| Department of Greater New York VIII ro'r
| the Republican ticket to-Worrow siiHiHh''
and that If Tainnlany fall l. depending upon the
! police for unlawful aid ON election. day It -
going to b. very much disappointed. " may
b" stated broadly that the police will not take
their orders from Iammany Han, aud mat
they will enforce. the Law IN the polling places
and about them without regard Ia the poil'l's
of any man who attempt, To break II. There
, will be precious liule intimidation and 30
bullying by the police The patrolmen have
decided that the thing for Item To do az thi>
election Is straight police duty. and nothing
else
The patrolnen have an association called
the Patrolmen's Benevolent 49, Dc.atiOn, which
isa mutual protective Organization and which
has In its treasury fund amounting 10 about
aiup,pp. The association j. "A strong one, ana
it is irpwned upon by Iammany Hall. because
the sense Of the orgaiiiZatiOu has made IN"
patrolmen less willing t. listen To IA" >is-
gestions Of the district Leaders than they wer"
before they had such a backing. Ever since
William = D-verv became Chief OF the fore"
In 1898 he has tried to break NJ thi- O'n"vn-
lent association. In this he has had the sup
port of the entire rammauy organization at
all times within the last -iS weeks the oni-
Gers oi the association have received word
mat an attack more extensive than any ~
ihos" made heretofore was contemplated "n
their organization, aud tnat It was 70 hr under
the personal direction or on" oi MI 'f"h'T
most ultimate friends
\ few day. ago an incident occurred IN tie
departm which has caused great many
Of the patrulln.u to believe that the power pf
Iamuany to punish policemen wa no' absolute.
Policeman Benjamin Ashley "d> ASSIGNEE on
one Of the days Of registration to guard pollihs
Al 1-fT
While the registration wa IN progress Ald"r-
man Gafney one OF the hlg Tanmaiiy n'sI III
me dl'irrt and CIoMd "t dthnlAihiE mrh
auc- that Ashley, IN ubriieuce to IN" Law aud
h- orders. cleared all but The election Officers
The Alderman was very indignant Gainey
complained a. the East lwcni iy-secnnd -'reei
station 4 plain cloths man from tl- station
to lot GiNnev 20 back Ashley refused The,
the plain clothes man said Your" mp aEain-'
Later while Ashley was on post an "N-conv't
named DonOhue, who has served ten year. for
highway robD-ry, began To auuor HIM t/l"y
ordered him 10 40 way pnno!u" Reused
This VAS about 23O O'clock IN the morning,
long after the hour ~ which tn" Polio" Depart
men, has decrsed that Suspicion, per-ons and
Ashley "clouted" Dsnohne On the following
day charge, were made against hlm and h-
was called before inspector Harley. Gain"N
stood bchind the inspector and prpmricd his
guest ionine Ashley was transferred to Staten
Island
Bnt within few days Ashley was brought
back. this time to "A post as desirable a. the one
which he bad when he offended GatYnav. The
news Of this spread through the department
aud with 1t went word that "Iaumany could
not any longer smash man simply because
he ob"yed the .aN aud hIs orders
So the patrolnrn are Informed AZ once that
Tammauv intends 80 break up IN. protective
ASSOCIATION, and also that no man can he pun
i-hed for doing hi, dutv. All Of I'll" patrolmen
understand this, and as they are NOT satisfied
Win the waV they haIs been treated since
laInmanY cam" INTO power, they have made
M their minds not to do i's dirty work or
tho 100 patrolmcr in the department II was
declared YESTERDAY bv an officer of the assocH-
tlou that $500 n laa.' are for the Republican
national and state tickets or the other- about
,7oo ar" men who were appointed for purely po-
lifiCal reasons These have snap assignments
In the courts the oitv departments and on easy
details The maj aJori'v Of the men who do
straight pniice du'yt patrolllng the suest'.
pie II NAV ha stated that an investigator who
rscentN undertook I" ind ont the sentiment
of the force, iutervieDei twenty patrolnriI.
taking them as he met them. Of those sixteen
declared that toy we're opposed to Tannlanv
Hall and said that they wished the depart
mont could Toe rrprgaul2ed under state con-
troll Twelve ~ the sixteen added that They
wished trat such II man a. RooSevelt had the
force The "ther ipur men were Democrat
Three Of them said that they We're going 70
vote under the star because they ALWAYS had |
Onlv one man of tho t~entr said tHat heWas
satisfied with the system now prevailing He
DEPARTMENT because Roosevelt was too fin
~ on. ., The polic. station. in New yorr
twentv-two out OF sixty men in u platoon |
are wearing OdeIl buttons
All Of these facts are known and there are |
other reasons which will streng, hen the polite |
In their determination not To do any dirty work
for IamnEhy io-in3rrow. " may be stated |
with ger's'niy hat here NIll not be any 1iot,,s
trokers leutenants or any one else unless |
they are ont In force strong enough 10 overpoWer