Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-11-17
THE WAR GOES ON.
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citizens Of New York. 1 protest. as my
people have charged me to do. against
the habitual insult. the persistent mem
ace. the unutterably defiling contacts.
to which day by day. because Of the
base completely Of the police of New
York. with the lowest forms of vice
and crime, they are subject.
II call upon you, SIR" concludes the
bishop. ito save these people who are
In very real way committed to our
charge. from a living hell. defil.ng,
deadly, damning. to which the criminal
supineness of the constituted authori-
ties. set for the defence Of decency ana
good order. threatens to doom them
Mayor Van Wyck at once replied 10
the bishop by letter and said he had
passed the bishops communication 10
the district attorney and promised TO
secure hearty and efficient co-opera :
ton by the police department with All
who are working to do away with pun
lie violations of law and decency.
The committee OF five appointed pp
Mr.. Croker to suppress vice held IT'S
first meeting in Tammany Han. AT .
O'Clock. John Kellar. one of the com
n.i,tee invited every citizen or New
York to lay before them any evidence
that will help suppress the dives OF
prove public officials guilty OF conniV-
ance with criminal vice.
"Spaic no one" was Cookers order
TO the committee.
Chief of Police Devery has men OUT
IN close the dives He declares the
town viii be closed tight.
Fire Commissioner John }. ScanneH'
who was appointed as one of the MEM
hers Of the committee. declined to act
for the reason that his duties as IRE
commissioner are so numerous and press
ing as To preclude his service on the com :
mittee. which he said requires the tih :
of the best men,.
Richard Croker after Il consultation AT
the Democratic club. today. with ram
many leaders said. referring 10 his state
ment, Yesterday, about Tanmany's war
on vice:
II could not stand for n moment and
say those things nor would the orsan-
iZltion stand by me If ! did not mean
what | said. The descriptions In the
newspapers nj the conditions IN the East
side il they are true make Dad snow
ing in that part of the city. We do no.
favor any such condition OF affairs. Any
politician or police captain or anyone
else who is responsible for this condition
ought 10 be- removed and prosecuted
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committee nj five appointed. YESTERDAY
to invite 4 representative" Of every news
paper in The city To go around with thH
committee in its Investigations so that
they can see everything and know jas
what is going on.
col. Gardiner said: Il started n move
mcnt in this direction some weeks ago.
have had consultations with Bishop Pot.
ter and DIR. Huntington in these cases
and ha vc had the cooperation of the So
ciety for the Suppression of Vice.
Bishop Potter smiled when he wa;
asked about the move Tammany had
made 1t WAS all very clever, very clever
indeed said he.
The men who interested with
Bishop Potter in the work at the Pro
Cathedral in Stanton street. were equally
reticent. Inc Rev. Robert l.. Paddock.
rector Of the Pro Cathedral, said:
we shah watch developments down
here closely and hope the improvements
promised are at hand.